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Report Explores Best Path for Brexit
August 24, 2016
A report published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute outlines how the UK can best promote economic prosperity as it negotiates its departure from the EU, including by establishing a unique trading relationship with the bloc and forming a commission to jettison EU regulations that threaten economic freedom.
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MEPs Threaten Funding Cut-off for Refusing Migrants
August 24, 2016
Politico reports that two German Members of the European Parliament have called on the EU to withhold promised funding from countries, such as Hungary and Poland, that are resisting an EU plan to resettle migrants throughout the bloc.
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UK Eyes Europol Exit
August 12, 2016
Politico reports that officials from the new British Government, which took office following the UK's vote to leave the EU, are considering as part of their Brexit policy a departure from Europol, an EU law enforcement agency that, beginning in 2017, will be overseen by the European Parliament and will gain more authority to fight terrorism.
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EU Countries Seek UK Concessions for Market Access
August 09, 2016
A Bloomberg profile of the "red lines" countries have stated they will not cross in permitting the UK to maintain access to the EU's "single market," including maintaining the principle of free movement of labor, demonstrates a potentially complex, country-by-country approach the UK would have to take in negotiating a post-Brexit trade deal with the bloc.
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Expert: EU Will Insist on Free Movement in UK Trade Deal
August 09, 2016
The Guardian reports that former EU Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Roderick Abbott, has predicted that the EU and UK will sign a post-Brexit trade deal within two years but that the bloc will likely not accept limits to free movement of labor in exchange for Britain's access to the EU "single market."
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