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Juncker Laments Risks to EU Integration
October 29, 2015
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned that due to a struggling economy and "fissures and fractures" at the national level, Europe's "love affair" with EU integration is declining.
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EU Proposes Institutions to Further Fiscal Integration
October 28, 2015
Reuters reports that in its efforts to push forward economic and fiscal union in the eurozone, the European Commission has proposed the creation of Competitiveness Boards to evaluate economic policy in each eurozone country and a European Fiscal Board that would advise on eurozone fiscal policy and coordinate with national boards.
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ECtHR Finds Secret Hearings for Terror Suspects Valid
October 28, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has found that a set of closed court sessions in the UK for three Pakistani students, who had been detained in an anti-terror inquiry for two weeks as courts considered the validity of arrest warrants on national security grounds, did not violate the suspects' human rights.
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EU Orders Fiat, Starbucks to Pay Extra Taxes
October 28, 2015
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has ordered European car company Fiat and US coffee chain Starbucks tens of millions of euros in extra taxes to Luxembourg and Dutch tax authorities, respectively, alleging that these countries' tax deals with the companies were invalid under EU law.
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Farage Seeks Impartial Reporting from BBC
October 28, 2015
In a letter to the British Broadcasting Corporation ("BBC"), head of the UK Independence Party and Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage has called on the company to report impartially on the British referendum on whether to remain in the EU by not using the term "Europe" as a shorthand for EU institutions.