EU GOVERNMENTS REJECT DEAL ON GREEN TAXONOMY, NEW TALKS WITH EU PARLIAMENT NEEDED - EU OFFICIAL
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The EU will honour the entitlement to social security benefits accrued by EU citizens who have been working in Britain before Brexit and British citizens working in the EU. The EU will not require visas from Britons for travel to the EU if Britain does the same for EU citizens entering the UK. The EU can help finance the training of EU customs officials and experts for sanitary and phytosanitary controls.
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The EU will honor the entitlement to social security benefits accrued by EU citizens who have been working in Britain before Brexit and British citizens working in the EU. The EU will not require visas from Britons for travel to the EU if Britain does the same for EU citizens entering the UK. The EU can help finance the training of EU customs officials and experts for sanitary and phytosanitary controls.
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" NIGEL FARAGE, LEADER OF THE BRITISH ANTI-EU PARTY UKIP "The EU is failing, the EU is dying.
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EU rules guarantee that EU citizens of one country can live and work in any other EU country.
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EU lawmaker Sven Giegold, who sits on the EU parliament's committee on financial crime, said in a letter to the EU Commission that the EU executive should start legal proceedings against Denmark and Estonia for their flaws in applying EU laws.
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" 'Neither pro-EU nor anti-EU' A senior White House official involved in foreign policy told CNN that the Trump administration's European policy is neither "pro-EU" nor "anti-EU.
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Traffic between the UK and other EU member states is currently covered by the EU Open Skies deal which allows EU airlines unlimited flying rights to, from and within other EU countries.
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Other EU measures to try to keep EU money flowing into Iran include coordinating and increasing EU governments' export guarantee credits.
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If the EU commission and EU ministers agree with this assessment, Italy could face EU financial sanctions as early as August.
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A more fragmented EU is also a more political EU.
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EU states supported the Commission's stance, an EU official said.
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Some EU officials fear that a lack of British EU MPs might risk legal challenges to any EU decision taken after that.
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It is global where the EU is regional, networked where the EU is bureaucratic, bottom-up where the EU is top-down.
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EU law guarantees that citizens of one EU country have the right to travel, live, and take jobs in other EU countries.
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Earlier in January, Morawiecki told CNBC that the EU treated Poland differently from other EU nations, arguing that the EU was discriminatory.
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Some EU officials fear that a lack of British EU lawmakers might risk legal challenges to any EU decision taken after that.
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A spokesman for the European Commission, the EU executive, said EU leaders would put a priority on avoiding disruption to EU institutions.
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There's a principle being established that if you're a non-EU country and you have regulatory equivalence to the EU, then you can sell into the EU as if you were an EU member.
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An EU-member-country's passport is also an EU passport; a "Schengen" visa grants access to 22 EU members and four other countries.
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O'Leary is also worried about an EU rule which states that EU airlines like Ryanair must be 50.1 percent owned by EU shareholders.
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All deals signed between British and EU entities before Brexit, therefore governed by EU laws, should remain under EU laws after London leaves.
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The EU has "equivalence" regimes which provide limited access for some of non-EU partners to some areas of EU financial services markets.
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It works closely with other EU institutions to implement EU policy.
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"The EU is failing, the EU is dying," Farage told reporters.
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EU and donations to other campaign groups during the EU referendum.
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"The fact is that U.S. LNG, if priced competitively, can play and increasing role in EU gas supply, enhancing diversification and EU energy security," the EU said in a document detailing the state of EU-U.
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An EU official said some EU countries wanted a candidate from an EU member state, an option that could rule out British candidates, as Britain is due to leave the EU at the end of October.
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The EU executive believes Chinese bidders for EU public contracts should meet high labor and environmental standards and wants to adapt EU law to limit the state-owned enterprises and state subsidies in the EU market.
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EU COMMISSION WILL NOT MAKE PROPOSAL ON FRIDAY TO EXTEND SWISS EXCHANGES' ACCESS TO EU MARKET, EFFECTIVELY ENDING EQUIVALENCE ON JULY 1 - EU SOURCE
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U.S. demand for EU products accounted for 2.6 percent of EU GDP, while EU demand for U.S. products was 2.2 percent of U.S. GDP.
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"The issue is whether and to what extent the EU wishes to prevent EU banks from clearing euro trades outside the EU," Gleeson said.
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Austria said the EU states and the EU Parliament were not far apart and that the EU states' position did address some Italian concerns.
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For now, construction is continuing with the participation of some major EU companies, despite opposition from many EU states and from the EU executive.
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Many EU leaders, wary of eurosceptic voters at home, are determined Britain cannot have access to EU trade and financial markets if it wants to keep out EU workers and refuse to contribute to the EU budget.
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"EU business must be booked from within the EU 27," Wuermelling said.
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EU regulators threatened to challenge the Privacy Shield pact, a EU-U.
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We got an EU ... The EU was really the first big one.
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EU decisions on tax matters require the backing of all EU states.
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The EU wants a deal before an EU election in May 2019.
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Britain needs a friendly EU and the EU needs a friendly Britain.
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EU countries may also strike a deal in May on the proposals made by the EU executive on curbing tax avoidance schemes, EU diplomats said.
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It ends up as a loyal rule-taker, paying into EU programmes and budgets, shadowing EU regulations and granting plentiful work permits to EU nationals.
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Granting EU citizenship to British students may force EU countries to do the same with students from other non-EU countries to avoid illegal discrimination.
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The EU and Britain have yet to agree on guarantees for EU citizens living in the UK and British expats living in other EU countries.
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The settlement gives Britain some leeway to tweak EU financial rules, but this can be overriden by EU powers to maintain wider EU financial stability.
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"With the investment firm review, the EU gets Brexit-ready," said EU lawmaker Markus Ferber, who led the negotiations on behalf of the EU parliament.
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Mogherini's proposals to EU leaders will include a call for EU-led missions to work with a new EU border guard to control migrant flows.
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May, a former supporter of EU membership, filed for divorce in March, meaning Britain would leave the single market and customs union and end EU court oversight, EU budget payments and free migration from the EU to Britain.
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Trade between the EU and GCC amounted to 138 billion euros in 2016, according to the EU. Exports from EU countries to the GCC were worth 100 billion euros and imports to the EU were worth 38 billion.
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The EU executive believes Chinese bidders for EU public contracts should meet high labour and environmental standards and wants to adapt EU law to limit the influence of state-owned enterprises and state subsidies in the EU market.
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The EU and Britain have also yet to agree on guarantees for EU citizens living in the UK and British expats living in other EU countries.
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Por causa de Daniel, "eu sou um ser humano melhor", ela disse, acrescentando que "se eu tivesse um bebê normal, eu não teria dado tanta atenção".
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Fellow Socialist EU leaders tasked Sanchez in May to lead their camp in intense EU horse-trading to pick five names for the top EU positions.
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EU SUMMIT - MARCH 230-08003 EU leaders are due to meet in Brussels.
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Moreover, unlike other EU institutions, the parliament has room for anti-EU politicians.
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"#EU should insist on long extension with participation in #EU elections," Roettgen added.
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That, diplomats said, risked breaking EU rules on equal treatment for EU citizens.
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EU officials also contend EU tariffs on most U.S. imports are already low.
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EU SUMMIT - MARCH 08003-20800 EU leaders are due to meet in Brussels.
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The EU dairy industry is concerned about Canada's commitment to import EU cheese.
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Belgium is one of few EU states where EU citizens can request asylum.
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Most major EU nations knew the UK was never a wholehearted EU player.
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EU SUMMIT - MARCH 230-08003 EU leaders are due to meet in Brussels.
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The two EU negotiating mandates will need to be approved by EU governments.
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DATA AHEAD 0645 France CPI (EU Norm) Prelim YY Sept0900 EU Consumer Confid.
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"The EU can't have a Ministry of Truth," said one senior EU official.
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EU SUMMIT - MARCH 08003-20800 EU leaders are due to meet in Brussels.
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"The position of the EU has not changed," an EU spokeswoman told Reuters.
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The EU-Canada deal will remove 99% of tariffs, but Ottawa has not had to align its rules with the EU. Brussels counters that Britain's geographical proximity and UK-EU economic interdependence make alignment necessary to protect EU consumers and businesses.
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The German chancellor, French president and heads of EU institutions in Brussels took a common line that May's demands to be free to bar EU immigrants and escape oversight by EU courts mean Britain cannot stay inside the EU single market.
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Some EU officials believe that Britain's refusal to put forward a proposed commissioner even though it is still an EU member might put the new Commission in legal difficulty as EU law stipulates there should be one commissioner per EU country.
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Brussels makes it hard for companies working in the EU to store the personal data of EU citizens on servers outside the bloc in any country other than 11 non-EU states whose protection standards EU regulators have approved as "adequate".
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If all EU governments agree, Poland could have its voting rights in the EU suspended, and may also see cuts in billions of euros of EU aid.
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The document will be discussed by EU states' economic envoys on Tuesday when they meet to prepare the monthly gathering of EU finance ministers, EU officials said.
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But an EU official said there was no official U.S. position on the earlier EU paper and the EU had not been seeking U.S. input until now.
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Meanwhile, British lawmakers sit in the EU parliament and thousands of Britons would go on working as EU civil servants and British ministers sit in EU councils.
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And if Britain continues to honour its obligations under the 2019 EU budget after Brexit, British beneficiaries of EU programmes could continue receiving EU funds as planned.
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Britain wants to control immigration from EU countries as part of Brexit, though EU leaders say Britain cannot have full access to EU markets if it does.
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The EU-NATO plan aims to ensure any assets in the 22 allies in both NATO and the EU are available for both NATO and EU operations.
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And if Britain continues to honor its obligations under the 2019 EU budget after Brexit, British beneficiaries of EU programs could continue receiving EU funds as planned.
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The Weakening of the EU When we look at Europe today, we see less of a move toward EU dissolution than the gradual ignoring of EU directives.
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The EU executive is expected to announce draft legislation on the issue next month for feedback from EU countries and EU lawmakers before adopting it next year.
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Industry observers have long thought that the EU regulations were as much about protecting EU industry from competition as from protecting EU citizens' privacy and data rights.
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EU supporters say you have to be in the EU to trade with it.
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Parallel EU negotiations with Britain over terms of its EU exit also complicate matters.
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But it has adopted very different investment strategies in EU and non–EU countries.
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EU ownership rules require European airlines to be majority-owned by an EU entity.
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Britain had long blocked EU defense integration, fearing the development of an EU army.
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The best response to these risks is increased EU unity, top EU officials say.
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An EU court also annulled the duties last year, although the EU has appealed.
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The EU told Poroshenko to ensure the vote was fair, an EU official said.
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The EU court ruling, labeled "historic" by EU lawmakers, effectively dismissed the Commission's argument.
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"China realizes that the EU is not that comfortable," said the senior EU official.
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The EU competition enforcer charged Canon with breaching EU merger rules in July 2017.
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The EU sovereign debt crisis did not happen because of EU profligacy or socialism.
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DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 23 France CPI (EU Norm) Prelim YY Sept2117.08 EU Consumer Confid.
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The 28 EU foreign ministers will meet Turkish EU minister, Omer Celik, on Saturday.
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The EU was not likely to go further than that recommendation, EU sources said.
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DATA AHEAD 0645 France CPI (EU Norm) Prelim YY Sept 0900 EU Consumer Confid.
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DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 0645 France CPI (EU Norm) Prelim YY Sept0900 EU Consumer Confid.
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The EU is Britain's largest trading partner, with UK exports to the EU in 2018 worth 289 billion pounds and imports from the EU worth 345 billion pounds.
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A European Security Compact, under which: - The EU should establish agreed strategic EU priorities for foreign and security policy and promote an integrated EU policy in these areas.
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EU officials told Reuters that oil-exporting Saudi Arabia, which is also a major buyer of EU weapons and other goods, had threatened EU countries to cut contracts.
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The top civil servant in Davis's Brexit ministry, Oliver Robbins, and Britain's EU envoy met chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier over lunch, EU and British officials said.
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Speaking after an EU summit, Tusk summarized the position of the 27 EU countries that will remain in the EU after Britain leaves at the end of October.
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The reform was rolled out by the EU Commission in September after cases of alleged money laundering at some EU banks that "raised concerns that anti-money laundering rules are not always supervised and enforced effectively across the EU," an EU statement said.
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The court said EU citizens may invite the Commission, the EU executive, to propose an EU law if a so-called "citizens' initiative" gathers 1 million signatures from at least a quarter of EU countries, but such an invitation was not binding.
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They also argue Britain could write its own financial rules outside the EU. The study said the EU can grant passports to non-EU lenders, which "could be an important mitigant allowing wholesale cross-border investment services to be provided in the EU".
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Asked to respond to overseas regulators' concerns about the lack of clear EU guidance, European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand said that data flows between the EU and non-EU countries could be ensured using the mechanisms provided under the EU data protection legislation.
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EU SAYS: EU citizens living in Britain after Brexit, as well as their future relatives, must enjoy all current rights for life and keep them even if they spend some years back in the EU. Britons in Europe would be treated similarly by host EU states but would not keep those rights in another EU country.
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Although China initially asked for WTO consultations with both the U.S. and the EU, China chose to have the EU case proceed more quickly, in an apparent move to isolate the EU. Separately, last year the European Commission introduced a proposed change to EU law that could significantly alter how the EU calculates antidumping duties for China.
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A UK court asked the EU court whether Gibraltar and Britain were to be treated as a single EU member state for which the EU law would not apply.
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ESMA said it makes sense to restrict the ability of EU investment firms to trade EU listed shares on "third country" or non-EU platforms that are not "equivalent".
