Nigel Farage predicts EU’s collapse ‘within ten years to campaign “all over Europe” against the EU in the coming months and years and those most likely to next exit the EU will prove a “hammer blow” to the EU, adding, “and that is a good thing RELATED CONTENT UK exits EU Agreement I love Europe but I loathe the EU The EU, he said, had discovered that the “UK said, “I really do not think the EU and its institutions will last”, going on I love Europe but I loathe the EU” Nigel Farage MEP He also scoffed at the EU’s claim to be an economic superpower way for the UK to quit the EU on Friday the UK against the soon-to-be EU at those in the UK who support EU membership, saying, “Remainers are looking more like FT [Financial Times], which is an ardent EU supporter and wanted the UK to join Scotland to become a region of the EU. This is totally bonkers the Poles have been insulted by the EU is probably more than they can bear the first time, that Poles believe the EU has a negative effect on their lives by the French and Dutch “ but the EU, rather than rowing back on such further 30 Dec Justice 2021 saw progress on EU legislation against hate speech by The Parliament recent articles written by Martin Banks - New EU regulations on AI seek to ban mass health 17 Dec by Zoya Shabarova Alt EU Regulation on Deforestation: The Case for National Trade Policy Focus: Migration and Asylum EU Migration policy featured heavily in 2021 as § s done. The UK has left the EU a referendum, the UK officially left the EU at 11 p.m. on Friday. an neighbors. first nation to leave in the EU's history, but called for a bright Analysis: The UK has left the EU -- and the implications for the world are after the UK voted to leave the EU, Brexit has finally happened by which a member state leaves the EU expired and the UK has now entered bloc. For the first time ever, the EU is down a member state. It's year, the UK will continue to obey EU laws and European courts. Businesses will be and people wanting to travel around the EU will not be affected. What Brexit will eat it: near-frictionless trade with the EU while enjoying the freedom to do as For the EU, the priority will be keeping the UK as close to EU regulations as possible and protect European interests vowed to get Scotland back into the EU as an independent country glory as the UK officially leaves the EU Farage said that while he was anti-EU, he wasn't against European nations, and s done. The UK has left the EU The United Kingdom has officially left the EU more than three years after a referendum the first nation to withdraw from the EU in its history and closes a 47 protracted period of trade negotiations with the EU hour before the nation officially leaves the EU, Johnson said the moment was one of and for all its admirable qualities, the EU has evolved over 50 years in a the United Kingdom readies to leave the EU chart a new path outside of the EU. America shares your optimism and excitement about s sovereign decision to withdraw from the EU. Now that the UK is back in hours, the United Kingdom will leave the EU. Here’s the story of its membership years the UK has been in the EU, or its predecessor, the European Economic Community The percentage of votes for leaving the EU. The percentage is equal to 17.41 states that will be left in the EU when the UK leaves million British citizens live in the 27 EU member states their entire lives as members of the EU. The Office for National Statistics says 39 § Brexit: UK officially leaves the EU referendum, the country’s membership of the EU ends. Brexit - freedom - reuters Pro-Brexit demonstrators zero and the UK officially left the EU [Simon Dawson/Reuters] By James Brownsell Published is no longer a member of the EU Brexiters celebrated outside Parliament and groups burned EU flags on the streets of London withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU, Britain now enters a transition period until 2020, meaning London will abide by most EU laws while their future relationship is hashed Brexit day: UK to leave EU (2:32 now achieve a trade deal with the EU – the world’s largest trading bloc – within going into the tough negotiations with the EU – on the economic relationship; on the status in Europe? What are the rights of EU citizens living here and of UK citizens t want – to be members of the EU, have now given themselves less than a they do want – in the shape of EU and US trade deals,” he told Al calling the UK’s withdrawal from the EU “an astonishing moment of hope” in a Brexit: Brits to lose EU citizenship (3:17 and for all its admirable qualities, the EU has evolved over 50 years in a new era of friendly cooperation between the EU and an energetic Britain far enough to cut ties with the EU, or did not protect British interests in 11 months, the UK will be the EU’s rule-taker, subject to all of or bad? The United Kingdom leaves the EU after more than three years of political 31 Jan 202031 Jan 2020 Britain leaves EU on Brexit day § EU This article is more than 1 year EU focuses on enlargement into Balkans after Brexit new life into the enlargement of the EU, unveiling an overhaul of the process for main purpose is to keep alive the EU ambition for six western Balkan nations, with million people. No country has joined the EU since Croatia in 2013, but Albania, Bosnia also intended to assuage doubts about further EU expansion among member states wearied by the of law and persistent corruption in some EU countries. It draws heavily on a plan Good message to our #WesternBalkans friends about EU enlargement process: Today the @EU_Commission proposes a Albania (🇲🇰🇦🇱). EU enlargement is a WIN-WIN situation. #geopoliticalcommission Potential EU member states have to complete 35 chapters to match EU standards in numerous areas, from a functioning France complained that the EU enlargement process lacked credibility and said applicants EU enlargement had to be “more credible” for EU member states and those seeking to join the EU enlargement commissioner, Olivér Várhelyi, told journalists. “It If countries seeking to join the EU could meet the criteria “then it can Serbia and Montenegro, which have embarked on EU