A bit off
If a future British government wants to renegotiate membership of the EU, the Fresh Start group of Tory MPs has published its view of what that renegotiation should achieve. The […]
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Dam!
The intergovernmental way of doing business took another knock yesterday at a meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), a body that brings together Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia to
Speech, interrupted
The will he? won’t he? was finally settled, with a date of 18 January in Amsterdam for David Cameron’s speech on Europe. But then reality intervened in the form of
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A lack of leadership
It has been a consistent theme of this website that Britain’s role in Europe is declining because of a lack of leadership. Yes, public opinion is drifting against the EU,
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Does Europe need a new treaty?
A talk last night by Andrew Duff MEP, president of the UEF and author of a recent paper, “On governing Europe”, in which he outlined the need for and route
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Silence where a policy should be
The coalition government’s mid-term review and relaunch yesterday gave us an update on what they think they have achieved. Of course, because the coalition is made up of two separate
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Can David Cameron save the unions?
The promise by the prime minister of a new policy on Europe to be outlined in a speech in January rules out most useful comment on the issue between now
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Can the press be controlled?
The proposals from the Leveson inquiry into the behaviour of the British press, which reported last month, include the call for a legal backstop to independent regulation. The Press Complaints
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We are all sceptics now
An interesting debate unfolds about how Labour should square its support for the European Union with its criticism of many of the most important EU policies. Its recent support for
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Bringing sense to the EU budget debate
David Cameron wants a freeze; the House of Commons has voted for a cut. What should happen to the EU budget? Opposition in the UK to the budget increase proposed
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