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However, EU officials note that EU texts agreed last year spell out that both sides will be bound by a principle of "sincere cooperation" while bound by EU treaties.
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"Unilateral action by the EU would seriously undermine international efforts to address tax issues," Susan Danger, head of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU), said.
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Although EU national governments wield more power in the bloc's Brussels headquarters, EU lawmakers get a say in shaping new EU rules via a negotiated process with member states.
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EU anti-money laundering rules "need to be enforced with the same high standards across the EU to avoid creating any weak link," EU justice commissioner Vera Jourova said.
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The treaty would have non-EU member Switzerland routinely adopt EU single market rules and have EU citizens in Switzerland enjoy the same rights as in their homes countries.
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The EU executive has proposed allowing British airlines to fly to and from EU airports for 12 months after March 29, assuming Britain offers equivalent rights to EU airlines.
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But the United Kingdom is a less important market for the EU than the EU is for us (Jonathan Portes reckons Britain is around 16% of EU goods exports).
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The UK is due to leave the EU in March, triggering renewed efforts to push through reforms to create a deeper EU capital market by strengthening pan-EU supervision.
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To implement the measure, EU politicians said country markers would have to be attached to EU carbon allowances - creating a potential divergence in prices between EU and British permits.
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The treaty would have non-EU member Switzerland routinely adopt EU single market rules and have EU citizens in Switzerland enjoy the same rights as in their home countries.
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Securing rights for EU nationals in the U.K. and U.K. nationals in the EU 7.
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The EU is in the process of tightening rules for subsidiaries of non-EU banks.
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EU, the group which campaigned for Britain to leave the EU. Reports on the Leave.
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The EU is its biggest source of investment, according to the EU-ASEAN business council.
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Separation from the EU will involve divvying up EU-owned assets, pensions and much else.
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The EU Commission can take countries to Europe's top court if they breach EU law.
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EU REGULATORS SAY UBS NOT FINED AS IT ALERTED THE TWO CARTELS TO EU ENFORCERS
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ITALY'S ECONOMY MINISTER SAYS CLASH WITH EU COMMISSION WOULD DAMAGE BOTH COUNTRY AND THE EU
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EU money is likely to be forthcoming, but little else, EU officials and diplomats said.
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EU states failed to agree on this part of the reform, an EU statement said.
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MICHEL BARNIER - French, EPP, 251, EU Brexit negotiator, former foreign minister, MEP and EU commissioner.
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" An EU official rejected that, saying the ruling "confirmed the solidity of EU sanctions policy.
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Exports to the EU were 481 million euros ($511 million) last year, EU figures show.
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But EU leaders will want a lot more, including continuing payments into the EU budget.
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MIFID II effectively allows firms from non-EU member states to access the EU market.
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The full report ' EU Asset Quality Update: Five Largest EU Countries' is available at www.fitchratings.
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An EU court also annulled the EU's biodiesel duties last year, although the EU appealed.
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Several studies have found that EU migrants, unlike non-EU ones, are net fiscal contributors.
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It should be based on EU laws, subject to EU courts, and of limited duration.
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Switzerland is not an EU member, but home to more than a million EU citizens.
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Article 50 of the EU Treaty—the legal process by which an EU member state
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" A flabbergasted EU Council President Donald Tusk tweeted "American and the EU are best friends.
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It's also the nickname of choice used to badge the EU by anti-EU media.
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When we leave the EU, the Withdrawal Bill will bring EU law into UK law.
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EU FINANCIAL SERVICES CHIEF VALDIS DOMBROVSKIS SAYS GAP IN EU INSURANCE RULES MAY NEED FILLING
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Graham Bishop, a pro-EU consultant who has advised EU institutions, is also a member.
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The EU-Mercosur deal is not be the first EU trade agreement to face resistance.
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Having left the EU, Britain is free to pursue trade deals with non-EU countries.
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Having left the EU, Britain is free to pursue trade deals with non-EU countries.
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After again being unable to demonstrate any health risk, the EU retreated from another World Trade Organization defeat by developing a complex and convoluted process preventing U.S. and other non-EU farmers from significant EU market penetration while allowing EU farmers time to catch up.
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BUT...While EU leaders do not rule that out, they have set tough conditions similar to those imposed on Norway, which can access EU markets in return for cash contributions, taking EU migrants as well as refugees and observing rules overseen by EU courts.
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This would state that the treaty did not guarantee EU membership or entail any security guarantees by the EU. It would also not provide Ukrainian workers with automatic access to employment in the EU or oblige EU member states to provide financial support for Ukraine.
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Yesterday the EU parliament passed a resolution calling on the Commission to conduct a proper assessment of Privacy Shield to ensure it provides enough personal data protection for EU citizens to comply with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and new EU data protection rules.
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In fact, various industries in the UK have become more dependent on labor supplied from the EU. Taking a look at the chart that shows the number of EU and non-EU immigrants in Britain, the number of EU immigrants had increased significantly since 2012.
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Maintaining passporting rights for British firms to offer services across the EU must go hand in hand with allowing EU citizens to work unhindered in Britain, EU leaders have said.
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Brussels says Britain would have to align with the EU on state aid, environment, tax, labor and social policies to protect EU consumers and shield EU businesses from unfair competition.
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The EU hopes an improved offer will encourage Mercosur to open its markets to cars and EU dairy produce more rapidly and allow EU companies to bid in public tenders.
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The EU official said Draghi received a standing ovation from EU leaders when he mentioned this was his last EU summit before he steps down from his post in October.
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Some EU officials complain that national authorities can lack zeal in pursuing those who defraud the EU budget and in general can be careless about handing out EU funds correctly.
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A British exit from the EU with no deal to smooth the process would automatically bar British boats from fishing in EU waters and EU boats from fishing off Britain.
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However, Ireland is obliged under the EU single market to allow free movement of EU citizens to Ireland, creating an effective back door for EU nationals into the United Kingdom.
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Brussels blocked EU-based investors from trading on Swiss bourses as the row escalated over the treaty, which would see non-EU member Switzerland routinely adopt EU single market rules.
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Britain's closest EU allies, led by the Netherlands and the Baltics, are pressing for a deal to allow British industry into lucrative EU military projects and tap into EU funds.
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Under EU passporting rules, all banks and financial services companies registered in the EU or European Economic Area (EEA) are free to trade with one another with little EU regulation.
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Juncker said that while some EU policies could be reviewed and modernised, EU governments needed to commit more money to the EU budget to finance new areas of joint interest.
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Under EU data protection law, companies cannot transfer EU citizens' personal data to countries outside the EU deemed to have insufficient privacy safeguards, of which the United States is one.
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The EU will allow British road transport firms basic access to the EU for a "limited period of time" if Britain does the same for EU truck companies and operators.
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The EU executive will adopt a discussion paper by mid-2020 to address foreign subsidies in the single market and tackle foreign access to EU public procurement and EU funding.
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The EU executive will adopt a discussion paper by mid-2020 to address foreign subsidies in the single market and tackle foreign access to EU public procurement and EU funding.
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Those yet to be met include signing a deal with EU police agency Europol, adopting EU data protection rules and dropping visa requirements for nationals of certain EU member states.
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Britain's closest EU allies, led by the Netherlands and the Baltics, are pressing for a deal to allow British industry into lucrative EU military projects and tap into EU funds.
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EU negotiators say the problem is not only about customs but also ensuring the goods coming into the EU are produced according to EU rules, which Britain wants to shed.
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The law "needs to be brought back in line with EU law", said an EU spokesman.
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Schulz denied accusations it makes the EU too reliant on Turkey, a candidate for EU membership.
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The EU says it's one of the greatest policies put through by the EU.#Brexit, eh?
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EU figures show trade between the EU and ASEAN region was worth $220 billion last year.
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Is it riskier to stay in a Britain without the EU, or an EU without Britain?
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Talks will continue in coming weeks among EU countries and with EU lawmakers on this matter.
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An EU official says no further negotiations are planned before an EU leaders summit on Wednesday.
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The EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said in a letter to EU Greens MEPs dated Oct.
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"It's insurance," he says, giving him access to EU talent and the protection of EU regulation.
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Permission to allow GM crops into the EU is often delayed as EU members cannot agree.
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To win over their resistance, the proposed EU blacklist would apply only to non-EU countries.
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EU governments champion national companies, often leading to duplication and wasted funds, according to EU data.
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EU leaders are due to meet this week to discuss EU reforms and the migration crisis.
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NATO-EU - Macedonia will seek NATO and EU membership under the name Republic of North Macedonia.
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A second EU official said the EU sanctions-blocking regulation would come into force on Aug.
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The EU official said the Saudis have threatened to cancel lucrative contracts in some EU countries.
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The EU Commission has labeled Rome's 2019 draft budget an unprecedented breach of EU fiscal rules.
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They include former EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson and former EU anti-trust chief Neelie Kroes.
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Still, it does not advocate a break from the EU in the very pro-EU Spain.
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German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said he assumed all EU members would adhere to EU rules.
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They also circumvented EU rules that require "effective" residence in an EU state before granting citizenship.
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Under EU rules, countries require EU authorisation not to charge sales tax on products and services.
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The EU Commission has labelled Rome's 2019 draft budget an unprecedented breach of EU fiscal rules.
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However, no EU country has so far volunteered to host the entity, the EU diplomats said.
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EU aspirants Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro must implement EU laws to qualify for membership.
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Under EU rules, countries need EU authorization not to charge sales tax on products and services.
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But Sweden's EU minister, Hans Dahlgren, stressed unity among EU members in their view on Brexit.
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Yet his statements have already made EU politicians return to the debate about EU defence capabilities.
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EU negotiators may also attempt to discourage other EU member states from following in Britain's footsteps.
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Eight EU countries on Monday recognised Guaido, but Italy's opposition has prevented a unified EU stance.
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Macron and Merkel, as just about everyone in the EU, realize that the EU needs fixing.
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EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Canete and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry kicked off an EU-U.
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EU TRADE COMMISSIONER HOGAN SAYS WE CAN'T TELL HUAWEI THAT IT CAN'T COME INTO THE EU
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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK EXPECTED AT THIS STAGE TO HAVE ONLY MARGINAL IMPACT ON EU ECONOMY - EU SOURCES
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EU law requires member states to admit an unlimited number of migrants from other EU countries.
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He was referring to a keynote speech by Juncker 10 days ago in which the EU chief executive said anti-EU populists were in retreat and called for deeper EU integration.
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Most EU countries support the EU-wide tax that, if not adopted, could be replaced by similar national levies in what would be a negative development for the EU internal market.
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That means EU leaders would request that the UK commit to not obstructing EU decision-making if it remained a member for a longer period, which would include EU budget negotiations.
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Brussels blocked EU-based investors from trading on Swiss bourses from July as conflict escalated over the treaty, which would see non-EU member Switzerland routinely adopt EU single market rules.
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Incoming EU presidency chair Slovakia said EU governments could not ignore the political pressure in some EU countries for a shift in sanctions policy with Russia, the bloc's biggest energy supplier.
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This includes in both EU and non-EU countries (such as Switzerland), as well as the in-the-process-of-brexiting UK (which is set to leave the EU next year).
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To end another EU investigation, Visa and MasterCard have capped cross-border fees within Europe - that is, fees on transactions in one EU country charged for transactions in another EU country.
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Barnier said the EU could not compromise on the integrity of its single market and allow customs-free EU trade with Northern Ireland unless the British province subscribed to EU rules.
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But the supply deficit may spark more imports from outside the EU. "I anticipate substantial EU purchases of malting barley by the EU in Argentina early in 2019," another trader said.
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Other measures proposed by the Commission, the EU executive, include urging EU governments to start the legal process of allowing the European Investment Bank to lend to EU projects in Iran.
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The hike may be as high as 25 percent, according to EU estimates based on a sample of 95 banks discussed on Tuesday by EU finance ministers, two EU officials said.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May's drive to restrict immigration from the EU and end EU judicial oversight made it unlikely, Russell said, that Britain would remain in the EU single market.
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The EU Commission sought to redistribute 2628,28503 asylum seekers throughout the EU from Greece and Italy, but lack of cooperation from other EU nations made it impossible to achieve that goal.
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The draft resolution said the EU could consider the rules of Britain as a third country as equivalent to those of the EU to facilitate firms' access to the EU market.
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" EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström: "The EU is a close ally of the US and we continue to be of the view that the EU should be excluded from these measures.
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Britain did win assurances that it will be able to benefit from EU defense integration to allow British industry to work with lucrative EU military projects and tap into EU funds.
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Tickets for flights between EU cities are exempt from VAT in all EU countries, but 23 EU member states charge VAT on domestic flights at rates ranging from 3% in Luxembourg to 27% in Hungary with an average weighted EU VAT of 4 euros per ticket.
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France's president Francois Hollande said the EU would make no advance deal with Scotland over EU membership and Spain signaled that it was against Scottish EU membership lest it encourages a large separatist movement in Catalonia to break away and bid to join the EU too.
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"The EU has a strong legal framework to fight human trafficking and, together with the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, we work to improve coordination between EU institutions, agencies and States as well as non-EU countries and international actors to prevent and fight trafficking," she said.
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He said that non-EU Switzerland spent 10 years negotiating 120 trade pacts with the EU that do not include financial services, even though the Alpine state must accept, as part of those deals, the free movement of EU citizens and primacy of EU court rulings.
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But the EU will only move to trade talks if there is enough progress on three key issues: the money Britain must pay to the EU; rights for EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in the EU; and how to avoid a hard border with Ireland.
