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Iceland Pulls out of EU Accession Negotiations
March 13, 2015
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson has announced that the country does not intend to restart negotiations to become a member of the EU.
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Thornton: "EU Experiment Has Failed"
March 13, 2015
Bruce Thornton of the Hoover Institution writes that due to the crumbling of unifying beliefs such as patriotism and Christianity, the experiment of the European Union is failing, and the U.S. may be next.
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IEA Rejects "Brexit" Job Loss Claim
March 11, 2015
U.K. think tank Institute of Economic Affairs has issued a report denying the claims of supporters of British membership in the EU that three to four million jobs would be lost if the U.K. left the bloc.
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Commission President Calls for EU Army
March 11, 2015
The Guardian reports that President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has called for the creation of an EU army, which would help the bloc demonstrate to Russia that it is "serious about defending" EU values.
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EU Releases 2015 Justice Scoreboard
March 11, 2015
The European Commission has published the 2015 EU Justice Scoreboard, which monitors the quality, efficiency, and independence of member states' justice systems as a basis for recommendations for improvement.