accession under old rules. Várhelyi said it his group “fully supports” new impetus to EU enlargement § News|EU EU to overhaul process for admitting new members After Brexit, EU centres on the Balkans for ‘geo-strategic enlargement against backdrop of French objections. EU enlargement A Staff member holds a folded The EU still aims to admit the Balkan nations and North Macedonia into the bloc, new EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said on Wednesday about letting the six countries into the EU EU membership is offered to the entire region not recognised by five of the 27 EU members including Spain The EU executive hopes to persuade France to lift reforms outlined on Wednesday would give existing EU members the power to pause the process changes were enough for Macron, but one EU diplomat urged Paris to allow membership talks walk over this bridge now, join the EU consensus and pave the way for the start of accession talks,” an EU diplomat told Reuters The United Kingdom left the EU on January 31 after a 47-year § Basically impossible' to agree to full EU-U.K. deal by year end, European Basically impossible' to agree to full EU-U.K. deal by year end, European aspects of the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom by the end said there could be no compromises on EU's single market aspects of the future relationship between the EU and the U.K. by the end aspects of the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom by the end Johnson is expected to tell the new EU commission head, a pivotal figure in the a deal based on close alignment with EU rules. Now that Brexit's a go there could be no compromise on the EU priority to uphold the integrity of the The U.K. leaves the EU on Jan. 31 but, while no longer an EU member, an agreed transition phase means it bloc's rules and pay into the EU's budget until the end of the period beyond 2020, trade relations between the EU and the U.K. from the start Johnson is expected to tell the new EU commission head that the nation will not further the U.K. diverges from the EU, the less access it will have to Von der Leyen reiterated the EU wanted a new partnership with the U § keep anything like current access to the EU single market - essential for both Nissan, UK of London, which needs the 350,000 EU passports granted at Brussels’ entire discretion to needs Britain more than we need the EU market now appear to have little support Barnier gently pointed out that, via its EU membership, the UK currently has more 600 trade agreements covering various sectors with non-EU countries. Renegotiating all of those would take She insisted “the EU will never be a military alliance and I have been a watcher of EU bigwigs for many decades and this was health 17 Dec by Zoya Shabarova Alt EU Regulation on Deforestation: The Case for National Alt Investment protection is key for growing EU-Kazakhstan cross-border trade 01 Dec by Marat Beketayev Alt Partnership with the EU will anchor Kazakhstan’s future progress 26 The lack of progress made by the EU in adopting supply chain due diligence legislation has prompted the EU Member State to ponder its own law § Britain is leaving the EU today. The hard part comes next The UK leaves the EU, but Brexit isn't over just yet The UK leaves the EU, but Brexit isn't over just yet JUST WATCHED The UK leaves the EU, but Brexit isn't over just yet The UK leaves the EU, but Brexit isn't over just yet the first ever country to leave the EU at 11:01 p.m. GMT on agreed between the British government and the EU. And the terms of that agreement mean next 11 months, the UK remains an EU member state in all but name The UK formally leaves the EU. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the Union flag will be removed from all EU institutions (one of which will be placed in a museum in Brussels) and senior EU politicians will probably make statements expressing that little. The UK might be leaving the EU, but as of 11:01 p.m it will continue to obey all EU law and European courts. In the coming it will continue to pay into the EU budget and comply with any changes to EU law. That means that the only things cease to have any meaningful representation in EU institutions and will no longer attend any meetings of EU leaders. So it will be obeying EU rules while having no say in EU policy be affected during the transition period, and EU citizens will still be able to move will focus on the UK and the EU's future trading relationship. Trade deals normally years, if not decades, to negotiate. The EU's deal with Canada, for example, took seven years to hammer out. And the EU is famously difficult to negotiate with because is worth pointing out that the UK-EU deal starts from a place of total much money the UK would pay the EU in exchange for access to its market feature heavily in any final deal. Top EU official says Brexit is a 39; for the bloc Top EU official says Brexit is a 39; for the bloc Top EU official says Brexit is a 'wound' for possible, while freeing the UK from strict EU rules. If this is achievable, it would the UK continuing to trade in the EU but being flexible on regulations -- a situation like the US and China. "With the EU, we need a close partnership based on UK is willing to diverge from the EU in areas like tax, food standards and financial regulation, it risks undermining the EU's precious single market -- the EU's that Johnson has plans to undercut the EU, it won't hesitate to restrict access world's largest economic bloc. "For the EU, the trade-off is simple: if the UK diverges and no longer meets EU standards, or British businesses gain an unfair competitive advantage over EU business, then it will have less access to the EU market," says Georgina Wright, an EU expert UK points to trading relationships that the EU has with countries like Canada and Japan UK shares a common border with the EU. And as one EU diplomat points out maintain reasonably strong relations, but on the EU side this clearly has to be appropriate a challenge for both sides, though the EU is concerned that the UK doesn't mutually beneficial agreement, in negotiations with the EU, there is always a winner and