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Newman: UK Should Focus on Israel Trade After Brexit
June 22, 2017
Director of UK think tank Open Europe Henry Newman writes that, upon its exit from the EU, the UK should consider Israel as a priority partner with which it should negotiate a free trade deal to tap billion of pounds that would result from facilitating economic exchange between the two countries.
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ECtHR: Russian "Gay Propaganda" Laws Violate Rights
June 21, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Russian laws banning the public promotion of "nontraditional sexual relations" violate European human rights provisions guaranteeing the freedom of expression and rights against discrimination.
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UK Officials Predict EU Budget Demands
June 20, 2017
The Telegraph reports that UK officials are expecting EU negotiators to demand that Britain pay significant sums of money into the EU budget until the year 2020 - a year following the country's expected departure from the bloc - before Brexit talks can turn to negotiations over the future relationship between the UK and EU.
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UK Education Committee Seeks Residency Guarantee
June 19, 2017
A recent report from the UK House of Commons Education Committee calls on the British Government to unilaterally guarantee the residency rights of citizens of other EU countries working in UK higher education and to remove overseas students from migration targets at the start of the country's negotiation of its exit from the EU.
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CoE Monitoring Deals Blow to Turkish EU Bid
June 15, 2017
EurActiv reports that a recent vote by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) to reinstate the monitoring of democracy and fundamental rights in Turkey following the country's crackdown on a wide range of actors in response to a failed coup attempt last year has jeopardized Turkey's bid to become a member of the EU.
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