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Why does the EU find the foreign agent law in Georgia against their values?
The draft law would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents".
The EU, which gave Georgia candidate status in December, has ...
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Is UK vaccine rollout really a Brexit benefit?
I heard multiple times from different UK government officials that the UK did really good with Covid-19 vaccine rollout because the UK left the EU.
Is this true?
What EU policy/law would have forced ...
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What happens to Scotland energy if it leaves the UK? [closed]
If Scotland leaves the UK and joins the EU, does its current arrangement with England change?
I understand the EU has some sort of a system to distribute energy among members. If Scotland becomes part ...
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How did the UK race ahead of France in GDP
Source of data
In 2019,
GDP of the UK was 2,743.586 Billion USD, while that of France was 2,707.074 B.
That is just a difference of 1.33 percent. Some might even dismiss it as noise.
In 2022 however,...
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Is the UK not member of Schengen, Customs Union, Economic Area, Free Trade Association among others anymore now after Brexit?
I have picture showing where the UK is now compared to other countries. (Outside of European Free Trade Association, European Economic Area, Schengen Area, European Union, Eurozone, EU Customs Union).
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Why is working from home/green commute not seriously considered by Western governments to tackle climate change and to reduce Russian oil use?
In the time of the pandemic, working from home was widespread in most European countries including the UK, which led to a drop in fuel prices. However, during the war in Ukraine, working from home was ...
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Legality of NATO countries freezing assets of friends and family of Putin
Ignoring people such as Russian government members and Russian parliament members, I am asking about the legality of the freezing the assets (where susceptible to such freezes) of people who are ...
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Reselling and tariffs between China/UK and EU
If a reseller in England imports a widget from China they will pay the UK's China->UK tariff for that good.
If they then sell that widget to a customer in Spain (in the EU), will the Spanish ...
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Has the UK enacted any changes in laws that would've been impossible while being an EU member?
The UK has left the EU and one of the biggest arguments in support was that idea that they could enact legislation that goes against EU rules, whether on trade with other nations, privacy, security, ...
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Is there any plausible reading of the DoT terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol under which they are not self-defeating?
Under the Protocol the UK government is responsible for applying checks on goods entering NI from the rest of the UK to ensure that goods destined for the Republic of Ireland meet EU regulations. This ...
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Why did UK and EU agree NI Protocol with clause allowing unilateral action in the event of diversion of trade (DOT) when they knew DOT was inevitable?
Under the Protocol the UK government is responsible for applying checks on goods entering NI from the rest of the UK to ensure that goods destined for the Republic of Ireland meet EU regulations. This ...
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If the UK invokes Art 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, will the EU require a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland [closed]
Under the Protocol the UK government is responsible for applying checks on goods entering NI from Great Britain to ensure that goods destined for the Republic of Ireland meet EU regulations. This is ...
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Has the UK's HMRC begun the process of inspecting arrivals of EU goods?
It was made clear at the start that notwithstanding EU checks on UK movements into the single market, Britain would delay its implementation of checks.
Have they now begun?
If not will it cause yet ...
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Can a future UK government decide to rejoin the EU without a referendum?
Can a future UK government decide to rejoin the EU without a referendum or do they have to hold one?
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Why does Boris Johnson seek to renegotiate the Brexit deal with the EU?
The UK wants to renegotiate the Brexit deal with the EU, mostly because of Northern Ireland's current (and future) situation. The EU immediately rejected the offer.
My question is: Why does Boris ...
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