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Draft Document Shows UK Renegotiation Limitations
February 17, 2016
The Telegraph reports that a leaked EU document containing the draft terms of the UK's renegotiation of competences with the bloc shows "no progress" toward British Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for such terms as a guarantee against "ever closer union" and recognition that not all countries will join the euro.
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UK Councillors Call on Cameron to Campaign for Brexit
February 17, 2016
Arguing that the terms of his attempted renegotiation with the EU have not matched his pledges to voters in the last election, UK Conservative Party councillors have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to campaign for the UK to exit the bloc.
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US Warns EU on Targeting of American Companies
February 12, 2016
EUobserver reports that US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has sent a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker accusing the Commission of "disproportionately" and unfairly targeting American companies in recent tax probes.
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Italian Minister Calls for Eurozone Finance Ministry
February 12, 2016
Echoing recent calls from other national finance ministers in the EU, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan has called for the EU to respond to the current market turmoil by creating a eurozone finance ministry that would coordinate economic and fiscal policy throughout the monetary bloc.
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Grieve: Legislation Asserting UK Sovereignty Could "Be Pointless"
February 12, 2016
Former UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has argued that plans to reassert UK sovereignty through legislation, insofar as it conflicted with the supremacy of EU law, would "be pointless" and instead encouraged more dialogue on UK legislation between the British courts and the Court of Justice of the EU.
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