a eating it: near-frictionless trade with the EU while enjoying the freedom to do as foreign investment in ways that would flout EU rules on competition. What Brexit will mean Brexit will mean for travelers For the EU, hugging the UK tight and stopping it that in trade deals with both the EU and the US, it is going to he is to extract concessions from the EU and get a deal that looks like other bargaining chips at his disposal: the EU is very keen to reach agreement on § EU leaders fail to agree on new 7 An EU summit has ended with no clear answer EU leaders failed to agree on its new too big to compromise on while the EU Council President Charles Michel said: "We need as a few other nations, believe the EU's 2021-2027 budget, which is intended Germany could make big EU impact in 2020 not been particularly ambitious with regard to EU affairs. But next year provides ample opportunity EU leaders reach agreement over 2020 budget 153.6 billion in disbursements next year. EU leaders called for more funds to tackle § EU rules out Huawei ban — but maps out The EU has said member states should allow Chinese The EU on Wednesday unveiled security guidelines for "high networks such as Huawei in developing the EU's 5G network § Poland could exit EU over judicial reform clash: top Polish court Reuters) - Poland could end up leaving the EU because of plans by the ruling nationalists EU Contradictions between Polish law and EU law ... will in all likelihood lead to an intervention by the EU institutions regarding an infringement of the EU lead to) the need to leave the EU,” Poland’s Supreme Court said in a The EU has accused PiS of politicizing the judiciary The EU had said on Monday it would investigate control have led the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, to begin rule-of theory lead to a suspension of their EU voting rights law and democratic standards with access to EU budget funds Poland joined the EU in 2004 and public support for membership PiS. Poland is a major beneficiary of EU funds for its farmers and infrastructure projects There is no mechanism for the EU to expel a member state. So far 2016. It is expected to exit the EU next month § EU lays out 1 trillion-euro plan to UE BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU plans to dedicate a quarter of its 1 trillion) in investment toward making the EU’s economy more environmentally friendly over the Ursula von der Leyen’s Green Deal, EU officials said the Europe Investment Plan unveiled of her term as president of the EU’s executive arm. Her Green Deal is of the investment will come from the EU budget. National governments will contribute 100 billion 5 billion euros from the 2021-2027 EU budget is earmarked as seed funding within EU leaders agreed last month to make the the plan will depend on discussions between EU countries on the next multi-annual EU Johan Van Overtveldt, the head of the EU parliament’s Budget Committee, was skeptical about Nienass said. “Poland should sign up to EU climate targets before being eligible to money will also be supported by money from EU regional programs, from the InvestEU Program, which mobilizes public and private investment using an EU budget guarantee, and from the European Investment § Council of the EU the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the recent numbers of deaths and injuries. For the EU and its Member States, the widespread and The EU addresses all issues of concern in its European Council Council of the EU Close official website of the Council of the EU and the European Council. It is managed responsible for assisting the Council of the EU and the European Council § he founded, Agrofert, and the non-agricultural EU funds it receives. The conflict of interest Minister, Babiš is involved in negotiations of EU subsidies to the Czech Republic. This final non-agricultural funds and subsidies from the EU since at least from February 2017. The report examining potential conflicts of interest in EU agricultural subsidies to Agrofert is expected next Republic.” “Oligarchic politicians reaping the benefits of EU funding for their private gain completely undermines one of the basic ideas of the EU project,” said Michiel van Hulten, Director of TI EU. “The EU needs to be much more diligent in § innovations, growing community initiatives and stepped up EU action like the European Green Deal the circular and bio-economy. Furthermore, the EU’s sustainable finance initiative is the first gas emission trends and projections in the EU-28, 1990-2050 gas emission trends and projections in the EU-28, 1990-2050 p.158. Based on the final 2019 EU GHG inventory submission to the United Nations on Climate Change and projections reported by EU Member States under the EU Monitoring Mechanism 3. Lead international action towards sustainability. The EU should use its diplomatic and economic influence investment by implementing and building on the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan. 6. Manage offs, and devise ways to manage them. EU and national policies have an essential role society are not at all how the EU has committed to transform its economy and The EEA is an agency of the EU § Council of the EU illegal drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean: EU puts consist of a travel ban to the EU and an asset freeze. Moreover, EU persons European Council Council of the EU Close official website of the Council of the EU and the European Council. It is managed responsible for assisting the Council of the EU and the European Council § EU foreign ministers agree on new mission to The EU will launch a new naval and air weeks of fruitless negotiations and warnings by EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell that the mission could bring more migrants to Europe, EU ships will hail and inspect suspicious vessels Borrell said he hoped the EU operation could be patrolling by the end not Libyan, waters. Borrell also said the EU could not be expected to patrol the Initially Borrell had hoped to revive the EU’s current military mission, known as Operation German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged the EU to agree on