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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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ECtHR: Latvian Declaration Failed to Satisfy Right to Investigation
July 14, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that, despite its acceptance by the Court, a unilateral declaration of human rights violations and compensation from Latvia to a complainant who accused the country's authorities of ill treatment failed to satisfy the complainant's right to investigation of the harms inflicted against him.
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ECtHR: Hungary's Refugee Detention Violated Rights
July 14, 2016
In the case of an Iranian national fleeing to avoid a criminal conviction based on his sexual orientation, the European Court of Human Rights has held that Hungary's detention of the asylum seeker for approximately two months during proceedings to determine his refugee status violated the rights of the asylum seeker to "liberty and security of person."
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Bundesbank Chief Calls for Fair Deal with UK
July 14, 2016
In response to the UK vote to leave the EU, the President of the German Federal Bank, Jens Weidmann, has called for a fair "Brexit" deal from EU leaders and asserted that "neither side has an interest in putting up trade barriers."
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Eavis: EU Inflexibility May Lead to Disintegration
July 13, 2016
Peter Eavis writes in The New York Times that the UK's exit from the EU demonstrates the EU's inflexibility when faced with challenges and opposition to large agenda items, such as a single currency and free movement, and could signal the cause of a future break-up of the bloc.
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