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"The EU will consider all options at its disposal to protect its legitimate interests, including in relation to its WTO rights and through the use of the EU Blocking Statute," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said in a joint statement.
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The first looked at a trade deal similar to the one between the EU and Norway, which follows the bloc's regulations closely, pays into the EU budget and allows in EU migrants.
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In a step that could make it easier for EU investors to continue using UK trading platforms, ESMA said it was proposing to clarify where EU investors can trade non-EU shares.
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Half of Britain's food is imported and 30 percent comes from the EU, with another 11 percent coming from non-EU countries under trade deals negotiated by the EU, the report noted.
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These so-called "equivalence" rules allow banks in non-EU countries to have access to the EU if they have a similar regulatory regime to the EU and allow a reciprocal arrangement.
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Immigration has surged in Britain in the past 20 years, owing partly to the EU policy that allows citizens of any EU country to live and work in any other EU country.
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"Britain's payments to the EU budget and the issue of the EU quickly starting talks on an FTA (free trade agreement) with Britain will be linked," said a second senior EU official.
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To achieve his ambitious objectives in Brussels, however, he would need support from EU leaders, a large majority in the EU parliament and at least a top EU job to steer reforms.
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The process would be based on article 7 of the EU Treaty, whereby EU governments can ask a member state to take specific action to end a serious breach of EU values.
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Turkey complains about slow progress in its stalled EU accession talks, discussions on visa-free travel for Turks to the EU and disbursement of EU funds to Syrian refugees living in Turkey.
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EU and British officials note that while an EU deal with, say, South Korea took seven years, Britain has regulations in line with the EU now, substantially cutting the need for change.
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Two classes of EU citizens The government's briefing paper distinguishes between two classes of EU citizens — those who arrive in the UK before Britain leaves the EU and those who arrive afterwards.
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Despite Spain being one of key EU states of arrival for refugees and migrants coming from across the Mediterranean, EU officials and diplomats praise his constructive stance in this bitter EU feud.
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What the EU gets -- and what the EU will be deprived of in just a year's time -- is a country that is a serious player on almost all fronts of EU policy.
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During this time, the UK will continue to observe EU rules and pay into the EU budget, with other countries continuing to treat the UK as EU members in all but name.
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The EU watchdog is also working to set up a "mechanism" for national regulators to share live cases at EU level regarding UK firms seeking authorisation in an EU of 27 states.
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First the EU wants to settle key issues: how to calculate an exit bill for Britain's outstanding commitments; treatment of British and EU expats; dealing with outstanding EU legal cases; new borders.
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Now, EU officials say, the draft will propose that they also list how much of their money outside the EU flows through each state classed by EU governments as a tax haven.
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We remain in a regulatory alignment with the EU, accepting EU rules but unable to shape them.
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"Those are not easily sorted out when somebody enters the EU, or leaves the EU," Azevedo said.
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NATO broadly supports EU defense integration, as 22 EU states are members of the U.S.-led alliance.
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That would suit EU leaders who want a deal before an EU parliament election in May 2019.
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The EU also vowed to resettle an equivalent number of refugees from Turkey within other EU states.
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The EU proposal in question is an attempt to shore up existing problems with EU copyright law.
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But Ankara's minister for EU affairs, Volkan Bozkir, told broadcaster NTV Turkish legislation already met EU standards.
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The EU Parliament still needs to approve the deal despite EU leaders already doing so last week.
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And remember that the G-20 includes not just four EU members but also the EU itself.
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The idea of treating EU and non-EU migrants equally seems to align with the government's thinking.
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Under European law, airlines can only fly routes within the EU if they are majority EU-owned.
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Of those who immigrated to the UK, there were slightly more non-EU citizens than EU citizens.
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EU lawmakers must ratify a treaty to avoid legal chaos when Britain leaves the EU in March.
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"The public broadcasting of so-called 'confessions' by Chinese and EU citizens is unacceptable," the EU said.
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EU imports from Iran were up by 52 percent at 396 million euros, according to EU figures.
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The EU energy watchdog previously said the loan guarantee constituted state aid and violated EU subsidy rules.
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"All Indonesia-EU relationships will be overviewed related to that discriminative policy by the EU," Siregar said.
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Under EU rules, Brussels can claim a share of taxes on imported goods raised by EU countries.
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For the EU, Mercosur is its 10th largest export market for goods and eighth largest EU services.
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Meanwhile, the EU has started preparing to retaliate over Boeing subsidies, an EU official said on Tuesday.
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"An EU budget commissioner with such a philosophy could damage the EU as a whole," Barley added.
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The EU wants to impose a global minimum tax on digital innovation, aka the EU Digital Tax.
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As with all EU proposals on tax issues, the backing of all 28 EU states is necessary.
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"The possibility to give new powers to EU financial institutions is therefore preserved," an EU negotiator said.
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Chequers is that the EU has signalled many times, including in a mocking Instagram post by EU
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EU transport commissioner Violeta Bulc said during Monday's debate that EU countries saw the need for coordination.
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Some EU leaders share Britain's view that giving the EU a big military role could undermine NATO.
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Around 100 EU rules would need amending to broaden equivalence, potentially tying up EU legislators for years.
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EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the deal would bring clear benefits to EU companies and farmers.
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Norway and Switzerland both pay into the EU budget to have preferential access to the EU market.
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Theresa May, who attended an EU summit on Thursday, seems increasingly more sidelined from her EU partners.
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But the EU has signaled that it will not remove re-open the UK-EU withdrawal agreement.
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"That is tantamount to coming out of the EU, but being run by the EU," he added.
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Changing EU law isn't straightforward and such an amendment would need to win approval from EU capitals.
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Britain's stalled EU departure creates another opportunity for Sanchez to push for a prominent Spanish EU influence.
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It confirms the EU Commission's assessment that Italy's growing debt is in breach of EU fiscal rules.
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EU OFFICIAL SAYS EU, EUROZONE GROWTH WILL VERY LIKELY FALL BELOW ZERO THIS YEAR DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
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The EU is paying 75% of the costs of flying back EU nationals from around the globe.
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EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in the EU would risk losing residency and other rights.
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The EU proposes another "emergency brake" where Britain could object in the Council of all EU ministers.
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Dow Jones reported, citing an EU official, that the EU has agreed to import more U.S. soybeans.
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As a last resort, the EU can require EU investors use a clearing house in the bloc.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Britain's ambassador to the EU handed documents formalizing Brexit to a senior EU official.
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EU GUIDELINES CALL FOR EU COUNTRIES TO HAVE MULTIPLE 5G PROVIDERS, TO LIMIT DEPENDENCE ON ONE PROVIDER
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By dint of its EU membership Britain has around 40 free-trade deals with non-EU countries.
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"What Google has done is illegal under EU antitrust rules," said EU competition policy chief Margrethe Vestager.
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The agreement reached by EU states will need the approval of the EU Parliament before becoming law.
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"Eu pensei que era castigo de Deus porque eu engravidei quando não devia ter engravidado", confessou ela.
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EU FINANCE MINISTERS BACK TRANSFER OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OVERSIGHT POWERS TO EU BODY FROM NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
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CAUTIOUS EU APPROACH The distinction is important, highlighting the "precautionary principle" that guides EU food safety law.
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Britain has long sought to block EU defense cooperation, fearing it could result in an EU army.
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But EU law still requires members to admit an unlimited number of migrants from other EU countries.
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The U.K.'s vote to leave the EU last month reflected years of anti-EU sentiment both in the U.K. and on the continent and the result was heralded by anti-EU and anti-establishment parties across the region, with several calling for their own votes on EU membership.
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Vatican City, Pope Francis receives in audience EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, EU Council President Donald Tusk, EU Parliament President Martin Schulz (0830 GMT) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (0915 GMT); later also attending EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (1000 GMT).
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The proposal, which needs to be approved by the European Parliament and EU member states before becoming law, would allow EU governments and airlines to submit complaints to the European Commission about any alleged discriminatory practices they face in non-EU countries or illegal subsidies benefiting non-EU airlines.
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"When the United Kingdom leaves the EU, the EU partner is Spain, and in the case of Gibraltar the EU is therefore obliged to take the side of Spain," he told El Pais.
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For the EU, ensuring the ECJ can police the withdrawal and continue to have the final say in disputes involving EU citizens residing in Britain - and Britons living in the EU - is essential.
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The terms on which Conservative Brexiteers wanted to leave the EU were not acceptable to EU negotiators, and the compromises necessary to bring EU negotiators on board were not acceptable to Conservative Brexiteers.
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First, many companies and banks will want to stay in the EU – to tap into Europe's talent pool, access the EU market without import duties, and use the EU "passport" for financial services.
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"We remain committed to continue working closely with the European Union until the ratification of a Canada-EU PNR Agreement that complies with EU fundamental rights and EU law," a government representative said.
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Brussels blocked EU-based investors from trading on Swiss bourses from July 1 as the row escalated over the treaty, which would see non-EU member Switzerland routinely adopt EU single market rules.
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Brussels blocked EU-based investors from trading on Swiss exchanges from July 1 as the row escalated over the treaty, under which non-EU member Switzerland would routinely adopt EU single market rules.
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There would be no changes until the latter date: "All EU citizens currently (in Britain) will have their rights protected under EU law until the date we leave the EU," the source said.
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While the EU has little leverage in the domain of consumer law, the EU's Industry Commissioner has threatened legal action against EU nations if they fail to enforce EU laws on air quality.
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IMPORT TAX Under this option, EU importers of steel, aluminium and other products with high carbon footprints would have to buy carbon allowances, as EU producers do under the EU Emissions Trading System.
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A sharp spike in Italy's cost of borrowing in late May also handed EU stakeholders a sobering reminder that the EU needs London's markets as much as London needs the EU, McFarlane said.
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Without a deal, EU regulators have said that EU-authorised investment firms can only trade shares listed in the bloc on platforms inside the EU, threatening London's central role in European share trading.
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"While there are still more EU citizens moving to the UK than leaving, EU net migration has fallen since 2016, driven by fewer EU arrivals for work," the ONS said in a statement.
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Publicly too, EU leaders have vetoed any discussions over a post-EU relationship until Article 50 is triggered.
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Investors are eyeing an EU summit on April 29, where EU directives for Brexit negotiations will be ratified.
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They also circumvented EU rules that require "effective" residence in an EU state before granting citizenship, it said.
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This regulation concerns not only EU citizens, but any organization that processes the personal data of EU citizens.
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The EU would prefer only a short extension, ending before EU-wide parliamentary elections on May 24-26.
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Under Brexit, British financial firms could only access EU markets if their rules are equivalent to EU standards.
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"We cannot afford to allow a vacuum to develop," said one EU diplomat briefed on the EU discussions.
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Some EU states want to reduce EU funds for the eastern countries as punishment for their government's actions.
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According to data published by the European Commission, EU members granted 978 APAs to EU companies in 2015.
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The EU state aid enforcer said the proposed surcharge reduction for energy-intensive users complied with EU rules.
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In 2900, for example, 222,000 non-EU citizens were granted EU citizenship; every year America naturalises 700,000-750,000.
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Below are significant dates as Britain nears its departure from the EU in March: EU LEADERS MEET - Sept.
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Poland will not leave the EU. But some in the EU are increasingly eager to leave Poland behind.
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But any new EU policies could prove complicated to implement, as EU capitals continue to court Chinese investment.
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"In Biarritz, the EU side will hold its ground on Brexit," said one EU official dealing with Brexit.
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Despite EU efforts, it will ultimately be up to national authorities to safeguard the elections, EU officials say.
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The agreement requires months of technical work before it can be implemented as EU law, EU sources said.
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Like several other EU countries, like the entire EU, Germany is also a target area of international terrorism.
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It argues the mechanism breaches fundamental EU rights and does not provide adequate protection for EU citizens' data.
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Today's adoption of the EU-US Privacy Shield follows a final vote by EU Member States last week.
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Basically, the people of Britain voted to leave the EU because the EU and national freedom don't mix.
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Two EU diplomats said EU foreign ministers would discuss next steps at their next regular meeting on Jan.
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The EU will continue to investigate Amazon and McDonald's European tax affairs, according to EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
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It's that not entirely that everyone in the EU is unsympathetic to Britain leaving the EU, Syfret said.
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Below are significant dates as Britain nears its departure from the EU in March: EU LEADERS MEET - Sept.
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"Such restrictions would be unacceptable for products and technologies funded by the EU budget," the EU letter said.
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EU, founded by insurance tycoon and supporter of the anti-EU UK Independence Party Arron Banks, went unanswered.
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Under an EU court ruling last month this would not need EU approval and so may prove simpler.
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Simply put, the same set of rules will apply to EU and non-EU migrants in the future.
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But the biggest question is whether to count the EU as a block, discounting all intra-EU exports.
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EU SAYS: Wants to avoid new "hard" border between British Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland disrupting peace.
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The EU measures are provisional pending the conclusion of the EU investigation and will apply from Sept. 6.
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But the EU program to relocate asylum seekers from Italy to other EU countries remains far off target.
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If they fail to do so convincingly, the EU may take them to the EU court in Luxembourg.
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The Irish have free movement within the EU; so any EU citizen can currently drive over the border.
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Reductions in EU funding could be mitigated by savings on contributions for EU funding from the UK government.
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Tuesday's proposals will need to be approved by the EU Parliament and EU states before they become law.
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The report said that diverging from EU insurance capital rules could, for example, affect future EU market access.
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"What Google has done is illegal under EU antitrust rules," said EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager at the time.
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Berlin, the biggest contributor to the EU budget, rejected the use of new EU funding following Renzi's letter.