a naval mission, saying military, not humanitarian. However, under international law, EU ships are still required to rescue those with no navy, could hold up an EU sea mission to seek a ceasefire in Libya, the EU will also consider a peacekeeping mission if Turkey prefers UN oversight to EU’s Party said the United Nations, not the EU, should oversee the arms embargo on Libya We think the EU overseeing the arms embargo on Libya will realistic results because some countries in the EU directly support Haftar’s side and are EU France presses EU to agree to sanctions against Mali, in § public instant messaging,” the message to the EU’s executive branch says The initiative comes as the EU is attempting to lock down the security June 2018, BuzzFeed News reported that the EU’s embassy in Moscow had been hacked The New York Times reported that the EU’s diplomatic communications network had been hacked § EU votes in favor of choosing a common EU lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to legislate manufacturers European Commission, the body that drafts the EU's laws, to ensure consumers don't the body to find ways for the EU to collect and recycle more cables and chargers. "There is 'an urgent need for EU regulatory action' to reduce electronic waste and empower consumers to make sustainable choices," the EU said. Lawmakers didn't specify what charging Any legislation the EU enacts is likely to affect Apple more so than any other company. When the EU renewed its push for a universal charging C in all their new devices. The EU has been attempting to push manufacturers toward § Rule-of-Law Clash Between Poland and EU Rule-of-Law Clash Between Poland and EU law commitments when the country joined the EU Poland’s government has shrugged off EU complaints, fueling tensions between Warsaw and European European Court of Justice. Administrators in the EU fear that other central European leaders will backing for his plans to reshape the EU following Britain’s exit from the bloc But EU lawmakers say dialogue isn’t enough. They be negotiable.” He is calling on the EU to “stand up for the rule of in theory lead to the country’s EU voting rights being suspended until it corrects mounted a series of legal challenges. The EU’s top court, the European Court of The Polish government says the EU is biased against central European states and government is on a collision course with EU law, but instead of slowing down, it Some EU leaders and lawmakers say future EU grants to Poland should be made conditional discussed in early negotiations for the next EU budget, say diplomats. But Polish leaders say they are confident the EU won’t follow through on threats to Independence of Judges Court Poland Could Exit EU Over Judicial Reform Clash, Says Top Polish Poland Could Exit EU Over Judicial Reform Clash, Says Top Polish § 1. Join EU Democracy 5. EU 1. FOCUS ON … 2. EU Presidency 3. Nordic News 4. EU 1. 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EU 2022 | Efficacité et Transparence des Acteurs Européens. EU § State papers: Thatcher very sceptical about EU The roots of British scepticism towards the EU which eventually led to Brexit were disclosed the Social Charter at the summit of EU leaders § Brexit: Javid comments on non-alignment with EU prompt warnings of price not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules after Brexit. [ ] The chancellor, Sajid Javid not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules after Brexit. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules after Brexit. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters said there would be no alignment with EU regulations once Britain’s exit from the EU was made official not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules as the sector had had three since 2016 that we are leaving the EU which she envisaged close alignment with the EU, in an effort to reduce friction at and import with the rest of the EU from its future right to diverge from EU regulation” but urged government “not to treat economic place was to remain in the EU and the single market. In May 2016 Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator has also warned that free, quota-free trade deal with the EU unless it accepts level-playing field rules said that no regulatory alignment with the EU after Brexit could lead to price rises will not be regulatory alignment with the EU post-Brexit a barrier to frictionless trade with the EU and may well result in price rises concern: “Automotive trade between the UK and EU is uniquely integrated and our priority is begin formally after 25 February when the EU has formally agreed its negotiating goals § Exclusive: Google users in UK to lose EU data protection - sources users’ accounts out of the control of EU privacy regulators, placing them under U.S EU prompted by Britain’s exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of their European headquarters, is staying in the EU, which has one of the world’s had kept British accounts controlled in an EU country with the United Kingdom no longer § EU The Observer view on the EU’s weakness on the world stage der Leyen [ ] Ursula von der Leyen: ‘The EU needs to be more strategic, more assertive Getty Images Ursula von der Leyen: ‘The EU needs to be more strategic, more assertive a difficult start to 2020 for the EU and the new European commission, which took geopolitical” role in international affairs, reflecting the EU’s status as the world’s largest The EU needs to be more strategic, more assertive Leyen told Josep Borrell, the newly nominated EU high representative for foreign and security policy upon humiliation in recent weeks, leaving the EU looking more like an irrelevance than a injury, the US then insisted that the EU The point is that the EU opposes Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy towards mostly refused to play ball. When the EU commission mandated the European Investment Bank to likened to “extortion” by one official. The EU the US trying, and succeeding, to direct EU foreign policy. It left Europe looking miserably Weakness also characterises the EU’s approach to the Libyan conflict, which