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No end to the controversy
Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union: […]
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The Speech
So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.) […]
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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 […]
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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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Prospects for a referendum on Europe
Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a […]
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The UK’s 2014 opt-out: what future for the UK within EU police and criminal justice co-operation? (31 January 2013)
The European Movement and The Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre, in association with JUSTICE, are holding an event to discuss the UK government’s decision on whether to opt out of […]
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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 […]