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An EU report this week mentioned it as one of three hotspots for fraudulent claims on EU funds.
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She is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg and EU press and media on EU financial and political issues.
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However, this is not so, as that judgment only concerns cases by EU investors against EU member states.
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EU rules must be approved by the parliament and EU member states, which can be a lengthy process.
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The comments came after EU tech commissioner Andrus Ansip said the EU should be worried about the company.
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UK'S GLEN SAYS UK'S FINANCIAL SECTOR IS "EQUIVALENT" TO EU IN ANYONE'S EYES FOR EU TO GRANT ACCESS
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Individual EU states are moving into the vacuum, despite risks that uncoordinated action could weaken the EU market.
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EU rules are proposed by the executive European Commission and approved by EU states and the European Parliament.
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The EU move was a response to U.S tariffs imposed on EU steel and aluminum early this month.
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EU GOVERNMENTS AGREE TO DELAY APPLICATION OF EU TAXONOMY OF GREEN BONDS, FINANCIAL PRODUCTS TO DECEMBER 2022 - STATEMENT
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The following are comments by EU heads of state and government and senior EU officials before the meeting.
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Always ambiguous on EU membership, Corbyn promised voters a second EU referendum, in which he would remain neutral.
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Chinese investments into the EU far outweigh those of EU companies in China in most industries, they said.
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Always ambiguous on EU membership, Corbyn promised voters a second EU referendum, in which he would remain neutral.
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EU citizens in Britain and Brits living in other EU nations will have to update their immigration statuses.
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In talks, the United States should not expect any EU concessions to win an exemption, EU officials said.
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But EU officials have sharply disagreed, saying Poland willingly signed on to EU rules when it joined the community, and that the courts must be counted on to also uphold EU contracts and law.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who talked with EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom again on Tuesday, has been on the phone to EU capitals telling them to accept export restraints, according to EU diplomats.
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EU diplomats are trying to convince Britain to agree to drop the "existing" because it might be interpreted as freezing the powers of EU financial authorities at their current levels, an EU official said.
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Agreement was reached early on Thursday after months of dogged talks among EU nations, the European Parliament and the EU executive to finalize reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for after 403.
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Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier said there was "a fundamental divergence" on how to protect the rights of EU citizens living in Britain and of Britons in the remaining 27 EU countries after Brexit.
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Diplomatic protests such as cutting EU official visits to Washington are unlikely to have much effect, since requests by EU commissioners for meetings with members of Trump's administration have gone unanswered, EU aides say.
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Potential tensions with the EU and the departure of the UK from the bloc could affect the discussion on the EU budget and the country's allocations for the next EU financial perspective (2021-2027).
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The repeal bill, which the government says will help achieve a smooth transition as Britain leaves the EU, will transpose EU law and repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which formalizes Britain's EU membership.
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During this time, the UK will continue to observe EU rules and pay into the EU budget, with other countries continuing to treat the UK as an EU member state in all but name.
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BRUSSELS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The proposed EU transport commissioner, Romanian socialist politician Rovana Plumb, has a conflict of interest that undermines her candidacy, EU lawmakers found on Thursday, according to an EU official said.
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Brexit is a worry for EU insurers too, conference speakers said, as insurance companies with EU bases currently hold more than 700 "passports" allowing them to sell policies across the EU, including into Britain.
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Bound by previous EU internal agreements not to share the draft until May has formally committed Britain to covering outstanding EU payments, guaranteeing EU citizens' rights and an open border for Northern Ireland, Tusk must now wait until May returns and EU negotiator Michel Barnier has signed off a deal.
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There are a number of options open to Britain, including to maintain access to EU markets as Switzerland and Norway have — although EU leaders have said the price for that could be allowing free EU migration and accepting other EU rules that British voters have just rejected in the referendum.
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Peter Moloney, a visiting assistant professor of history at Boston College who studies EU governance, explains that the details will have to be negotiated between the EU and UK. But as an example, other borders between the EU and non-EU countries involve checkpoints, traffic stops, fences, and so on.
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Johnson immediately pushes for a Brexit, and recently issued an ultimatum to the EU. Saying unless EU leaders agree to renegotiate the terms of the Brexit agreement reached by his processor Theresa May or he will not negotiate with the EU anymore and the Britain will leave EU without deal.
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A British suggestion that it could form a "customs partnership" with the EU, collecting duties on behalf of the EU while pursuing its own tariff policy and refusing to be bound by EU courts and regulations, was dismissed last year in Brussels as impractical and a threat to the EU market.
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For Britons living in the EU, the draft deal on Britain's withdrawal from the EU released on Wednesday envisages the right to claim lifetime residence in the particular EU state in which they now live, but with no freedom to then move to another EU state, as they can now.
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The EU proposal will also extend the EU's clout on foreign financial firms that are allowed to operate in the EU, a move that could effectively lead to some EU control of Britain's financial sector.
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EU loans are extended to countries facing economic difficulties, predominantly EU MS. The largest single exposure is Portugal (BB+/Positive), and EU granted a one-month bridge financing to Greece in 244 (already fully repaid).
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The three EU institutions - the council of EU governments, the parliament and the European Commission - decided that funds for the free WiFi initiative will come from a limited review of the seven-year EU budget.
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The status of millions of EU citizens living in the UK and UK citizens living in the EU Broadly speaking, EU nationals who've lived in the UK for five years can remain with their families.
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The Repeal Bill, which the government says will help achieve a smooth transition as Britain leaves the EU, will transpose EU law and also repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which formalizes Britain's EU membership.
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In a statement, the EU office in Ottawa confirmed the new rules would apply to "all EU trading partners, not just Canada," adding EU trading partners were alerted to the pending regulations in December 2018.
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British EU supporters will campaign hard to turn out pro-EU voters and convince undecideds, with a goal of preventing May from taking the hard line in negotiations with the EU that she currently wants.
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is central to the government's plan to leave the EU in March 2019, repealing the laws that made Britain an EU member and transposing existing EU law into British law.
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Visa and MasterCard capped cross-border fees within Europe - that is, fees on transactions in one EU country charged for transactions in another EU country - in 2014 and 2009 respectively, to end another EU investigation.
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From previous experience, it is likely that vested interests in the EU will have their way and the EU will refuse to place agriculture on the table, torpedoing the chances of a comprehensive EU-U.
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The rules covering "freedom of movement" in Europe are complex and disparate and apply in varying degrees to EU members and non-EU members through the Schengen Agreement, an element of EU aquis, or law.
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EU citizens currently have an automatic right to work in any EU member country, so companies may face human resources challenges if employees based in Britain from other EU countries will be forced to leave.
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Otherwise, leaving the EU will bring new VAT compliance burdens and costs that "will add to the competitive disadvantages for UK businesses trading with the EU compared to their EU competitors," the VAT memo said.
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The EU regulators might ask for the framework to be reviewed when a stricter EU data protection law comes into force in 2018 to see if it still meets EU privacy standards, the people said.
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Behind the debates is the fear of pro-Brexit lawmakers that Britain may never leave the EU, and of pro-EU politicians who are worried Britain might crash out of the EU without a deal.
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Some Britons argue for staying in the EU'S single market but EU leaders insist that would require keeping Britain open to free immigration from the EU, accepting EU laws and paying into the bloc's budget.
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An EU decision to push on with the treaty despite a "no vote", whether the government respects it or not, could be damaging for the EU and highlight EU problems ahead of the British vote.
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The deal struck last week by EU lawmakers and the Finnish presidency of the EU was blocked on Wednesday by EU diplomats at a meeting in Brussels, as several governments raised concerns on the agreement.
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The EU cannot agree on what to do about Hungary; some more conservative EU governments are even standing up for him in the EU Parliament, seeing him as an ally in their fight against migration.
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Behind the debate was the fear of pro-Brexit lawmakers that Britain may never leave the EU, and of pro-EU lawmakers who are worried Britain might crash out of the EU without a deal.
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Davis said those rights, set out in the UK-EU withdrawal treaty, would be fully incorporated into British law — though the EU position remains that expatriates should be entitled to appeal to the EU court.
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May's Brexit deal with the EU establishes a 21-month transition period during which nothing changes practically in the EU-UK relationship, except that the UK can't sit on any EU bodies or make decisions.
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EU DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE OVER ITALY DEBT IS WARRANTED, SAYS PREPARATORY DOCUMENT FOR MEETING OF EU GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS NEXT WEEK
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Long-suffering EU nations like Italy and Greece, where most sea migrants enter, feel abandoned by other EU nations.
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Holding a referendum to undo a temporary scheme agreed by EU ministers last year would disrupt those EU plans.
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EU — entitled "how to win the EU referendum" — an event at which Kaiser gave a pitch on CA's work.
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EU for committing multiple offences under electoral law at the EU Referendum, including for submitting an incomplete spending return.
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"Today the PSC (EU member states' ambassadors) agreed on a package of new autonomous measures," an EU official said.
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It was established to ensure "that all EU countries respect the common values of the EU," according to Politico.
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EU countries are key economic partners and EU funds accounted for 57% of government capital expenditure during 2007-2013.
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Integrating it into the wider EU law would make it an EU, rather than just a euro zone institution.
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EU, held undisclosed meetings with Russian officials around the time of the June 2016 referendum on EU membership. Leave.
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The move is the latest crackdown by the EU competition enforcer on tax deals between EU countries and multinationals.
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A spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs and security policy said the implementation of EU restrictions lay with member states.
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Outside the EU, the UK could selectively offer foreign investors one-off tax deals – something prohibited by EU law.
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While Norway prices its substantial supplies to the EU in euros, an EU official said, other countries use dollars.
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"There will probably be calls to EU referendums in other EU countries, most likely Holland and Sweden," he said.
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Once Britain leaves the EU, he said, 80 percent of NATO defense spending will come from non-EU allies.
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EU officials say Turkey's post-coup crackdown on civil rights has taken it further from complying with EU membership.
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EU rules say EU consumers have a right to take legal action before a court in their own country.
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Financial passporting allows firms that are authorised in one EU country to provide services across the 28 EU states.
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ITALY'S DEPUTY PM SALVINI SAYS ALL EU BUDGET CONSTRAINTS SHOULD BE REMOVED, EU POLICY "HAS BROUGHT PRECARIOUSNESS AND DESPAIR"
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Not only does the EU need Britain's financial capabilities, Britain itself is major importer of EU goods and services.
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Switzerland is not in the EU and it exports more per capita to the EU than the U.K. does.
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The draft document confirms the EU Commission's assessment that Italy's growing debt is in breach of EU fiscal rules.
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North Macedonia, like Albania, is an official candidate for EU membership and needs EU government approval to start negotiations.
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Changes in EU merger rules need to be approved by all 28 EU countries and consent from European Parliament.
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It agreed to follow most other EU rules, open its borders to EU migrants and make hefty annual payments.
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In response to the EU sanctions, Russia now has a boycott on food from the EU. It's very sad.
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Three million EU citizens currently live in the UK; 28,83 EU citizens moved to the UK last year alone.
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U.S. tariffs remain on EU steel and aluminum, although the threat for the same on EU cars has eased.
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EU SAYS: It wants to avoid a "hard" border between British Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland disrupting peace.
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That may come as EU officials deliver the first blows in the talks after an EU summit next month.
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"We don't want any weak links in the EU that criminals could exploit," EU justice commissioner Vera Jourova said.
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In three confidential EU documents, seen by Reuters, the EU sends hints at new regulations to reduce those risks.
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Apple sought EU approval for the deal on Wednesday, according to a filing on the EU competition agency's website.
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Many EU governments complain it increases dependency on Russia's Gazprom, which already supplies around one third of EU gas.
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"Time is very limited," Valdis Dombrovskis told EU lawmakers during an EU parliament hearing in Strasbourg, urging "substantial" changes.
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More migration to the EU from Syria, Africa and the Middle-east, "could threaten EU political harmony", said Hague.
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EU SAYS: Citizens rights and whole withdrawal treaty must be overseen by EU rules and European Court of Justice.
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But over the past two weeks, EU politicians have for the first time shown openness to Scotland's EU predicament.
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EU finance ministers are expected to seal a preliminary deal on EU digital taxes when they meet on Dec.
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But any new EU policies could be complicated to implement, as individual EU capitals continue to court Chinese investment.
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EU lawmakers from the main groupings, including conservatives and socialists, criticized the EU states' decision to block the list.
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The proposal must still be approved by EU lawmakers and EU governments as part of arduous common budget negotiations.
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They also circumvented EU rules that require "effective" residence in an EU state before granting citizenship, the report said.
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Outside the EU, the UK could selectively offer foreign investors one-off tax deals - something prohibited by EU law.
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Ghoshal said she was unaware of official condemnations by the EU, any EU countries, the UK, or Canada, either.
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Ford builds vans in Turkey, which is not part of the EU but is in the EU customs union.
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Some pro-EU MPs have also expressed support for a second referendum on EU membership, or 'a people's vote'.
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EU SHOULD CONSIDER NEW RULES ON CRYPTO ASSETS AND STABLECOINS, INCLUDING POSSIBLE BANS ON HIGH-RISK PROJECTS - EU DRAFT
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The EU deal, which sets parameters for commerce and aid, must now be ratified by EU governments and Cuba.
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In January, the EU parliament adopted a much more ambitious text that would have given EU supervisors more clout .
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These are the rights of EU citizens in Britain, Northern Ireland's new EU border and the intractable "Brexit bill".
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Although it is legally separate from the EU, it has the same members and is governed by EU institutions.
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We are members of the EU. We're negotiating as members of the EU and we're for that of course.
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S. data transfer pact, a top EU official said on Monday, as a deadline from EU privacy regulators looms.