today under UN and German auspices. But EU states appear at odds over which of agreed. But the Turkish decision to ignore EU pleas and send mercenaries to join the states show how little influence a sidelined EU has or Palestine (where Trump has again ignored EU policy), Europe is punching well below its imitators play destructive global power games, the EU can only watch and fret. And Britain § Google and EU battle in court over €2.4 billion Google and the EU battled in court Wednesday as the search penalties imposed by the European Commission, the EU's powerful anti-trust regulator of the combative tactics taken by the EU commission against big tech Brussels slap a total $9 billion in EU fines, with the giant's Android mobile the company on Wednesday strongly condemned the EU's verdict on shopping in the EU Graf, a lawyer for Google told the EU's General Court The EU and Google have been locked in battle giant sought a negotiated settlement, but the EU abruptly reversed course in 2014 after the of Margrethe Vestager who took over as EU competition chief The case can then go to the EU's highest court, the European Court of The EU's case mirrors similar litigation against Microsoft The company would also underline that the EU case erroneously failed to account for the The EU has already said it was looking into EU court rules in Google's favour in § EU Politics stage ventures and companies – often emanating from EU-funded R today show how public funds in the EU can be deployed to attract private investment the long-term lending institution of the EU owned by its Member States. It makes sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals market segment. In this role, EIF fosters EU objectives in support of innovation, research and Related Topics:EU Up Next EU Economic governance review: Q Future EU-UK relations: Next steps Newsroom EU Politics The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules Greece’s map for trigger the relocation of jobs from one EU Member State to another, which is essential among the most disadvantaged regions in the EU, with a GDP per capita below 75 of EU average. These regions are eligible for aid EU (so-called ‘a’ areas), with maximum aid EU Politics years ago, on 1 January 2002, twelve EU countries changed their national currency banknotes and The euro is a symbol of EU integration and identity. Today, more than 340 million people use it across 19 EU countries, with 27.6 billion euro banknotes it celebrates this 20^th anniversary, the EU continues the work to strengthen the international to promote peace and integration within the EU. But the euro is also a condition isn’t just a success within our EU borders. It has also anchored itself on believe the euro is good for the EU payments and for more than half the EU’s exports and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis, the EU has continued to strengthen and deepen the Economic and Monetary Union. The EU’s unprecedented recovery plan NextGenerationEU will further EU will add significant depth and liquidity to the EU’s capital markets and make them and EU regional and global partner countries of the EU EU Politics The Commission proposes the next generation of EU own resources next generation of own resources for the EU budget by putting forward three new sources on the resources generated by the proposed EU carbon border adjustment mechanism, and the third multinationals that will be re-allocated to EU Member States under the recent OECD/G20 up to €17 billion annually for the EU budget to repay the funds raised by the EU to finance the grant component of NextGenerationEU EU and provide essential support to the Fit EU EU recovery instrument. Once adopted, this package will EU emissions trading reduce net greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by at least 55% by 2030, compared This package includes a revision of the EU Emissions Trading System. In future, emissions trading Under the current EU Emissions Trading System, most revenues from the in future, 25% of the revenue from EU emissions trading flows into the EU budget At cruising speed, revenues for the EU budget are estimated at around €12 billion EU funds, these new revenues would finance the carbon leakage by encouraging producers in non-EU countries to green their production processes. It had the goods been produced in the EU. This mechanism will apply to a targeted The Commission proposes to allocate to the EU budget 75% of the revenues generated by carbon border adjustment mechanism.Revenues for the EU budget are estimated at around €1 billion of in-scope companiesthat are reallocated to EU Member States finalisation of the agreement, revenues for the EU budget could amount to roughly between €2 incorporate these new own resources in the EU budget, the EU needs to amend two the regulation on the current long-term EU budget 2021-2027, also known as the EU already during the current MFF. At the force once it is approved by all EU countries in line with their constitutional requirements § Post-Brexit UK always welcome back in EU, says Timmermans Timmermans writes that British scepticism towards the EU was an asset to the bloc. Photograph Timmermans writes that British scepticism towards the EU was an asset to the bloc. Photograph president, writes that British scepticism of the EU had been an asset to the bloc the British attitude through the decades to EU membership. “It helps you to create a union and single market but not the EU’s decision-making institutions, beyond December 2020 European fishing fleets and, more significantly, the EU demand that the British government sign up always been in two minds about the EU. I wish you had stuck to that § EU flag no longer to be flown at 31 when the UK officially leaves the EU The EU flag will not be flown at the The EU flag will no longer be flown at 31, when the UK officially leaves the EU following the UKʼs decision to leave the EU, the SPCB agreed at its meeting this Scottish Parliament will no longer fly the EU flag on a daily basis § street to celebrate Brexit as UK leaves EU man walked through the crowd with an EU flag draped over his shoulders, another man