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Should the UK hold an In/Out referendum on EU membership?
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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.)...
Greece Archive
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Overwhelming
Posted on 18/05/2012 | 2 CommentsThis blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and destroy many people’s savings and investments. However, given that the latest news from Greece –... -
A special case
Posted on 22/02/2012 | 1 CommentA second bailout loan for Greece has been agreed at a European summit, to stave off imminent bankruptcy for the government with all that implies. No-one knows for sure what is implied by bankruptcy, but it can’t be good, which is why an agreement, with... -
Greek default position
Posted on 17/02/2012 | No CommentsLetter in the Daily Telegraph SIR – Peter Oborne calls for Greece to be “allowed to default and devalue” (Comment, February 16). It does not need to be allowed: it is already free to do so. It would mean turning its back on economic integration... -
Whatever it takes?
Posted on 15/02/2012 | No CommentsGermany, we were told, would do whatever it takes to save the euro. Such a clear, unequivocal commitment should serve to reassure the markets and convince the public that the European Union would be put back on the right road. However, such a commitment cannot... -
The agony of Greece
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 1 CommentThe word agony comes from the Greek agōnia, meaning struggle, and struggle there certainly is. Can the Greek government implement the changes deemed necessary by the other EU governments in order for them to continue lending money to keep the Greek state afloat? Can the... -
Federal Union review of 2011
Posted on 09/01/2012 | No CommentsLast year was dominated by the crisis in the eurozone. It dominated the debate about the future of European integration, obviously, but has also turned out to be a major influence both in the UK and around the world. Taking Europe first, it is absurd... -
Is Germany doing enough to save the euro?
Posted on 13/12/2011 | 3 CommentsDebate at King’s College London, on 12 December 2011, on the subject of “Germany has not taken enough proactive steps to solve the eurozone crisis, despite being at the top table of European politics and its economic standing.” Richard Laming was asked to speak against... -
What went wrong with the euro?
Posted on 16/11/2011 | 1 CommentPeter Oborne’s campaign against the pro-Europeans took another step yesterday with his online debate with David Aaronovitch. The latter was one of the targets in his recent book “The guilty men”, and the Centre for Policy Studies hosted an exchange of views between them on... -
Who’s deposing whom?
Posted on 15/11/2011 | 2 CommentsIf man proposes and God disposes, it is the bond market that deposes. Two prime ministers have resigned in the past week – George Papandreou of Greece and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy – to be replaced by bankers of no known party political affiliation. Formally,... -
A referendum in Greece?
Posted on 04/11/2011 | No CommentsIt is hard, at the time of writing, to know what to make of the suggestion that there should be a referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout agreed by the eurozone governments. The idea was floated by the Greek prime minister George...