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Cummings masterminded the Vote Leave campaign to quit the EU and has fiercely criticised the existence of EU subsidies.
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After all, they say that they want to remain in the EU. Their countries gain from the EU financially.
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The Communist-backed Melenchon also wants a referendum on EU membership after an attempt to renegotiate the EU treaties.
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If they fail to respond to Brussels' concerns, the EU may take them to the EU court in Luxembourg.
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Jourova said the EU would focus on countries with strong commercial ties to the EU and strong privacy laws.
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EU governments have all but excluded forcing Britain out of the bloc on Friday, EU diplomats in Brussels said.
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Searches like "what does it mean to leave the EU?" and "what is the EU?" surged after the referendum.
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The EU will ensure basic air connectivity to avoid full interruption of air traffic between the EU and Britain.
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Three million EU citizens currently live in the UK; 250,000 EU citizens moved to the UK last year alone.
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The decision confirms the EU Commission's assessment that Italy is in breach of EU fiscal rules, the official said.
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EU families should also find it easier to invest their savings on debt or equity, the EU document says.
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The EU would insist on the Brexit bill, protection of EU citizens' rights and an Irish backstop as prerequisites.
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They simply reiterate the "objective of achieving a climate-neutral EU by 2050," which EU leaders endorsed in December.
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Hogan, who was promoted from the role of EU farm chief in November, has made resetting strained EU-U.
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EU trade negotiators also scoff at the idea of Britain using U.S. trade negotiation as leverage in EU-U.
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The EU competition enforcer can fine companies up to 10 percent of their global turnover for breaching EU rules.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Many EU countries have contacted the European Commission to express their support for the planned EU-U.
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The EU is also reportedly keen to avoid last-minute discussions at an EU Summit on October 17 too.
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EU trade chief Cecilia Malmstrom said on Thursday the EU was open to talks to resolve the trade dispute.
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The EU could accept Johnson's newest offer and the U.K. would cease being an EU member on Oct. 85033.
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Many difficult decisions on EU-UK trading relationships still lie ahead even though Britain leaves the EU on Friday.
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EU TRADE COMMISSIONER HOGAN SAYS CAN'T LET CHINESE DOMINANCE PUT EU COMPANIES OUT OF BUSINESS BASED ON UNFAIR SUBSIDIES
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EU officials repeated that the deal — agreed by all 27 EU members and May — was not open for renegotiation.
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However, EU officials say this approach attempts to keep the benefits of EU membership without incurring the necessary costs.
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EU COURT REJECTS FIAT APPEAL AGAINST EU ORDER TO PAY UP TO 30 MLN EUROS IN LUXEMBOURG TAX DEAL
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One EU diplomat said the influx of migrants must be stemmed by a mid-March EU summit on migration.
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One EU diplomat said Merkel needs to create the impression that the EU is managing migration, an achievable target.
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Brexit weakened the EU. We need to re-negotiate some EU rules, but not in an in/out referendum.
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"That is an EU decision and we hope it is a subject of discussion in the EU," he said.
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The decision confirms the EU Commission's assessment that Italy is in breach of EU fiscal rules, one official said.
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Hogan, who was promoted from the role of EU farm chief in November, has made resetting strained EU-U.
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Under EU rules it would no longer be possible for the EU Commission to propose an extension after Friday.
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If Britain wants to benefit (from the EU in the future) it must commit to re-accepting EU rules.
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Implementing these goals, however, could allow the EU to cut overall emissions by 45% by 2030, EU projections show.
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Option one is a customs partnership between the UK and the EU. At the border, the UK would mirror the EU's requirements for imports from the rest of the world, applying the same tariffs and the same rules of origin as the EU for those goods arriving in the UK and intended for the EU. By following this approach, we would know that all goods entering the EU via the UK pay the right EU duties, removing the need for customs processes at the UK-EU border.
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There are a number of options open to Britain, including to maintain its access to EU markets in the manner of Switzerland and Norway — although EU leaders have said the price for that could be allowing free EU migration and accepting other EU rules that British voters have just rejected in the referendum.
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EU officials expect Poland to back down enough next month on reforms of its judiciary to avoid the Commission having to follow through on a threat to try to suspend its EU voting rights — a compromise the EU executive believes will have been achieved through fear of penalties in the upcoming EU budget.
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A deal like that would allow British-based banks to carry on doing business in the EU. But Norway accepts free movement of EU nationals and pays a contribution to the EU budget as large as Britain's, when measured per person, two of the things British "Out" supporters most resent about EU membership.
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This framework imposes new rules on organizations that offer services to people in the EU, or that analyze data in connection with people in the EU. The regulation will modernize and unify data security laws across all EU member nations, and it will impact how the EU cooperates on information sharing internationally.
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But several people involved in the meetings she had with the EU executive and lawmakers told Reuters that ideas discussed included possible models based on the fact that several states have some parts in the EU and some outside - as in the case of EU member Denmark and its non-EU territory Greenland.
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SIX MONTHS TO RENEGOTIATE THE EU OR GO FOR "FREXIT" * Election to be immediately followed by six months of talks with EU partners to radically change France's membership and turn the bloc into a loose cooperative of countries: no more euro, border-free area, EU budget rules or pre-eminence of EU law.
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She has said that if the EU gives her everything she wants in those negotiations – which, you know, isn't likely – she'd urge the French people to stay in the EU. But if she doesn't, she'll campaign to leave the EU. So how would the French public vote in a referendum on EU membership?
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For Farage and like-minded politicians, reducing immigration is inextricably linked to leaving the EU. Because EU rules require Britain to let in significant numbers of EU immigrants, they argue that Britain can never curb immigration while it's in the EU. This argument came to dominate the case for leaving in Britain.
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The EU will also want to clarify as quickly as possible the status of firms and individuals currently using their EU rights to trade, work and live on either side of a new UK-EU frontier.
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini met Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi on the margins of a China-EU summit in Brussels in April and discussed whether China could buy Iranian oil, three EU officials said.
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The EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee report also concluded that offering preferential treatment to EU nationals, compared to non-EU nationals, would likely secure a better deal for Britons looking to live and work in Europe.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed a China-European Union summit during Germany's 2020 EU presidency that would include national leaders of EU countries as well as officials from Brussels and Beijing, EU diplomats said.
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They were also asked whether they approved of policies such as treating EU migrants the same way as non-EU migrants, or restricting welfare benefits to other EU citizens, which more closely resemble a hard Brexit.
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For example, it is unlikely that the EU would grant Britain access to the single market - key to allowing Britain trade goods and services in the EU - without London accepting the free movement of EU workers.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British students enrolled in universities of European Union countries may be granted EU citizenship under a plan discussed by EU leaders after Britain's vote to leave the EU, Italy's prime minister said on Tuesday.
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Vote Leave says it would be in other EU countries' interests to continue to cooperate with Britain on security after a Brexit, and that EU rules limit Britain's ability to bar or deport dangerous EU citizens.
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Britain wants to strike an agreement with the EU as quickly as possible and it would be desirable for Britain and the EU to reach a deal at a special EU summit in November, he added.
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It welcomed plans to recognise EU tested and licensed products, but said the EU needed to show similar flexibility, echoing warnings from other industry bodies that government contingency plans could be blunted unless the EU cooperates.
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"The UK has a track record of influencing EU rules on data protection and retention," the EU Home Affairs sub-committee writes in a report on the EU data protection package as it pertains to Brexit.
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Handelsblatt, citing EU diplomats, said Britain would also have to meet all the obligations of EU membership during the transition and Barnier was expected to make the proposal during a meeting of EU ambassadors on Friday.
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Le Maire told a meeting of EU finance ministers, broadcast online, that if there was no EU deal in December, that would open the way for national tax schemes that could weaken the EU common market.
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European Parliament lawmakers wanted tougher screening than initially proposed by the EU executive, such as obliging the Commission to start screening deals if a third of EU members expressed concerns and requiring EU countries to cooperate.
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Under the draft deal, which would govern EU-Swiss relations currently regulated by about 120 accords by sector, Switzerland would automatically adapt its migration and social security rules to changes in EU legislation, EU diplomats said.
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If a no-deal scenario takes effect from end March, EU-bound product labels would need to display either an EU address of the producer or the address of the relevant importer into the EU market.
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One official said some EU countries wanted a candidate somebody from an EU member state, an option that could rule out British candidates, as Britain is due to leave the EU at the end of October.
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EU officials have told Reuters their proposals include a dramatic novelty which will tie disbursement of EU funds that via national and regional governments to authorities' provision of functioning judicial systems capable of enforcing EU rules.
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Karel Lannoo, chief executive of Brussels think tank CEPS, said accommodating Britain would put political pressure on the EU to improve access for other non-EU states and annoy Norway, which pays for EU market access.
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The changes to the rules puts more onus on the EU based rating agency to "demonstrate" that the conduct of the non-EU rater "fulfils requirements that are at least as stringent as the EU requirements".
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This would be done in the UK by UK courts, and in the EU by EU courts – with due regard paid to EU case law in areas where the UK continued to apply a common rulebook.
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The EU executive arm decided last week to send the warning, but postponed the announcement to avoid interfering with Brexit discussions at an EU summit in Austria on Wednesday and Thursday, an EU official told Reuters.
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Seeking to reassure savers and strengthen financial stability, several EU countries are conducting tests on banks' security systems, but EU authorities warned national initiatives may be less effective and more costly than a common EU approach.
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Juncker said the EU would also help to protect the personal online data of EU citizens through legal framework changes.
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He also signaled optimism about next Wednesday's EU summit, saying most EU states agreed on a need to delay Brexit.
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The proposal to amend the decision-making process, known as comitology, needs approval of EU states and the EU parliament.
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The EU executive has dealt in previous years with budgets breaking EU rules from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy itself.
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EU officials say negotiations with Moscow may be needed over the pipeline, which begins outside EU jurisdiction on Russia's shores.
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An EU diplomat said around eight new North Korean officials were likely to be added to the EU sanctions list.
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The EU envoy also said that the EU is supportive of all foreign direct investments that will benefit the region.
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An EU spokesman said that implementation and enforcement of the EU sanctions was a matter for the bloc's member states.
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Many Western EU leaders are indeed concerned to limit free movement only to workers - as specified in the EU treaty.
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And as long as we remain within the EU, we are a blockage upon the EU achieving its proper destiny.
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That's because all EU countries would need to agree to a deadline extension at a vote of the EU Council.
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Tax reforms in the EU need unanimity among EU states, a factor that has blocked many overhauls in the past.
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Once outside the EU, Britain could abolish the EU external tariff on many food imports and gain concessions in return.
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FRENCH MOVE WILL NOT BLOCK OPENING OF EU-US TRADE TALKS BECAUSE NECESSARY MAJORITY OF EU MEMBER STATES SUPPORT PROCESS
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As an EU member, the UK shaped Europe's foreign policy, from EU sanctions on Russia to the Iran nuclear deal.
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The British are anyway expected to apply their own tougher rules for non-EU spouses to EU citizens in Britain.
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The future of U.K. citizens living in the EU, and EU citizens in the U.K., will be thrown into question.
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The Commission is studying whether EU-wide tests would help step up security, a source at the EU executive said.
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The head of the EU executive said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump could be trusted on EU-U.
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Sajid Javid, the home secretary, has indicated that he would like to harmonise EU and non-EU migration after Brexit.
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The Estonian proposal was discussed by EU envoys on July 13 but no decision was made, an EU official said.
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It must mend ties with Serbia through EU-mediated talks, being restarted by new EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
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Devolved policy areas often overlapped with EU competencies, and Scotland was happier under the EU yoke than the English one.
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The case reached the EU General Court after the Spanish brand successfully complained to the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
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Mrs May's priorities imply both leaving the EU Single Market and withdrawing from full membership of the EU Customs Union.
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Blacklisted jurisdictions face stricter controls on transactions with the EU, although no sanctions have yet been agreed by EU states.
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She said an EU offer to keep Northern Ireland under EU trade rules would isolate the province from the mainland.
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The EU secured agreement that Britain would offer residence rights to EU citizens who arrive after Brexit but before 2021.
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Barnier told EU envoys on Sunday that the EU could propose extending the transition out to no later than Dec.
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Since both measures would have to be applied both to EU and non-EU imports, prices in Britain would rise.
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Ms May wants as much access to the EU single market as possible, while still imposing limits on EU migration.
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France will be the only EU country with a permanent seat after Britain leaves the 28-nation EU next year.
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They will highlight his failure to secure limits on EU migration or give Britain's parliament a veto over EU legislation.
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The decision must still be approved by a plenary session of the EU parliament on Thursday to become EU law.
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This is a fallacy: Britain accounts for only 10% of EU exports, while the EU takes almost half of Britain's.
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If they're successful, Britain's exit from the EU may be just the first of more EU member nations to leave.
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EU officials said Britain had not yet proposed any new sanctions on Russia to the other 27 EU member states.
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But EU funds are also used to combat terrorism, boost job creation and contribute to projects in non-EU countries.
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"This is the first time that EU finance ministers address this issue in a meeting," a second EU official said.
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Some EU officials want Poland to be monitored, using a rule-of-law mechanism adopted by the EU in 2014.
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The text, backed by diplomats from the 28 EU states, needs the approval of the EU parliament to become law.
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About 1.3 million Britons live in other EU member states, while some three million EU citizens currently live in Britain.
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A few weeks later, the 28 EU states approved the plan in an unusual example of quick EU legislative process.
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A successful crackdown on this means of payment would imply close coordination with non-EU countries, the EU official said.
