opt-outs

• “Some EU countries that don't use the euro, such as the U.K., are expected to seek exemptions known as opt-outs from some of the common policies that bind euro members tighter together.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Support Grows for New EU Treaty to Boost Fiscal Ties in Euro Zone

• “The consequences of a sharp rise in opt-outs are potentially catastrophic for the funding of schemes in the short and medium term.”

  The Guardian: The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain

• “The Conservative head of the Local Government Association, Baroness Eaton, has already warned that if average rises in pension contributions of more than 3% are forced on hundreds of thousands of local government workers there will be mass opt-outs from its pension scheme.”

  The Guardian: The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain

• “Until recently, it seemed that the euro zone would continue to recruit new members until only the three nations with opt-outs—the U.K., Sweden and Denmark—were left clinging on to their national currencies.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Ins and Outs of Future European Integration

• “Under pressure from the Lib Dems, there was no mention of repatriation of powers or opt-outs from labour market legislation.”

  The Guardian: The political and personal failings of David Cameron | Observer editorial

• “If the EU suggests policies we don't like, there are opt-outs and compromises galore, hardly the anti-democratic monster of sceptic imagination.”

  The Guardian: 'As an act of crass stupidity, this has rarely been equalled' | Will Hutton

• “Maastricht also established the principle of the two-speed EU, with its dangerously comforting opt-outs.”

  The Guardian: David Cameron's euro endgame | Bernard Jenkin

• “The ruling follows a complaint from the National Secular Society, which argued that the opt-outs went further than was permitted under the directive and had created “illegal discrimination against homosexuals”.”

  Churches in UK must lift ban on employing homosexuals « Anglican Samizdat

• “His demand for a series of "safeguards," including opt-outs from single market rules and preempting the European Court of Justice's ruling on the ECB's location policy, would have effectively given the U.K. a veto over European financial regulation and guaranteed the U.K.'s offshore-onshore relationship with the euro zone in perpetuity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Leaders Appear to Have No Answer on City's Future Role

• “Honestly, I thought “opt-outs” was a dead issue weeks ago.”

  While others debate… « Dating Jesus

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