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Gray: EU Stokes Tension with Rule of Law Framework
July 06, 2016
Former US Ambassador to the EU Boyden Gray writes that the EU's use of its Rule of Law Framework to pressure Poland to resolve its constitutional court standoff has no solid basis in the bloc's treaties and threatens to blow open tensions between the EU and its member states in the wake of Brexit.
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Letts: UK Leaders Must Respect Vote for Sovereignty
July 01, 2016
Quentin Letts of The Daily Mail writes that the vote for Brexit was UK citizens' rebellion against their leaders in asserting the national sovereignty which British officials had declined to protect.
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Academic: Brexit Shows Power of "Left-Behind"
July 01, 2016
Professor Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent writes that, rather than focus on personalities dominating the campaign for the UK to leave the EU, observers should seek to understand the cultivation of euroskeptic views among British blue collar workers and the "left-behind" as an explanation for Brexit.
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Farage Warns of Brexiter "Backslide" on Migration
July 01, 2016
Leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage has warned that some leaders of the "Brexit" campaign set to take new posts in the British Government may, in his view, defy the decision of the voters to oppose "free movement" by negotiating continued open borders with the EU.
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Brexit Campaigners: UK Must End "Free Movement"
July 01, 2016
Multiple leaders of the campaign for the UK to leave the EU have asserted that an end to the application in Britain of the EU principle of free movement is a "red line" that the country's new leadership must respect in the negotiations over Brexit.
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