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EU leaders and officials in Brussels have warned that the Monday summit and another one among EU leaders on Mar.
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He also signalled optimism about next Wednesday's EU summit, saying most EU states agreed on a need to delay Brexit.
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The EU executive branch took action after EU member states failed to reach an agreement on whether to license them.
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EU President Jean-Claude Juncker last weekend launched an ethics investigation into whether Barroso, his predecessor, had broken EU law.
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"The Netherlands will stay in the EU, the public support (for the EU) has increased dramatically after Brexit," he said.
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London, where Trade Secretary Liam Fox welcomed the EU-Japan deal, may seek to emulate the Japan-EU deal's benefits.
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EU member states cannot engage in bilateral talks over aviation deals as long as the EU-level negotiations are ongoing.
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The country's regression in complying with the political criteria for EU membership has been well documented by the EU Commission.
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EU-MEXICO The EU and Mexico have an existing trade agreement dating from 2000, which removed tariffs on industrial goods.
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As a member of the EU, Britain allowed EU citizens to live and work inside Britain without a work permit.
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The same populist forces that are pushing Brexit out of the EU are also at work in other EU countries.
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The EU farm ministers will meet again in Bratislava on Sept 12 and 13 under Slovakia's turn as EU president.
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Britain and the EU have already agreed in principle that equivalence should form the basis of future EU market access.
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The EU has told Turkey that it can forget any aspirations for EU membership if capital punishment is reinstated, however.
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Separately the EU executive also assessed Lithuania's 2017 budget and found it "at risk of non-compliance" with EU targets.
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The Remain campaign failed to deal with the inherently undemocratic nature of the EU. So is post-EU Britain doomed?
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"The amounts at stake may intensify the political pressures both within the EU and from outside the EU," he said.
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UNHCR wants the EU to drop the first country of arrival principle and distribute asylum seekers among EU member states.
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The EU is slated to hold a vote on the document in early July, several EU sources told the publication.
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Phase one covered Britain's bill to the EU, the border with Ireland and the status of EU citizens in Britain.
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But Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his conservatives, who control Austria's EU policy, have said Austria will toe the EU line.
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Earlier this month the EU parliament also adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield.
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Context: The EU has already resettled roughly 23,000 people from refugee camps in countries outside the EU under this mechanism.
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If acceptable to the EU, a new framework could be submitted for approval by all 28 EU commissioners on Feb.
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The UK financial sector currently employs some 1.1 million people, with around 60,000 EU nationals and 100,000 non-EU nationals.
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A border dispute between ex-Yugoslav EU members Croatia and Slovenia, adds to the mix of instability, EU officials say.
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Xiaomi filed an application in 2014 with the EU Intellectual Property Office to register Mi Pad as an EU trademark.
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Rules adopted by the EU in 2013 mandate that ships registered in the EU must be recycled through approved facilities.
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EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides confirmed that 38 EU citizens had died as a result of the flu-like virus.
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The talks with the EU are meant to reach agreement on subjects from trade to security cooperation EU by then.
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The talks with the EU are meant to reach agreement on subjects from trade to security cooperation EU by then.
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Meanwhile some pro-EU figures within May's own party are still pushing for a second EU referendum to be held.
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He was a prominent donor to the pro-EU group Stronger in Europe ahead of June's referendum on EU membership.
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Enthusiasm remains strong in non-EU states like Serbia, which do not have access to EU structural or cohesion funds.
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"They do not lead to a deepening (of the EU) but to a deeper split in the EU," he said.
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But I would like to see mass deportations and not just within the EU but outside the EU as well.
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Travel restrictions in the Schengen area should be proportionate and coordinated among EU states, EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said.
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FCA'S DELFAS SAYS THERE IS A "STRONG BASIS" THAT EU SHOULD FIND UK FINANCIAL FIRMS "EQUIVALENT" FOR EU MARKET ACCESS
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"As far as the EU is concerned, we are waiting for the EU to take charge," the commerce minister said.
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DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 1245 EU ECB Refinancing, Deposit Rates Jan 1330 US Initial Jobless Claims Weekly 1500 EU Consumer Confid.
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Travel restrictions in the Schengen area should be proportionate and coordinated among EU states, EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said.
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Trade deals with the EU usually take a number of years, and also need to be ratified by EU institutions.
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At an EU summit in May he advocated a carbon-neutral EU by 2050 with seven other environmentally minded governments.
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Overall, traffic at EU airports rose 5.5 percent in May, but dropped 2.5 percent for non-EU airports, ACI said.
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The new rules will come into effect after approval by the EU parliament and EU states in the coming weeks.
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The EU parliament is currently dominated by groups that hail from across the political spectrum, but are largely pro-EU.
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Norway is in the single market, in return for accepting free immigration from the EU, EU courts and budget payments.
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The EU claims that Poland is infringing EU rules on the separation of powers between the judiciary and the legislature.
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Both, however, have applied for EU licences to open EU hubs before the United Kingdom leaves the bloc next March.
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"A decision to add seven new people has been taken," one EU diplomat said, following a meeting of EU ambassadors.
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The EU wants any such exit to be approved jointly through a common EU-UK arbitration mechanism - the Joint Committee.
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EU governments were warned on Wednesday that Barnier "should be the sole interlocutor for the EU," according to the minutes.
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From the U.S. perspective, the EU/US Privacy Shield is "one hand clapping" From the U.S. perspective, the EU-U.
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EQUIVALENCE - Banks losing PASSPORTING RIGHTS across the EU say EU recognition that UK rules are EQUIVALENT may help their access.
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An EU document last week showed that EU finance ministers are set to ditch a plan to introduce an EU-wide digital tax but agree to work on a global reform of the taxation of internet companies.
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A report published on Thursday by influential EU lawmaker Paul Tang estimated that Google, which has its EU tax residence in Ireland, paid taxes not higher than 0.8 percent of its EU revenues between 2013 and 2015.
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"We will seek to enter into immediate discussions with the EU institutions and with other EU member states to explore all possible options to protect Scotland's place in the EU," said Sturgeon, speaking outside her official residence.
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Britain will negotiate financial passporting alongside its discussions with the EU on the terms of its exit from the EU. It will have two years to do so once it enacts Article 50 of the EU Treaty.
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"According to EU law a carrier from outside the EU cannot take over more than 49 percent of a carrier from the EU, hence we are in talks with potential investors, among others, from China," he said.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May asked EU leaders for a guarantee that a new EU-UK trade deal would take effect in 2021 even if EU parliaments had not ratified it, Leo Varadkar told the Irish parliament.
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The EU negotiators didn't want to allow Britain unfettered access to EU markets while it made its own rules on everything from immigration to product standards; that would be giving them a better deal than EU members.
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However, if the EU decides not to recognise the UK aviation security system, then passengers from the UK transferring through EU airports and their luggage would have to be rescreened when changing flights in EU hub airports.
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"These access rights were incorporated into the EU Common Fisheries Policy when we joined the EU." The European Commission said it "took note", but also felt the convention had been superseded by EU law, the BBC reported.
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The EU wants a deal on Britain's future relations with the bloc agreed by October, so EU leaders can approve the whole deal at a summit and launch the ratification process in the 27 remaining EU members.
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THE BRUSSELS BACKSTOP: AN IRELAND-ONLY SOLUTION The EU offers to keep Northern Ireland in its economic zone by keeping EU customs terms and "regulatory alignment", ie EU single market regulations on how its goods are produced.
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The fine comes amid trade tensions between the EU and the U.S. after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU. The EU is retaliating, sparking fears of a global trade war.
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Last month, the leaders of the EU approved a deal for the United Kingdom to leave the EU. If the deal is approved by politicians in the United Kingdom, the country will leave the EU in March.
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Northern Ireland would remain in a "common regulatory area" with the EU, aligning local rules for farmers and manufacturers with those of the EU. It also said it would keep Northern Ireland inside the EU customs area.
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"Keeping as many asylum seekers away from EU territory, by tolerating the profound undermining core values of the EU — human rights and the rule of law — has turned into the core of the EU policy," Weber said.
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Johnson was speaking to journalists in Northern Ireland, a British region that has agreed to maintain alignment with EU market rules under Britain's EU exit deal in order to avoid a hard border with EU member Ireland.
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The deal reached was reached early on Thursday after months of dogged talks among EU nations, the European Parliament and the EU executive to finalise reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for enactment after 2020.
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However, if the EU decides not to recognize the UK aviation security system, then passengers from the UK transferring through EU airports and their luggage would have to be rescreened when changing flights in EU hub airports.
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With an October deadline on the trading relationship between Britain and the EU just weeks away, banks have little idea how many EU staff they will need to maintain relationships with EU-based governments, companies and investors.
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Creating a finance minister for the EU rather than for the euro zone is an attempt to prevent divisions among the 27 countries that will remain in the EU once Britain leaves in 2019, EU officials said.
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A deal Cameron struck with EU leaders in February to curb EU immigration, protect London finance interests from the euro zone and opt out of "ever closer union" has been killed by the referendum result, and EU leaders have ruled out new talks on a different form of British EU membership - "Leave means leave".
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"The Article 50 process is a divorce: who gets the house, who gets the kids, who gets the bank accounts," a senior EU official said, referring to priorities such as settling the EU budget and the status of Britons living in other EU states and of EU citizens in Britain - several million people in total.
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While no international treaty will explicitly protect the acquired rights of EU citizens in the UK and those of UK citizens in the EU once Britain leaves the EU, instead of escalating mutual tensions, both the UK and the remaining 27 EU Member States should endeavor immediately to guarantee individuals' rights based on reciprocity.
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The withdrawal agreement is a legal text that's basically the divorce settlement between the UK and the EU. It lays out a transition period after the UK officially leaves the EU, how much the UK must pay the EU when it leaves, and what happens to EU citizens living in the UK and vice versa.
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It said that it expected a "no deal" scenario would mean: - Britain would treat trade with the EU as it currently treats trade with non-EU countries and apply customs duties and import tax on EU imports - Britain would require traders to be registered, with those exporting to the EU needing to submit export declarations and some goods may need export licenses - The EU would apply the same customs rules and tax to imports from Britain that it applies to non-EU countries Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Gareth Jones
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Bern said in November it would ban trading of Swiss shares on EU stock exchanges if Brussels ended the equivalence regime, which could paradoxically help reduce disruption in trading as shares that are not liquid in EU trading venues can be traded on non-equivalent exchanges outside the EU. If Bern applied its ban, Swiss shares would no longer be traded in the EU, making them less liquid in the bloc and allowing EU-based banks and investors to continue trading in Swiss exchanges after equivalence expires, an EU official said.
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Britain's membership of the EU bolstered its influence in America just as its close relations with America increased its clout in the EU. The EU magnified Britain's global power, bringing with it trade deals with 53 other countries.
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Polls in the remaining 27 EU countries currently predict the centre-right will win most seats in the next EU parliament - so when Britain and its deputies leave the EU, the majority in the European assembly could change.
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Senior EU officials urged her to grasp an olive branch from Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that echoed EU proposals for a permanent EU-UK customs union as a way to end deadlock on the Irish border "backstop".
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But she has faced a phalanx of EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, who rule out any negotiation until she triggers the exit process under Article 50 of the EU treaty.
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Ends free movement of people from the EU and repeals other EU law relating to immigration; protects the status of Irish citizens in UK immigration law; and gives Britain powers to amend EU law on social security coordination.
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Polls in the remaining 27 EU countries currently predict the center-right will win most seats in the next EU parliament - so when Britain and its deputies leave the EU, the majority in the European assembly could change.
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One EU diplomat from a country seeking a more ambitious cut said it appeared that Austria, which holds the EU presidency and is negotiating on behalf of the other EU states, was simply waiting for assent from Germany.
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The Dutch dealt a resounding blow to anti-EU populists this week, but if France or Italy fall to anti-EU governments, the U.S. — like other powers — will likely see the EU as an unreliable and unnecessary partner.
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The expanded powers to monitor financial companies from non-EU countries could hurt Britain-based firms after the country leaves the EU and also U.S. businesses, which are among the most active foreign firms in the EU market.
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"This includes transferring UK registered Marketing Authorisations for products that are sold in the EU to an EU entity and duplication of product release testing for products that are transferred between the UK and the EU," it said.
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L, told the lawmakers that banks without operations elsewhere in the EU will likely trigger migration plans immediately after EU divorce talks begin in March, estimating that "tens of thousands" of jobs are linked to EU "passporting" rights.
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"The established parties are mad with worry," said Nicolai von Ondarza at Berlin's SWP think-tank, highlighting the role of pan-EU parties in next year's bargaining over top EU posts such as head of the EU executive.
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A mote of certainty for US businesses that export EU data for processing and are wondering whether or not they are in compliance with EU law right now, given the legal quagmire of EU-US data protection relations.
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It wanted the UK to make "sufficient progress" dealing with the collateral damage that Brexit caused for EU citizens rights, the EU budget, and the Northern Irish border before moving on to discuss the future EU-UK relationship.
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An EU official said the draft statement, seen by Reuters, is already widely supported by the 28 EU states and will be on the table of EU finance ministers at their regular monthly meeting in Brussels on Friday.
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Context: The fine comes amid trade tensions between the EU and the U.S. after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU. The EU is retaliating, sparking fears of a global trade war.
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The president is clearly peeved that Harley Davidson said it is moving jobs overseas due to EU tariffs, and that the EU tariffs were a response to the tariffs that Trump first imposed on EU aluminum and steel.
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Talks between the U.K. and EU have so far focused on the divorce bill that the U.K. will owe the EU, the future of the Irish-Northern Irish border and the rights of EU-UK citizens post-Brexit.
