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Corbyn Seeks End to EU Market-Oriented Policies
July 15, 2016
UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has published an op-ed in which he calls for a new relationship with the EU in the wake of his country's Brexit vote that retains EU social and employment rights but cuts off "EU-enforced liberalisation and privatisation of public services."
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EU Begins Corrective Action over Spain, Portugal Budgets
July 15, 2016
The EU College of Commissioners has declared that Spain and Portugal have not taken sufficient action to reduce their "excessive" budget deficits, an announcement that will initiate a procedure to propose new deficit reduction requirements and that may lead to the EU's imposition of fines on the countries.
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MPs Split with UK Policy on EU Residents
July 15, 2016
The BBC reports that UK Members of Parliament have voted for the British Government to reconsider its policy of refraining from assuring migrants from other EU countries that they will be permitted to remain in the country before negotiations over Britain's exit from the EU begin.
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EU Parliament Agrees to Border and Coast Guard
July 15, 2016
The European Parliament has agreed to a proposal from the European Commission to build on the EU's current border agency, Frontex, to create an EU Border and Coast Guard that will collectivize management of EU external borders and monitor the performance of national border authorities.
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Dutch PM Warns Against Post-Brexit EU Federalism
July 14, 2016
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte has called on EU leaders to recognize the discomfort many Europeans have with Brussels centralization and warned against using the UK vote to leave the EU as a reason "to rush blindly forward towards more political integration and a more federal Europe" among the remaining EU member states.
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