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ECtHR: Moscow Airport Confinement Violated Rights
April 03, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Russia's confinement of asylum seekers in the transit zone of an airport for periods ranging from five months to two years without access to regular sleeping, bathing, and cooking facilities had "made them feel humiliated and debased" and therefore violated their rights against "inhuman or degrading treatment."
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UKIP Sets out Demands for Brexit
April 03, 2017
The BBC reports that the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which has no Members of the UK Parliament but could influence negotiations through its 20 Members of the European Parliament, has published six tests for whether it will support the British Government's final Brexit deal with the EU, including demands for full border control and "maritime sovereignty."
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Party Official: UK-EU Deal Must Maintain "Same Benefits"
March 31, 2017
The UK Labour Party's Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer's six-part test for evaluating whether the party can support the UK government's final post-Brexit deal with the EU includes whether the deal maintains the "exact same benefits" Britain currently has as a member of the EU "single market" and customs union.
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Newspaper: Britain Must Trash EU "Red Tape"
March 31, 2017
The British newspaper The Telegraph has launched a campaign to pressure the UK government to use the occasion of leaving the EU to rid the country of "needless EU regulations," including the bloc's working time directive and some environmental standards, that restrain economic freedom in the country.
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UK, Gulf States Eye Post-Brexit Trade Deal
March 31, 2017
Reuters reports that officials in a number of Gulf Arab states, including those in the Gulf Cooperation Council, are preparing proposals for free trade deals with Britain to be agreed immediately after the country leaves the EU.
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