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Given its low level of development relative to other EU countries, the V4 has attracted a large share of EU structural funds (EUR152 billion for the 2014-2020 EU investment cycle, or about a third of total funding).
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Due to this gradual shift of power away from Russia, Moscow has invested considerable political and military resources to weaken the EU. As such, Russia supports anti-EU politicians and funds information campaigns that undermine EU political cohesion.
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The Commission could demand a formal U.S. promise to exclude EU energy companies; use EU laws to block U.S. measures against European entities; or impose outright bans on doing business with certain U.S. companies, an EU official said.
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It is essential that US authorities provide substance and demonstrate to EU stakeholders that the system is in place and works effectively so that this instrument ensures real and effective protection to EU data according to EU standards.
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Earlier, the EU has issued a threat that if the US President Trump insists on levying tariff policies on EU automakers, then EU will impose the latest tariffs on imports of US$300 billion worth of traded goods.
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The European Commission, which will lead negotiations for the EU, has warned member states that UK industry bodies should not be allowed to certify that British goods conform to EU standards after Brexit, EU sources told the Telegraph.
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Cameron wants assurances Britain need not hand more power to Brussels and to enhance the say of nations in the EU. The EU will be proposing a "red card", letting national parliaments acting in concert block EU legislation.
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The SVP has said existing bilateral economic accords were too valuable to the EU for Brussels to annul them, while EU leaders have stressed they cannot show leniency to non-EU member Switzerland without encouraging hardline Brexit negotiators.
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Britain's bolt from the EU fold won't immediately threaten the EU. In fact, the hot mess in British politics has certainly helped dampen enthusiasm that some in other EU countries might have for an exit of their own.
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Asked about EU regulations, which Out campaigners have described as excessive and interfering, 1 percent believed at least one mythical EU rule put to them such as that the EU had banned barmaids from showing too much cleavage.
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Indeed, Norway has just this kind of deal: It's not a EU member, but the country has agreed to voluntarily abide by most EU rules, and in exchange it enjoys most of the economic privileges of EU membership.
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Swiss bourses have free access to the larger EU market thanks to an "equivalence" status that the EU has granted them.
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The free trade agreement with the EU will also hit revenues as imported EU goods will be progressively exempt from tariffs.
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The EU is not democraticThis is the strongest argument against the EU, and there are four good examples showing it: 1.
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EU, a Brexit supporting campaign active in the 2016 EU referendum — via the disgraced and now defunct data company, Cambridge Analytica.
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Under EU law, the UK currently has to allow unlimited migration from France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, or any other EU member.
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But EU optimists say a campaign that grabs more people's attention could reinvigorate post-Brexit efforts to pull the EU together.
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The bill will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK and convert all existing EU laws into domestic ones.
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Five EU companies are involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2 and the EU has expressed concern over such sanctions.
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Sending an item from Britain to Switzerland (outside the EU) costs 150% more than it does to Italy (inside the EU).
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Eurosceptics think it leaves Britain too tied to EU rules and pro-EU lawmakers say the ties are not close enough.
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In Hungary, the subject of EU criticism over the weakening of the rule of law, trust in the EU is falling.
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The bill repeals the 1972 law that made Britain a member of the EU, and transfers EU laws into British ones.
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Extinction Rebellion activists demand more action from EU governments during the annual Open Day at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels.
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EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos speaks before Senate and Chamber of Deputies Constitutional Affairs, Foreign Affairs and EU Policy comittees (300 GMT).
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EU Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova said on Monday the European Commission was assessing whether Volkswagen had violated two EU consumer directives.
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The EU states' decision confirmed a proposal by the EU executive commission in July to end the disciplinary procedure for Greece.
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Mr Lidington was a long-serving pro-EU Europe minister under David Cameron, and knows his colleagues from EU capitals well.
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Lithuania has one of the lowest tax revenue-to-GDP ratios in the EU (28% against the EU average of 40%).
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Internationally-minded firms that trade with both EU and non-EU countries were more active in contingency planning, the survey showed.
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A more potent riposte could be counterclaims against American companies with assets in the EU, a possibility under EU "blocking legislation".
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The EU offered more money for Syrian refugees in Turkey and EU agreed to seek a broad migration deal with Morocco.
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As well as CPTPP and the EU-Japan deal, America is aiming to strike several: with Japan, the EU and China.
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The proposal from Malta, which holds the rotating EU presidency, will be discussed by EU states' representatives in Brussels on Wednesday.
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EU SAYS: Citizens' rights and the whole withdrawal treaty must be overseen by EU rules and the European Court of Justice.
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German conservative Markus Ferber, an EU lawmaker involved in discussions on access to EU markets for Britain's financial sector, was scathing.
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A rise in EU production last year weighed on prices, contributing to a reduction in EU pig numbers, the Commission said.
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The draft EU statement hence makes it clear that any such recognition is a national prerogative, rather than an EU one.
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France, Italy and Denmark support Britain's idea of an EU-led flotilla in the Gulf, three EU diplomats said on Tuesday.
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With 50,000 people jailed pending trial, including German-Turkish nationals, EU membership also looks more distant than ever, EU officials say.
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Germany, the economic and political bedrock of the EU, has seen the right-wing, anti-EU Alternative für Deutschland Party grow.
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Senior EU officials said the 27 countries that would remain in the EU after Britain leaves wold "certainly not" react immediately.
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The EU executive Commission is expected to start talks this year on a reformed EU budget for the period after 2020.
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EU-based criminal organisations, such as Italian mafias, launder most of their illegal proceeds in the largest EU states, estimates show.
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But it has also blocked deeper EU defense cooperation, fearing an EU army that would be an affront to its sovereignty.
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But many other EU countries want real punishment for non-cooperative jurisdictions accused of drawing away tax revenues from EU states.
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Indeed, the UK and Ireland have the strictest rules for migration from within the EU of any of the EU nations.
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A British push to evade EU courts but stay in the single market seems an even longer shot to EU officials.
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Eurosceptics say her agreement does not offer a clean break with the EU, while EU supporters want to maintain closer ties.
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Britain's future customs relationship with the EU is likely to remain unclear at least until an EU leaders' summit in October.
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Germany has seized on it as proof EU regulators should not meddle, while others accuse Berlin of strong-arming EU institutions.
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"That way Merkel and the rest of the EU can avoid blame for forcing the British out," one EU official said.
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EU diplomats hope EU leaders could back the sanctions plan in their final statement at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
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EU governments and the European Parliament have two months to decide whether to accept or to veto the new EU rule.
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The anti-EU tone undercuts what Theresa May has said publicly to the EU about wanting the European bloc to survive.
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The EU elections were expected to further dent traditional pro-EU parties and bolster the nationalist fringe in the European Parliament.
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But passporting between the rest of the EU and Britain may be lost once Britain leaves EU in two years' time.
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The EU is acting here as it has before As to fragmentation, the EU is acting here as it has before.
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She had been considered for an EU top job in last week's round of nominations that followed EU elections in May.
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Watch "Majority 'Remain' London reacts to Britain leaving the EU" Read "The Texit: Britain's EU departure is inspiring more independence movements"
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For Britain, exports to the EU make up 12.6% of GDP, whereas for the EU, exports to Britain are only 3.1%.
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Two EU diplomats said EU foreign ministers will discuss what to do now at their next regular meeting, scheduled for Jan.
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The EU will from Wednesday cut anti-dumping duties to between 4.5 percent and 8.1 percent, the EU official journal said.
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A pact would also allow British and EU firms to continue swapping data without risk of breaching UK and EU laws.
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That ruling prompted Morocco to suspend contact with EU institutions for four weeks and the EU to lodge a legal appeal.
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This allows EU regulators to "defer" to a firm's home supervisor, meaning not every EU rule has to be complied with.
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The money for the loans would be raised by the EU on the markets, using the EU budget as a guarantee.
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Possible next steps: crash out of the EU; never leave, or secure another extension from the EU to keep talking (BBC).
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The EU-Japan agreement will remove EU tariffs of 10 percent on Japanese cars and 3 percent for most car parts.
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This would mean permitting LCH SwapClear to clear for both U.S. and EU participants under EU rules, while avoiding CFTC registration.
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They include: - Agreements between the EU and Moldova and the European Economic Area, which make use of concepts from EU law.
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The agreement reached by EU governments and EU lawmakers will also introduce transparency requirements on the social consequences of investment decisions.
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EU campaign in Britain's 2016 EU referendum campaign, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday he had no business interests in Russia.
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EU lawmakers voted 359 in favour, 212 against and with 31 abstentions for the formal call for an EU arms embargo.
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The ODI called for a fairer EU-wide asylum processing system and reforms to share responsibilities more evenly between EU countries.
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After marathon negotiations, EU leaders just picked their next nominee for EU Commission president, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen.
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Malta, together with other EU states, faces a sanction procedure for its delay in adopting new EU rules against money laundering.
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Yet without those checks, the EU says, the whole of the UK could be piggybacking on the province's special EU deal.
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Assad is pushing EU states do that by suspending visas used by diplomats in Beirut to enter Syria, EU officials say.
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RUSSIAN ENERGY MINISTER SAYS EU COURT RULING CURTAILING GAZPROM ACCESS TO OPAL GAS PIPELINE WILL AFFECT GAS TALKS WITH EU - IFX
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British entities would no longer be eligible to receive EU grants or to participate in EU procurement procedures under current terms.
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Today the EU announced new measures to limit movement between borders within the EU, with the restrictions initially covering 30 days.
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All EU countries, with the exception of Britain and Ireland, trade more with other EU countries than with the outside world.
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A new EU directive will strengthen them by 2021, but it is limited in several areas to breaches of EU law.
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The nuclear option of stripping a state of their voting rights in the EU requires unanimity of all other EU members.
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AP said two officials from EU nations said the request was made last week at a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
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The EU claims that laws aimed at reforming the judiciary undermine the independence of judges and therefore break EU treaty rules.
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EU-based criminal organizations, such as Italian mafias, launder most of their illegal proceeds in the largest EU states, estimates show.
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The EU stressed that the US and the EU are both major players in mine action assistance efforts around the world.
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EU lawmakers broadly agreed EU-UK ties should promote as open markets as possible, but this had to be rules-based.
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EU state aid rules prohibit EU countries from distorting the level playing field by giving tax benefits to a select few.
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EU lawmakers largely accepted a tougher schedule proposed by EU states, according to a text of the compromise seen by Reuters.
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EU policies on climate change, the pre-eminent issue where the EU wants to lead the world, are facing domestic challenges.
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It also needs to disentangle its WTO membership terms from those of the EU before Britain leaves the EU in 2019.
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EU countries had previously endorsed France's candidate Jean-Francois Bohnert for the job, triggering criticism from EU lawmakers and other groups.
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Austria, by contrast, has suggested the EU should drop EU accession talks with Turkey on concerns over democracy and economic matters.
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Britain has baulked, however, at EU demands that extend to their relatives, and at having those rights guaranteed by EU judges.
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Salvini told supporters on Monday evening that last month's EU vote had shown that Italians wanted to break with EU rules.
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Li will also hold a summit in Croatia later that month with 16 central and eastern EU and non-EU states.
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"The likely scenario is that come Marrakesh, the EU will be very embarrassed," said an EU source close to the talks.
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The reason Norway has to accept EU rules is to ensure its businesses have equal conditions for competition with EU peers.
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The EU has launched a rule-of-law investigation that could in theory lead to Poland losing its EU voting rights.
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Washington points to inconsistencies -- EU salad leaves are regularly washed with chlorine -- and says EU rules are a smokescreen for protectionism.
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So even though younger people were more pro-EU than older people were anti-EU, the older voters carried the day.
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Under that model, the UK-EU relationship would be governed by international law — not EU law — and Britain could restrict immigration.
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Some EU officials say Britain might have to hold its own EU legislative election if it is not leaving by July.
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This option could be disruptive for many EU citizens and businesses, but EU leaders wouldn't have any way to stop it.
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Eurosceptics think it leaves Britain too tied to EU rules, and pro-EU lawmakers say the ties are not close enough.
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EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier indicated that one way forward would be for Britain to accept closer alignment with EU regulations.
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"The EU will consider it," he said, adding that the EU needed to deliver fast on preserving oil trade with Iran.
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The larger threat for other EU members is that Britain could become the first step toward unraveling the EU more generally.
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Syrian opposition leaders are due to meet with EU leaders, including EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, in Brussels on Friday.
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Liberty said it asked the High Court to refer questions of EU law to Europe's top court – including the question of whether EU privacy laws apply to retention orders issued for national security purposes and whether retained data must be kept within the EU so it can be protected by EU privacy and data protection rules.
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A reform support program with a 25-billion-euro budget to help EU countries with structural reforms, a new convergence facility to aid non-euro EU countries join the common currency, a European Investment Stabilization Function, backed by loans guaranteed by the EU budget up to 30 billion euros, which will grant preferential loans to crisis hit EU countries.
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Below are some scenarios for financial services access to the EU after Brexit: Dubbed the Norway option, if Britain joined the European Economic Area it would have access to the EU single market in return for accepting free movement of EU citizens, and contributing to the bloc's budget, but with no say over the EU rules it must implement.
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Rolet said caps would not be consistent with the EU having already agreed that U.S. clearing houses were "equivalent", meaning they comply with rules that are as robust as those in the EU. Maintaining regulatory equivalence between the EU and Britain after Brexit would be crucial for clearing in London for EU customers to continue, Rolet added.
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Woods said this commitment was the "linchpin" of how the BoE will deal with 160 EU branches, even though the EU reiterated on Wednesday it won't reciprocate for banks in Britain who serve customers in the EU. The government hopes to publish draft legislation for a "temporary permissions regime" for EU branches before the summer parliamentary recess, Woods said.