celebration to mark the UK leaving the EU on Friday night, Britain formally left the EU - although the nature of the future relationship between the EU and the UK is still to be crowd at the Westminster event with an EU flag draped over his shoulders, another man A woman wrapped in an EU flag and a Welsh flag looks on vigil in support of remaining in the EU in Cardiff (Image: Getty Images to get out of the dictatorship. The EU is imposing its authority measures and policies Asked how she thinks EU nationals living in Britain would react, she new era of friendly cooperation between the EU and an energetic Britain, a Britain that § Brexit: EU sombre as UK prepares to end 47 No entire country has ever left the EU before, so there is no protocol on No entire country has ever left the EU before, so there is no protocol on No entire country has ever left the EU before, so there is no protocol on the UK will fall out of all EU decision-making bodies – and the consequences will will be taken down, British access to EU diplomatic cables will be switched off, the UK will go beige on EU maps – the neutral colour of a foreign that grey midsummer morning in Brussels, some EU officials, British and non-British alike, cried in their offices, several EU sources have said. Then Brexit became a what we have worked for,” said one EU diplomat referring to the tortuous negotiations over At the end of the week, three EU presidents will mark this fracture in EU the European commission, Charles Michel, chair of EU leader summits, and David Sassoli, European parliament Steel Community, the precursor of the modern EU. Neither the timing, nor the venue seem No entire country has ever left the EU before, so there is no protocol on British flags in the EU institutions will be taken down by maintenance sent to the House of History, the EU-funded museum in Brussels. At the EU council of ministers, the nerve-centre of EU law-making, the union jacks will be cupboard, along with those of other non-EU states, “third countries” as the EU refers access to the diplomatic cables from 139 EU delegations around the world, draft legislation and decision-making. The switch-off only affects EU internal communications, as the UK will continue to have access to EU crime-fighting databases under the terms of the transition period. EU diplomats have received warnings to check that scrubbed a grey or beige colour on EU online maps, like Switzerland and Norway. Technicians the UK, from updating technical points on EU law, to the educational output aimed at no longer be able to walk into EU buildings. Passes and keys must be returned wielding vetoes on taxation and driving forward EU foreign policy sanctions against rogue states. The where diplomats successfully strategised about reducing the EU budget during all-night talks fuelled by prepare for the UK’s doomed 2017 EU presidency, which never happened. Instead of Cameron For some EU diplomats, Brexit day brings relief. One likened s policy of removing the British from EU meetings § could have a beneficial effect on the EU and help pull the and it has galvanised support for the EU triggered was a lot of support of EU members,” Haavisto said. “They see how difficult have to make if they leave the EU so maybe it’s better to stay that the UK's departure from the EU might pave the way for other members suit, however, Haavisto instead insists that the EU has a way of surviving these perceived been a tough five years for the EU One reason is that somehow we (the EU) have always had to respond to things In order for the EU to thrive Haavisto believes it must get coin unveiled as Britain prepares to leave EU § EU This article is more than 2 years the end of English as an official EU language English as an official language of the EU and in the European parliament? Could it Post-Brexit UK always welcome back in EU, says Timmermans Read more the 1990s, the dominant language of the EU was French. When the EU was the Currently, the EU lists 24 official and working languages. The have nominated a different language as their EU official language. For instance, the Republic of When Britain withdraws from the EU (and leaving aside possible negotiations with Scotland of the referendum, in 2016, the German EU commissioner Günther Oettinger explained, “We have a cease to be a language of the EU? Probably not in the short to medium term, either in conversations between EU member countries, MEPs, or in EU interaction MEP even suggested that communications in the EU could be fairer in English, as it § with Western institutions, chiefly NATO and the EU more closely with Western institutions, including the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO It was Ukraine’s ties with the EU that brought tensions to a head with formalize a closer economic relationship with the EU. Russia had at the same time been reemerged as a top U.S. and EU foreign policy priority. Other top U.S a major focus of U.S. and EU policy What are U.S. and EU policy in Ukraine the defense, energy, and financial sectors. The EU and countries including Australia, Canada, and Japan businessman Petro Poroshenko, a staunch proponent of EU and NATO integration, as president. In 2019 Despite Ukraine’s push for NATO and EU membership, recent polls indicate that public opinion and contested regions in the east) support EU membership, just 40 to 50 percent are § MPR Partners logo Alina Popescu Flavia Ștefura EU February 25 2020 1. Background at the core of these changes. The EU strives to harness the power of data effective single market for data in the EU (the “Digital Strategy”). On the same day investments in digital innovation, to complement the EU funding that shall be made available; 4 tech giants and SMEs; 3. to adapt EU competition law rules to the digital environment needs shows proficiency of policy making at EU level. We will closely follow the developments of the Court of Justice of the EU § a problem. Once the UK leaves the EU, Johnson plans to immediately start negotiating a UK will be formally out of the EU, but still subject to all its rules the UK staying more aligned to the EU. That's because his large majority means