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German Politician Seeks Flexibility on EU Free Movement
September 14, 2016
The head of the German Parliament's foreign affairs committee, Norbert Roettgen, has called for EU leaders to be flexible in negotiations with the UK over the country's acceptance of free movement in return for access to the EU's single market following Brexit, arguing that officials should be considering options "out of the box."
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Juncker Considers Call for Loosening EU Budget Rules
September 14, 2016
Politico reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is facing push-back against a suggestion that he would raise a proposal to exclude certain types of spending, such as investment and education funding, from EU budget limits for member states in his annual State of Europe speech.
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UK Pledges Robust Post-Brexit Immigration Control
September 13, 2016
The Daily Mail reports that UK Government officials have proposed the post-Brexit replacement of free movement with EU member states with a work-permit regime that would only allow migrants who had already secured a job in the UK to enter the country and would not discriminate on the basis of country of origin.
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ECtHR Calls on Belgium to Reorganize Psychiatric Detention
September 13, 2016
Concluding that Belgium's confinement of a convicted sex offender in a prison psychiatric ward for over nine years without "appropriate treatment" of his mental illness violated his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has launched a procedure pushing the country to reorganize its system of psychiatric detention to respect the "dignity" of such detainees.
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Anti-EU Party Beats Merkel's Party in German Vote
September 13, 2016
Signaling the strength of the anti-EU, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany ("AfD") party in the run-up to next year's German parliamentary elections, the BBC reports that AfD beat out German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party for second place in an important state election in the northeastern part of the country.
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