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Bulgaria Prepares New Push to Adopt Euro
January 16, 2018
Reuters reports that the Bulgarian government has signaled that it will place pressure on other EU member states to permit the country to adopt the euro by applying to join the next stage of the eurozone's exchange rate mechanism and forcing its members to explain what Bulgaria must do to meet the mechanism's requirements.
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NGO Director: UK Must Not Remain in EU Customs Union
January 16, 2018
Henry Newman of British think tank Open Europe writes that a decision by the UK to remain in the EU's customs union after Brexit, with no ability to guide EU trade policy and no option to strike trade deals with non-EU countries around the world, would be a "disastrous" choice for the country.
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EU Official Plans Direct Taxes to Plug Brexit Holes
January 11, 2018
The Independent reports that European Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger has called for an expansion of the EU's authority to raise direct taxes, bypassing EU member governments, by introducing a Europe-wide tax on plastics and by making Brussels, as opposed to national governments, the beneficiary of revenue from the EU's emissions trading scheme.
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Cleppe: EU Must Reduce Spending After Brexit
January 11, 2018
Pieter Cleppe of the think tank Open Europe writes that European President Jean-Claude Juncker's push to increase the EU budget after the exit of Britain from the bloc will only heighten euroskeptic concerns about the EU's "excessive spending programs" and "burdensome overregulation" and will continue to strike at the reputation of the supranational organization.
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Commentator: EU's Path Forward Is Via National Sovereignty
January 10, 2018
Author and commentator John Lloyd writes that the EU should not lose itself in a post-Brexit "integrationist pipe dream" but rather should strengthen the bloc's national governments as politically accountable actors and "recast the Union as a loose association of friendly states" that offers both cooperation and flexibility.
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