louder. Scotland voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 Brexit Referendum, and the country is "being dragged out" of the EU against its will. While Johnson has rejected leaders have welcomed the election results. The EU didn't want the UK to leave Michel said while speaking in Brussels. "The EU will negotiate in order to have close § Foreign Affairs Council (Brussels, 15 November 2021) EU-AU ministerial meeting (Kigali, Oct. 26) (Luxembourg UE § Scotland's commitment to the EU Scotland will continue to work with the EU over the next five years, despite Brexit explain how Scotland will contribute to the EU’s priorities Scotland is being taken out of the EU against its democratic will – but the Scottish engages, but it will not change the EU’s importance to Scotland, nor our commitment to become an independent country within the EU. Whatever our constitutional future, Scotland will remain sets out four shared priorities for the EU and for Scotland Read the full document: The EU’s Strategic Agenda for 2020-24: Scotland § 20 challenges awaiting EU in 2020 20 challenges awaiting EU in 2020 EU seeks delicate compromise between national interests, reforms Szucs | 02.01.2020 20 challenges awaiting EU in 2020 despite alterations in the political landscape of EU institutions, divisions in key policy areas remained states, and 2020 will test whether the EU can overcome these disagreements, unlock the stalled Reforming the EU’s migration and asylum policy is one couldn’t find a solution that all EU member states would have accepted, so now 1 - Borders and security: Defending the EU’s external borders against illegal migration and one of the few topics that all EU leaders can subscribe to. The relatively easy funds and to extend the mandate of EU agencies dealing with border management and internal application puts an unfair burden on the EU’s border countries. The cornerstone of the content of the procedure, a well-functioning EU asylum system would require a more unified migration: By the end of 2019, the EU fully mobilized its €6 billion ($6.65 The budget was agreed by the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement, meant to stop the irregular five more years, but recent tensions in EU-Turkey diplomatic relations made the renewal of 5 - Strengthening the EU’s global role: The draft for the funding for partner countries out of the EU in their political and economic transformations towards of the most widely debated topics in EU politics last year. Aiming to enhance the can eventually lead to Poland exiting the EU because its legal system won’t be their peers in the Council of the EU through the Article 7 procedure. Undeterred by criticism on systemic corruption and misuse of EU funds. The government categorically rejects the allegations for Hungary’s opposing migration from non-EU countries. The rule of law procedure will island might be the next country under EU scrutiny because of the scandalous investigation of 9 - Misuse of EU funds: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office to start working in 2020. The independent EU body is tasked with prosecuting and bringing to judgment crimes against the EU budget such as fraud, corruption or serious 10 - Rule of law conditionality: EU funds may be suspended or completely withheld tool to pressure member states to respect EU values because the Article 7 procedure turned who consider themselves main contributors to the EU budget, Eastern Europeans find it unacceptable. But that the U.K. will leave the EU on Jan. 31 after Prime Minister Boris would ask for special treatment and the EU would be reluctant to grant favors for the U.K. after 2019’s last EU summit which will be based on zero the U.K.’s customs zone, different EU rules and tariffs will be applied on 13 - EU nationals in the U.K.: EU nationals legally residing and working in the on Scotland’s independence after her pro-EU SNP party won 48 of Scotland’s t only challenge British domestic politics. The EU also needs to actualize its position on billion) net loss per year in the EU’s budget. If one strictly looks at the common budget than it received from EU funds. The loss will logically harm the a bill that has such profound consequences. EU officials will also have to face campaigns the shifting priorities of the 2021-2027 EU budget, which significantly reduces cohesion and agricultural raise the already significant tension around the EU’s next multi-annual financial framework as European Green Deal at 2019’s last EU leaders summit. European heads of state and it will be fully covered by the EU’s own budget or will only give Brexit EU European Comission European Green Deal Ireland Jean EU welcomes 1st meeting between Turkiye, Armenia on EU welcomes 1st meeting between Turkiye, Armenia on EU rejects Russia’s attempts to ‘build spheres Ghana ‘delighted’ following removal from EU money laundering list Ghana ‘delighted’ following removal from EU money laundering list Italy holds state funeral for EU parliament chief David Sassoli Italy holds state funeral for EU parliament chief David Sassoli UK foreign secretary hails ‘good talks’ with EU UK foreign secretary hails ‘good talks’ with EU § is a relentless momentum towards making the EU climate neutral by 2050. This marries up formal political-legal EU ambition with the international Paris Agreement, where in a well-developed form in the EU, most notably under the EU Emissions Trading carbon border tax targeting imports from non-EU countries with less strict climate policies – will competitiveness, ensuring a just transition across the EU, protecting the natural environment and biodiversity, strategic drive decarbonisation across the breadth of the EU’s socio-economic sectors. This means in economy – a position diametrically opposed to the EU’s “decarbonisation equals growth” type of ideology stimulate and expand the economy, and the EU’s coffers will gradually overflow. In other So significant future trade negotiations between the EU and US may run into problems, for regime has yet to be passed into EU law and policy (the commission intends to history demonstrates that the complex machinery of EU governance