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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan 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:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report 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...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So 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.)...
Blog Archive
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Trade war over gambling
Posted on 30/01/2013 | No CommentsInternational trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally colonised as a site for sugar plantations, the decline of the Antiguan sugar industry has... -
The wrong conclusion on welfare reform
Posted on 24/01/2013 | No CommentsIn his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per cent of world welfare spending. This is a striking statistic but is it actually something... -
The Speech
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsSo 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.) David Cameron wants to renegotiate the terms of British membership of the EU and put... -
A bit off
Posted on 22/01/2013 | No CommentsIf 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 central claim is that the EU does too much, so there are policies that should... -
Dam!
Posted on 18/01/2013 | No CommentsThe 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 manage the water resources of the region. The Mekong river is 4,350km long, rising in... -
Speech, interrupted
Posted on 18/01/2013 | No CommentsThe 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 a terrorist attack on a gas installation in Algeria which provides rather more pressing duties... -
A lack of leadership
Posted on 18/01/2013 | No CommentsIt 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, but that’s hardly surprising when nobody is willing to put the opposite case. And yesterday... -
Does Europe need a new treaty?
Posted on 11/01/2013 | No CommentsA 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 towards a new European treaty. (Read the paper here.) The present EU institutions are incapable... -
Silence where a policy should be
Posted on 08/01/2013 | No CommentsThe 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 and, at the next election, competing political parties, what they think of as their achievements... -
Can David Cameron save the unions?
Posted on 21/12/2012 | No CommentsThe 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 and then. For the same reason that a referendum on EU membership while the eurozone...
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