18:30 – 20:00, Drinks from 18:00 Tuesday 24th April 2012 Knapp Gallery, Regent’s College London As Britain’s membership of the European Union continues to be an area of political and
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Organised by the Aston Centre for Europe, together with the European Commission, Our conference will bring together politicians, bankers, journalists, academics and seasoned Brussels watchers in order to examine two
The fallout from last night’s European Council summit in Brussels is still falling out, but I think it is possible now to identify the main lines of what was and
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A Federal Europe in the Making? Europe 2020, the European Semester and the Euro Plus Pact – A Half-Day Conference Wednesday 7th December 2011, 09.45-14.00 The Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
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The benefits of British membership of the European Union are so profound and far-reaching that its opponents have to twist themselves into all kinds of knots in order to try
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By Sir Julian Priestley Labour’s decision to put a three-line whip on the vote on an in/out referendum was a good decision. It moved the focus to the resurgence of
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In the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In
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THE COALITION AND EUROPE AFTER THE HONEYMOON – A NEW SERIES OF CONFERENCES 13 OCTOBER – THE UK AND THE EUROPEAN BUDGET EUROPE HOUSE, 32 SMITH SQUARE, LONDON SW1P 3EU
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I spoke at a debate earlier this week organised by the Spectator, with the subject of “Is it time to leave the EU?”; naturally, I was against the motion. Also
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Tory MP Mark Pritchard writes in the Daily Telegraph today calling for a two-stage referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union. The first stage is a referendum next year