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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.)...
Britain and the EU Archive
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No end to the controversy
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsBrendan 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: “Despite the publicity that has surrounded it, it is very difficult to believe that Mr... -
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... -
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... -
Prospects for a referendum on Europe
Posted on 15/01/2013 | No CommentsReport 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 plan for a referendum on Europe. All that remains unclear are the question, the timing,... -
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... -
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... -
On Governing Europe (10 January 2013)
Posted on 13/12/2012 | No Comments5.00 – 7.00pm – Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU We are today living through what may well be a process of refounding the European Union. Will this refoundation succeed? What might it look like? What would be Britain’s role in this refounded... -
Party views of a referendum on Europe
Posted on 16/10/2012 | 2 CommentsThe prospect of a referendum on British membership of the EU continues to hang over British politics. (Federal Union has warned of the reasons why such a referendum might not be as neat and democratic as it sounds here, but there remain plenty of people... -
There may be trouble ahead: the Coalition’s European policy (23 May 2012)
Posted on 03/05/2012 | No Comments23 May – There may be trouble ahead: the Coalition’s European policy Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU 4.00 – 6.30 pm followed by a drinks reception As you know, over the past six months the Federal Trust has been running a series...
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