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FRA Provides Rights Training for "Forced Return" Monitors
March 09, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ("FRA") recently gathered 20 monitors from national bodies charged with observing the "forced return" of migrants located in EU countries to countries outside the EU in order to train them in potential fundamental rights violations.
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Hague: EU Should Grant Turkey "Associate Membership"
March 09, 2016
Former UK foreign secretary William Hague has called on the EU to create a new category of "associate membership" that would encompass such countries as the UK and Turkey that do not wish to, or cannot, strive for "ever closer union" but do wish to maintain strong ties with the bloc.
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CPS Warns of EU Regulation of British Ports
March 04, 2016
The Centre for Policy Studies ("CPS") has published a report warning of the potential effects of a proposed EU Ports Services Regulation that would establish a new regulator that could impose "price proportionality" and other controls on UK ports, which, unlike those in Continental Europe, are for the most part privately run.
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Minister: Brexit Would Move Migrant Camp from France to UK
March 04, 2016
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron has warned that, if the UK leaves the EU, France would immediately permit migrants who have set up camp in Calais in hopes of moving to Britain to cross the English Channel.
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EU Looks to Ramp up Border Security to Save Schengen
March 04, 2016
Politico reports that, according to a draft document, the European Commission has set out a proposed timeline of actions whose goal is to salvage the passport-free Schengen travel area, including the "implementation of an EU border and coast guard service" to patrol the area's external borders.
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