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Schengen Members Seek Extension of Border Controls
September 22, 2017
The Guardian reports that the governments of France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Norway have called on the European Commission to propose legislation doubling from two years to four years the time in which countries in the passport-free Schengen travel area facing "exceptional circumstances" such as terror threats can impose controls on their borders.
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Ireland Resists EU Tax Centralization Proposal
September 22, 2017
Reuters reports that Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has objected to a proposal announced by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his recent "State of the Union" speech to consolidate EU authority over tax policy by permitting a "qualified majority" of EU members to adopt bloc-wide tax measures.
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European Commission Proposes Further Financial Integration
September 21, 2017
The European Commission has formally proposed several measures to further integrate banking and capital markets throughout the EU by granting new powers to supranational financial regulators, including the ability to expand funding by directly taxing regulated companies.
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NGO Warns that Brexit May Diminish Rights
September 21, 2017
Benjamin Ward of Human Rights Watch has expressed concern that UK citizens’ rights may not be protected if the UK Parliament follows through with its current proposal not to incorporate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in domestic law after Brexit.
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Commentator: EU Investment Will Drive Integration
September 21, 2017
Columnist Leonid Bershidsky writes that, while nationalist politicians in Central and Eastern European EU member states may threaten to flout decisions of EU institutions and courts, their actual impact on continued EU integration will be limited because they cannot weather a withdrawal of Western investment from their economies.
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