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Moore: UK Should Leave EU's "Single Regulatory Regime"
June 14, 2016
Journalist Charles Moore writes that Britain should extricate its government and economy from the "single regulatory regime" of the EU, often referred to as the "single market," and maintain access to the markets of other EU countries, as it does with markets elsewhere in the world, for the buying and selling of UK goods and services.
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MP: UK Cannot Remove Unemployed EU Migrants
June 14, 2016
UK Member of Parliament and former minister for work and pensions Iain Duncan Smith has warned that, in practice, British authorities cannot enforce a recent law providing for the removal of migrants from other EU countries who have failed to find work within six months of their arrival.
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ECtHR: Gay Marriage Ban Does Not Violate Rights
June 14, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held, in the case of the annulment by French authorities of a marriage between two men before the country passed a law permitting gay marriage, that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
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French Diplomats Seek Punitive Brexit
June 13, 2016
Politico reports that "senior EU diplomatic sources" are calling for tough trade terms negotiated at a quick pace between a newly independent Britain and the EU in order to discourage other countries from leaving the bloc in case the UK votes to leave the EU in an upcoming referendum.
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Academic: Conflict May Estrange Poland from Brussels
June 13, 2016
Norbert Maliszewski of the University of Warsaw writes that, if it pushes on with its rule of law investigation of Poland, the European Commission risks relegating the country to a "European Union B" group where voters feel estranged from EU officials and institutions.
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