makes substantial changes to its climate The EU has been a relatively progressive actor on have severely struggled to meet even current EU climate obligations Given the gravity of climate change, the EU institutions are right to press the case § EU Valediction – forbidding mourning thoughts on leaving the EU Britain and Denmark; my education in the EU’s laws at its university in the I have made professional visits to the EU’s four main institutions, and have for was one of the authors of the EU Constitution (the Lisbon Treaty as it became equate to belief in membership of the EU The flaws of the EU are as extensive as the corpus of national constitution. Yet they are basic to EU law the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU has always been a particularly acute moral makes it equally fundamental law that the EU itself shall be precisely what it outlaws But perhaps even more basically, the EU has been judged undemocratic, by minds as Foot. The point comes down to this: EU laws are not made by and at of member-states’ wish to constrain the EU’s power as out of a policy through the agency of unelected officialdom. The EU could be rendered absolutely democratic, by endowing the EU Parliament with absolute sovereignty – but the coalition accountability, and accountability to democracy. Here the EU fails. Who shall narrate its Co-decision 207 T.F.EU?; Commission legislation under Treaty powers?; Commission legislation Remainers have seemed able to explain how EU laws are made, while people marched in Is the alienating complexity of EU legislative procedure undemocratic? In the Venetian Republic effects is the over-reaching detail of EU regulation of ordinary life. Less could have of art. 5 of the Treaty on EU’s verbose failure to articulate a chief ranking of constitutions as literary works, the EU treaties have ended up looking more like be better ways of doing things. But EU harmonization and established nation-state democracy could a model which, on the whole, the EU rejected. In private law, the admirable work each community that its law - native or EU-harmonized – is its own, because it is parodied it – as the written body of EU law, which regularly trips up even the begin to remedy the way in which EU law curiously turned its back on much OECD, and many more specialist associations. The EU as we have known it may prove Or it may yet prove that the EU can be the most useful of all what is beautiful, all long precede every EU Directive and will long outlast them all No one needs the EU in order to be European. Only dull text of the Draft Constitution for the EU, in the European Constitutional Group’s Proposal § highlighted that Libra cannot proceed in the EU until there is legal clarity and said He noted that EU law already addressed anti-money laundering for virtual currencies and that EU Member States had a deadline of January UE § EU drops idea of facial recognition ban in BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU has scrapped the possibility of a ban § Brexit talks: EU chief questions feasibility of Johnson's time the UK’s future relationship with the EU after Brexit, Ursula von der Leyen has Once the UK leaves the EU on 31 January it will remain in deal covering all aspects of the current EU-UK relationship, from trade to internal security applied to goods being sold into the EU market be extending the implementation period. Both the EU and the UK committed to agreeing a A leaked EU document seen by the Guardian lays out According to the paper, EU diplomats representing the member states will on sector to continue to operate within the EU through a decision on the “adequacy” of UK will need to sign up to EU fiscal, environmental and social standards citizens travelling between the UK and the EU, and future British involvement in the EU § Croatia's EU presidency: What will it bring for Europe the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council. With countries wanting both in and out of the bloc, what can the EU’s youngest member do Flags of the EU and Croatia the country's upcoming presidency of the EU Council. Media and politicians are agreed that on Wednesday, the youngest member of the EU will serve as first among equals for will be held under its presidency; the EU's highest representatives, as well as hordes is expected of any country holding the EU presidency that it will set its own more: What's in store for the EU in 2020 Migration and EU border protection as the "Balkan route." Although not all EU states will say so openly, the majority to allow as few refugees into the EU as possible, and Croatia implements this very to get through to Croatian — and thus EU territory — are immediately sent back that everything is done in accordance with EU regulations and that no violations of the that's supposed to protect the external [EU] border, it, of course, looks different compared be a 'fair and honest broker' as EU leader Western Balkans and EU enlargement of the declared aims of Croatia's EU Council presidency is to press ahead with are also on the agenda. A separate EU summit will also be held to address Read more: EU's broken promises in the Balkans lead EU holds accession talks with Western Balkans also a dispute about plans for an EU-funded bridge across a Bosnian-Herzegovinian bay Kingdom is scheduled to formally leave the EU on January 31. After that, negotiations over Britain's future relations with the EU, including a free trade agreement, will begin We want to help all EU members and the European Parliament to ratify the treaty ending British EU membership as early as January, so that Michel Barnier will continue to be the EU's main Brexit negotiator. In any case Opinion: The EU in 2020 — old ideas dressed up in New people, old problems: The EU is facing major challenges in the year § Secretary General: NATO-EU cooperation has reached unprecedented levels Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed closer NATO-EU cooperation, including on maritime security, military mobility the Secretary General’s regular engagements with EU institutions § to reach a trade agreement with the EU - is expected to be ratified without any §