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Friday 27 January 2017
UK govt gives lawmakers limited time to eye bill on Brexit

the process of leaving the that the government had
28-nation bloc. fought for months to keep
The Commons will begin them from scrutinizing the
debate on the bill on Jan. measure, were furious that
31 and it is set to go to the they would get such a short
House of Lords on Feb. 8. time to consider what is
Prime Minister Theresa May possibly the most influential
is rushing to meet a self-im- government move in gen-
posed deadline of March erations.
31 for triggering Article 50 One pro-EU lawmaker,
of the EU treaty, which will Chris Leslie, said the House
launch two years of talks on was getting far less time “to
Britain’s future relationship debate the legislation that
with the bloc after more takes us out of the EU than
than 40 years of member- we did previous European
ship. Voters approved Brit- treaties.”
ain’s EU exit in a June 23 “This is the most significant
referendum. law we’ve ever debated
“I trust that Parliament, on our relationship with
which backed the refer- Europe and yet the gov-
endum by six-to-one, will ernment will only give it an
respect the decision taken eighth of the time that was
by the British people and spent on the Maastricht
In this 2009 photo, the then British lawmaker David Davies attends a press conference in London.
Davies, Britain’s minister for leaving the EU on Thursday Jan. 26, 2017, introduced the long-awaited pass the legislation quick- Treaty,” he said.
bill that will launch Britain’s exit from the 28-nation bloc, as the government rushed to offer the ly,” Davis said. Erika Szyszczak, a European
legislative framework for its departure. The text of the measure law expert from the Univer-
(AP Photo/Alastair Grant) was brief. It stated that the sity of Sussex, said Maas-
DANICA KIRKA long-awaited bill to start secretary in charge of Brex- prime minister “may notify, tricht was thrashed out for
Associated Press the country’s exit from the it, unveiled the legislation under Article 50 (2) of the weeks.
LONDON (AP) — As Brit- European Union and gave just two days after a Su- Treaty on European Union, “This bill is yet again anoth-
ish lawmakers cried out the House of Commons less preme Court ruling that tor- the United Kingdom’s in- er example of the political
“Disgraceful!,” the Con- than two weeks to consider pedoed the government’s tention to withdraw from ground constantly shifting
servative government on it. effort to avoid a parlia- the EU.” when it comes to Brexit,”
Thursday introduced the David Davis, the Cabinet mentary vote on starting Some lawmakers, mindful she said. q
Austrian police arrest 14 suspected of Islamic State links

“parallel society ... an at- for “a longer time,” sug-
GEORGE JAHN tempt to create a kind of gesting no immediate link.
Associated Press theocracy in Austria.” Pilnacek did not rule out
VIENNA (AP) — Heav- Two of the 12 locations raid- some overlap to Mirsad
ily armed SWAT teams ed were Muslim social cen- Omerovic, a Serbian-born
supported by hundreds of ters also used as mosques, Islamic cleric sentenced
other officers detained 14 Pilnacek said. The people last year in Graz to 20 years
people suspected of hav- arrested also are suspect- in prison for recruiting doz-
ing ties to the Islamic State ed of recruiting around 40 ens of young men to fight
group in early-morning people to fight for Islamic for the Islamic State group.
raids on Thursday, Austrian extremist groups in the Mid- But he said he could not
officials said. east, he said. say there was a “direct
An earlier statement from The police sweep came connection” in the cases of
the public prosecutor’s of- less than a week after po- all of those detained.
fice in Graz said there were lice in Vienna detained a Most of them, including
eight arrests in twin opera- Masked police officers carry computers out of a house in Graz, 17-year-old they describe some with Austrian nation-
tions there and in Vienna Austria, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Austrian police arrested eight as belonging to “radical ality, had Balkan anteced-
involving 800 police. But suspected terrorists Thursday in a series of early-morning raids Salafist” circles who they ents, he said. State broad-
Justice Ministry official Chris- in the country’s two largest cities that mobilized heavily armed said has confessed to ex- caster ORF, citing the pub-
tian Pilnacek later said the SWAT teams and hundreds of officers supporting them. perimenting with building a lic prosecutor in Graz, said
discrepancy was between (Puls4 via AP) bomb. a Syrian national also was
the eight arrest warrants is- — actually detained. nacek said those detained But the prosecutor’s state- among the detained, who
sued and the 14 people — Besides suspected links to were being investigated for ment said Thursday’s op- ranged in age from 21 to
11 men and three women the Islamic State group, Pil- attempts to try to set up a eration had been planned 49.q