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EU Agenda Focuses on Social, Environmental Policy
November 04, 2015
EUobserver reports that the European Commission's Work Programme for 2016 includes overhauling the EU's migration system, the establishment of "a pillar of social rights," the development of an EU border and coast guard, and the implementation of the UN's agenda on countering climate change.
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Professor Calls for Common EU Migration Policy
November 04, 2015
Professor Thomas Straubhaar of the University of Hamburg has called for the authority to determine migration and refugee policy to be taken from the EU member countries and placed in EU institutions, in order to permit these institutions to form a common migration policy applicable across the bloc.
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Critics Express Doubts over EU Roaming-Charge Measure
November 04, 2015
The BBC reports that, responding to the European Parliament's adoption of legislation that will, beginning in 2017, eliminate roaming charges for using mobile phones abroad in the EU, critics have expressed concern that phone companies will push along the applicable costs to the consumers in the form of higher general rates.
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Committee Calls for Common EU Corporate Tax Base
November 03, 2015
Recent recommendations from the European Parliament's Special Committee on Tax Rulings call for legislation requiring companies operating in Europe to supply country-by-country reports on their financial data and establishing a compulsory, consolidated EU corporate tax base that would prevent businesses from avoiding taxes in countries in which they operate.
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EU Takes Countries to Court over Bank Legislation
November 03, 2015
The European Commission has referred six EU member countries to the Court of Justice of the EU for not transposing a directive on Bank Recovery and Resolution, which in part requires banks to take measures to protect themselves in the case of insolvency, into national legislation.
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