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Cleppe: EU Cannot Justify Rigidity in Trade Talks with UK
March 27, 2018
Pieter Cleppe of the think tank Open Europe argues that EU officials are responding to reasonable proposals from UK Prime Minister Theresa May on opening up specific sectors to the EU in a broad, post-Brexit free-trade deal with a "rigidity" that cannot be justified given the EU's relative flexibility in trade arrangements with countries like Switzerland.
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ECJ: Poland Violated EU Rules on Air Pollution
March 27, 2018
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) recently held that the Polish government is violating EU law by failing to reduce the presence of toxins in the air to a level in compliance with the bloc's rules and found that the Polish plan to reduce air pollution did not meet the country's obligations to limit pollutants within the shortest possible period.
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May Calls for Ambitious Trade Deal with EU
March 27, 2018
In a recent speech in London, UK Prime Minister Theresa May called for the agreement of a free-trade deal between Britain and the EU "covering more sectors and co-operating more fully” than any other trade deal across the globe.
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Rutte Dismisses Federalized Future for Post-Brexit EU
March 27, 2018
Offering his vision for how the EU should move forward without the UK after Brexit, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asserted that the supranational bloc is not "an unstoppable train speeding towards federalism" and called for the EU budget to shrink due to the departure of one of its main contributors.
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Hungarian Official Blames Brexit on EU Institutions
March 26, 2018
Politico reports that, during a visit with UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó referred to Brexit as "Brussels' failure" and warned that the UK's vote to leave the bloc would cause a "huge problem" from the perspective of EU institutions.
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