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EU May Sanction Poland for Judicial Changes
July 21, 2017
Politico reports that the European Commission is considering plans to sanction the Polish government, in a process that may lead to the country's loss of EU voting rights, in response to proposed Polish judicial reforms that, according to Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, “greatly amplify the threat to the rule of law.”
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Kelly: Trump's Warsaw Speech Reflects a Personalist Nationalism
July 20, 2017
In his recent speech in Warsaw, Poland, President Trump set forth a vision for a Personalist Nationalism, the key features of which Pope John Paul II first articulated.
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CoE Body Weighs in on Pretrial Detention
July 20, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture has called for countries to hold people charged with crimes in detention while they await trial only when "absolutely necessary" and to use alternative measures in all other cases to prevent prison overcrowding.
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EU May Struggle to Enforce "Brexit Bill"
July 20, 2017
The Daily Mail reports that, in the run-up to the UK general election in June, the European Commission rejected advice from EU lawyers that enforcement of a so-called "Brexit bill" of 100 billion euros would be "legally impossible" and decided to pursue the payment to plug a substantial hole in the bloc's budget.
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German Officials Consider UK Fee for Market Access
July 20, 2017
Reuters reports that, in order to defray the added costs Germany would have to pay to the EU budget following Brexit, German officials have floated the idea of granting the UK access to the EU "single market" in return for a fee after Britain leaves the bloc.
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