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IMF Warns of EU's "Structural Weaknesses"
July 18, 2016
An editorial in The Daily Mail argues that the International Monetary Fund has helped validate the decision of the UK to break with the EU with a report outlining the "deep-rooted structural weaknesses" of the EU and the destabilizing effects of the bloc's multiple ongoing crises.
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UK Initiates Post-EU Bilateral Trade Talks
July 18, 2016
In the aftermath of the UK vote to leave the EU, British officials have announced that they are launching preliminary talks with India for a bilateral trade deal and that they will likely target the US, China, Japan, and South Korea in upcoming trade discussions.
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Microsoft Seeks Advice on Rights Promotion
July 15, 2016
Microsoft recently held a European Roundtable on Human Rights at which the technology company invited the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and other participants to provide advice on how it can best promote human rights.
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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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