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Irish Leader Pushes for "Comprehensive" UK-EU Trade Deal
March 05, 2018
The Express reports that Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has called for a "comprehensive free trade agreement" between the UK and EU as the best option for avoiding customs and security checks along the border between his country and Northern Ireland after Brexit.
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EU Official Touts "Ambitious" Defense Collaboration
March 05, 2018
In a speech in Rome, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini characterized the recent creation of a mechanism for defense collaboration among EU member states as "more ambitious than a European army," pointing to the broad reach of the cooperation in various economic sectors and its inclusion of a diplomatic focus.
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NGO Report Pushes for UK "Environmental Justice" After Brexit
March 05, 2018
The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a report warning that the UK must create a framework for "environmental justice" after it leaves the EU to prevent backsliding on European standards strengthened through the "courageous and imaginative jurisprudence" of the Court of Justice of the EU.
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EC Threatens Countries on Air-Pollution Actions
March 05, 2018
Euronews reports that the European Commission (EC) recently demanded that nine EU member states explain what they are doing to remedy high air-pollution levels within their territory and warned that, without sufficient action to improve their air quality, it would file a complaint against them in the Court of Justice of the EU.
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ECtHR: Russia Violated Privacy Rights by Copying Laptop Files
March 05, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently held that Russian customs officers had violated the rights of a photojournalist to respect for private life by copying the contents of his laptop in a search for "extremist" material following his return to the country from the region of Abkhazia.
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