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To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are currently discussing with the European
Commission and other European Union member states, with regards to renegotiation:
(1) a United Kingdom opt-out from "ever closer union"; (2) reducing the impact of
red tape and "excessive interference" from Brussels on businesses, in particular small
and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, and the City of London; (3) the balance of
competences regarding social and employment law, in particular access of EU migrants
to in-work and out-of-work benefits; (4) ensuring that eurozone member states cannot
impose changes to the single market without the agreement on non-eurozone members;
(5) the ability for individual member states to negotiate trade deals with third countries;
(7) reducing the EU budget; (8) introducing EU-wide transparency laws similar to those
in the United Kingdom; (9) allowing member states greater control over migration;
(10) giving national parliaments greater powers to block EU legislation; (11) permitting
businesses to sell goods in imperial as well as metric units; (12) obliging food producers
to apply country-of-origin labelling; and (13) returning control of agriculture and
fisheries policies to member states; and what assessment they have made of the relative
importance of these policy areas within an overall renegotiation package.
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