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This lengthy agreement tackles some of the critical issues in the forthcoming EU-UK break-up, specifically the divorce settlement (how much the UK must pay the EU, which is likely at least £503 billion, or about $250 billion) and the post-Brexit status of UK citizens and EU nationals living in the EU and UK, respectively.
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With the March 29 deadline for Britain to leave the EU approaching, the House of Commons will vote next Tuesday on alternative Brexit plans having rejected the deal Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the EU. A British exit with no deal would automatically bar British boats from fishing in EU waters and EU boats from fishing off Britain.
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"I'm pleased they've announced a temporary exemption for the EU. What I will be working with my fellow EU leaders today is to see how we can secure a permanent exemption for the EU for those steel tariffs," British Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters as she arrived at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels.
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The Commission's measures cover transport, financial services, customs and border checks, taxation and climate change and will need to be backed by the European Parliament and the 27 countries remaining in the EU. The EU executive proposed allowing British airlines to fly to and from EU airports for 12 months, assuming Britain offered equivalent rights to EU airlines.
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A reform support programme with a 25-billion-euro budget to help EU countries with structural reforms, a new convergence facility to aid non-euro EU countries join the common currency, a European Investment Stabilisation Function, backed by loans guaranteed by the EU budget up to 103 billion euros, which will grant preferential loans to crisis hit EU countries.
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He said Britain would benefit from greater free trade with the EU as it was in the interest of EU companies to give Britain, which currently accounts for about 15 percent of EU gross domestic product, a good deal.
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This refers to the plan to take the UK out of the EU. Former Prime Minister May and the EU negotiated one last year — and Johnson and the EU made some tweaks and delivered a revised version in October.
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President Zelensky and several other leaders of EU and non-EU member states attended the dinner, along with Secretary Perry, U.S. State Department Counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl on behalf of Secretary Pompeo, and numerous other key U.S. and EU officials.
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On top of global challenges, London-listed insurers are grappling with uncertainty over their ability to continue selling products to EU customers after Britain leaves the EU, and some are drawing up plans to potentially set up EU bases.
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BRUSSELS, June 29 (Reuters) - EU leaders confirmed on Wednesdy that access to the EU single market depended on accepting all the four EU freedoms, which includes freedom of movement of people, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on twitter.
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Brussels wants the EU court to have sway over the rights in Britain of EU residents and wants to hear London's plans to avoid a hard customs border with EU member Ireland that could disrupt peace in Northern Ireland.
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But EU officials said that Britain would only get the "bespoke" trade agreement it sought with the EU if it agreed to balance the rights and obligations in a way that would not pick apart the EU single market.
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Both sides stated commitments to prevent a new EU-UK border across the island from disrupting peace in the British province and discussed in detail how a pre-EU Common Travel Area between Britain and EU member Ireland works.
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An EU disciplinary procedure against Italy over its debt is warranted, according to a draft document for a meeting of EU government officials quoted by an EU source, setting the stage for an escalation of a dispute with Rome.
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Brazil's failure to apply EU-equivalent food safety standards raises "serious concerns" about ongoing trade talks between the EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur that Brazil is part of, they said in a letter to the EU Commission.
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Celltrion Inc: * CELLTRION RECEIVES EU APPROVAL FOR TRASTUZUMAB BIOSIMILAR * CELLTRION-DECISION BY EU MEANS HERZUMA IS APPROVED FOR MARKETING IN 28 MEMBER STATES OF EU, IN ADDITION TO NORWAY, LIECHTENSTEIN AND ICELAND Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Chairman Douglas Flint has told lawmakers that banks without operations elsewhere in the EU are likely to trigger migration plans immediately after EU divorce talks begin, estimating that "tens of thousands" of jobs are linked to EU "passporting" rights.
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Turkey, a member of NATO but not of the EU, blocks the sharing of alliance intelligence with the EU, while EU- and NATO-member Greece does not want Brussels sharing any sensitive information with the alliance because of Turkey.
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Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told EU leaders meeting on Tuesday that the Commission would make its proposal on July 5 that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) would be an "EU-only" agreement, an EU official said.
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The changes to the rules puts the onus on the EU-based rating agency to "verify" and "demonstrate" that the conduct of the non-EU rating compiler "fulfils requirements that are at least as stringent as the EU requirements".
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The European Commission, the guardian of EU law, will now ask the other EU governments to declare that Poland's changes to the judiciary constitute "a clear risk of a serious breach" of EU values — especially the rule of law.
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Ryanair was 53.6 percent owned by EU nationals in mid-2016, including 20 percent ownership by UK nationals, meaning that following Brexit it may fall foul of rules stating that EU carriers must be majority-owned by EU investors.
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From May 25 on, the EU will effectively require all businesses to be compliant if they wish to operate in EU member states and serve individuals in the EU — either directly or as a third party (read: at all).
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Speaking in Brussels on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that while the EU never recognized Venezuela's elections last year as legitimate, the decision to recognize a head of state was up to individual EU members alone.
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In what Britain sees as a grab for a core part of the City of London financial district, the EU proposed that "systemic" foreign clearing houses processing euro-denominated assets for EU customers must be open to EU supervision.
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The EU executive says it foresees no changes to the agenda, and some EU officials insist the lawmaking will press on, with Britain remaining a formal member of the EU for at least two years during the exit negotiations.
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Having secured some special concessions from the EU, he then campaigned to keep Britain in the EU in the June 2016 vote.
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Facebook makes use of both SCCs and the newer EU-US Privacy Shield for authorizing its EU-US flows of personal data.
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After Brexit, 80% of NATO's defence expenditure will come from non-EU allies, there is no way the EU can replace NATO.
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EU-bashing is popular with grassroots FN supporters, though opinion polls show a healthy majority of French are attached to EU membership.
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The EU Commission proposed in July new transparency rules on company ownership, which will need approval from the 28 EU member states.
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"It's too difficult to find a compromise," one EU diplomat said of the last round of talks among EU nations last week.
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Under EU rules, the EU executive had to decide by June 21 on whether to propose an extension of the equivalence regime.
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The EU is now attempting to implement a version of the EU-Turkey deal in Libya in order to stem the tide.
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Over the weekend, several EU officials also said the UK needed to formally split right away - possibly at a Tuesday EU meeting.
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As the U.S. Ambassador to the EU, I have always viewed my Ukraine work as central to advancing U.S.-EU foreign policy.
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Trump has ordered Ross to discuss "horrific" EU trade tariffs and barriers with Brussels and has also threatened to hit EU cars.
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In the year to September net migration (immigration minus emigration) was under 300,000, split about evenly between EU and non-EU folk.
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Negotiating the rights of EU migrants in the UK and British expats in the EU will be central to the Brexit talks.
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A no-deal Brexit could leave the status of Britons living in the EU and of EU citizens living in Britain unclear.
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Two of the questions focus on Poland's relationship with the EU. The first asks whether Poland's EU membership should be constitutionally guaranteed.
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There is a risk some FDI would be diverted to other EU countries if Britain lost access to the EU single market.
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Migrants from countries that acceded to the EU in 2004 (EU8 countries) have a higher employment rate than EU migrants in general.
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EU COMMISSION SAYS THAT NEW EU GAS DIRECTIVE, CHALLENGED BY NORD STREAM 2, IS "FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH THE EUS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS" - SPOKESWOMAN
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EU technology chief Andrus Ansip's comments came after the European Commission wrapped up its second review of the so-called EU-U.
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The focus is mainly cheap imports from China, but EU Trade Commissioner Malmstrom said EU industry could be damaged in the process.
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Although any proposal would have to be agreed by all EU member states and the EU parliament before it could be implemented.
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"The European Council has agreed on the future leadership of the EU institutions," said Donald Tusk, chairman of the EU leaders' talks.
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Any attempt to remain in the EU past May 22 is likely to require the U.K. holding EU elections on May 23.
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Both sides have good trade relations (the EU is Turkey's biggest trading partner; Turkey is the 4th highest country for EU exports).
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Dream on, the EU has said, quick to disabuse the U.K. of the notion that it can "cherry-pick" on EU rules.
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The European rules apply to all airlines departing EU airports but do not apply in reverse unless the carrier is EU-based.
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As lawyers of an EU member, they can represent clients at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and advise on EU law.
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EU, one of several pro-Brexit campaigns, which says the EU works against ordinary Britons and protects vested political and commercial interests.
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If the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, decides Poland's new rules breach EU standards, Poland could lose its EU voting rights.
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On security, the EU wanted effective exchange of intelligence and information and to ensure British and EU law enforcement bodies work together.
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However, once again the domestic EU lobby kicked into action and has persuaded the EU not to include agriculture in the talks.
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EU foreign ministers will discuss on Monday further EU support for Ukraine, especially the south-eastern regions most affected by the conflict.
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An adviser to the EU court said in February that Poland's decision to increase logging in the forest did break EU law.
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EU states gave initial backing to the aid plan at a summit with Turkey in November and the EU summit last month.
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The legislation will be automatically applicable if the EU Parliament and EU states do not raise objections in the next three months.
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That means leaving the EU Single Market, controlling immigration from the EU and leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
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The European Commission opposes extending British membership of the EU to June 30, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an official EU document.
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The track doesn't gloss over Britain's bumpy relationship with the EU and blames Brussels for failing to fully appreciate its EU partner.
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EU SAYS: EU citizens living in Britain on Brexit, as well as their future relatives, would enjoy all current rights for life.
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The RN and other eurosceptic anti-immigration parties in other EU states are planning to join forces after the EU parliamentary election.
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It also covers the administrative expenditure of all the European institutions, pensions and EU-run schools for the children of EU employees.
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The document shows the EU executive plans to extend the rules to all EU currencies on transactions made across the entire bloc.
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According to European and Greek legislation, EU companies must pay tax on their profits within the EU, where the activity takes place.
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Johannes Hahn, the EU commissioner responsible for enlargement, recently expressed concern that the EU "overestimated Russia and underestimated China" in the Balkans.
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Some EU governments have considered such a deadline - perhaps more like 2025 - but Ireland and all other EU leaders have rejected that.
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An EU-exclusive deal requires approval from the 28 EU governments and the European Parliament, meaning it can enter force relatively quickly.
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That will take the total of those sanctioned by the EU to 41 individuals and 10 companies, a senior EU official said.
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The Schengen Agreement requires that every EU country agree to let citizens of other EU countries live and work within its borders.
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The EU needs to explain why these populists are wrong — to show that if a country leaves the EU, it will suffer.
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Linkevicius said good relations with EU powerhouses Germany and France within the EU were crucial because of their ability to help militarily.
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British officials are also uneasy about EU negotiators writing into the draft that the British province will avoid diverging from EU rules.
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British taxpayers would still make significant net contributions to the EU budget and the U.K. would not have control over EU migration.
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The most significant aspects include protecting the rights of EU citizens living in Britain and British citizens living in EU member states.
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For example, EU rules limited subsidies EU governments could give to European companies, but did not apply to foreign companies, he said.
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"The route back for the north into the EU is clear, Irish unity is the route back to the EU," McDonald said.
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The draft breaks EU rules because it envisages a large increase of the structural deficit rather a reduction required by EU laws.
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The Commission, the EU executive, is already reviewing whether Greece's difficulty in processing constitute "persistent serious deficiencies" on the external EU frontier.
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Fifty-three percent said they would vote against leaving the EU, while 32 percent would support leaving the EU without a deal.
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The draft breaks EU rules because it envisages a large increase of the structural deficit rather the reduction required by EU laws.
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The EU has long insisted that the only possible transition arrangement would be a "standstill" one, involving continued compliance with EU law.
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The EU, however, stonewalled, forcing Syriza to choose between taking Greece out of the EU and implementing further rounds of crushing austerity.
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This refers to the EU allowing firms from outside the EU to trade in the bloc if they comply with similar rules.
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The EU executive will explore "enforcement measures that support a free flow of data within the EU" as well as possible legislation.
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Any UK businesses wishing to do business within the EU would still need to comply with, for example, EU data protection law.
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But as soon as it seeks to scale to sell within the EU it's going to need to comply with EU law.
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Without ESMA's guidance, EU investors could only trade shares listed on an EU exchange in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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The EU has given 3.3 billion euros in macrofinancial assistance to Ukraine since 2014 - the largest amount to any non-EU country.
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After Britain voted to leave the EU in a referendum in June, EU leaders have held other meetings without their British counterpart.
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Some of the plans would need backing from EU countries that typically are wary of ceding more powers to the EU executive.
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As Britain is leaving the EU, it is unclear whether the country would change its rules to abide by EU tax legislation.
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Canada has no say in setting EU rules and standards, but all its exports into the EU must meet strict European regulations.
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Johnson's case against EU membership focuses on the growing regulatory burden imposed by the EU and the corresponding erosion of British sovereignty.
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But EU optimists also say a campaign that grabs more people's attention could reinvigorate post-Brexit efforts to pull the EU together.
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During the transition period, the U.K. will not have voting rights on EU matters but will still be bound by EU rules.
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"In constant contact with EU delegation in Ankara and Brussels from Mongolia," Mogherini tweeted from the venue of an EU-Asia summit.
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Merchant ships, EU border agency Frontex, ships in the EU anti-smuggling mission and other foreign naval vessels picked up the rest.
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On Monday Malta will host an EU home affairs ministers meeting which will discuss migration and how EU states may share arrivals.
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Britain and the EU are locked in talks on a divorce settlement they hope to conclude at an EU summit on Thursday.
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