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EU Seeks Common Plan for UN Climate Talks
August 12, 2015
Luxembourg environment minister Carole Dieschbourg, whose country will hold the European Council Presidency during UN climate talks in December and who will therefore be responsible for developing the EU joint negotiating strategy, has called on EU countries to develop common positions on greenhouse gas cuts and plans for "climate finance" in developing countries.
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EU Spends Substantial Sums in Self-Promotion
August 11, 2015
Research from the organization Business for Britain demonstrates that the EU spends over 600 million euros promoting itself and the political objectives of the European project.
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Tebbit: ECHR Encourages Judicial Activism in UK
August 10, 2015
Former UK Cabinet Member Norman Tebbit writes that the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") and the related Human Rights Act ("HRA") in Britain have encouraged judges to "rewrite" UK law to accord with their vision of fairness, from revising terms in wills to inventing rights under the HRA for terror suspects.
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Denmark Plans Referendum to End EU Defense Opt-outs
August 07, 2015
Reuters reports that the Danish Government is planning to hold a referendum to decide whether to end the country's current opt-outs from the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy, which would permit the country to engage within the EU framework on joint military operations and developing new military capabilities.
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Juncker Threatens Mandatory EU Resettlement Policy
August 06, 2015
Calling on politicians to ignore "populist" responses to the resettlement of waves of migrants within the EU, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned that if the EU's voluntary resettlement plan failed to find a place for its target of 40,000 migrants, the Commission would bring back a policy of mandatory resettlement later this year.