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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.)...
Labour party Archive
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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... -
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,... -
We are all sceptics now
Posted on 22/11/2012 | No CommentsAn interesting debate unfolds about how Labour should square its support for the European Union with its criticism of many of the most important EU policies. Its recent support for the Tory eurosceptic amendment on the budget, calling for a cut rather than David Cameron’s... -
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... -
What patterns of share ownership tell us
Posted on 06/12/2011 | 1 CommentAn interesting statistic reported by Professor Prem Sikka in the Guardian today, regarding the ownership of British companies. The proportion of the shares in UK-listed companies owned by foreign investors has increased from 6.6 per cent in 1969 to 41.5 per cent in 2008. The... -
The Thin Red Line
Posted on 29/11/2011 | No CommentsI have written an article for the European Movement magazine reflecting on Labour’s new European policy (read What is Labour thinking? on page 6 here). Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander is seeking to reduce the gap between Conservative and Labour policies on Europe by acknowledging... -
Good politics, now all Labour needs is a policy
Posted on 26/10/2011 | No CommentsBy 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 Tory divisions on Europe. It seemed like statesmanship to be offering to dig the prime... -
Will Ed Miliband revive pro-European politics?
Posted on 29/09/2010 | 3 CommentsFollowing new Labour leader Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday at the Labour party conference, I was delighted when he declared that one of his political heroes was William Beveridge. Wow, me too! Beveridge was one of the leading supporters of Federal Union in its early days,... -
Britain, Europe and the general election
Posted on 14/04/2010 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Today’s conference has been looking at the Europe policies of the different political parties. I will speak about the Liberal Democrats’ policies in a moment but I want to preface my remarks with a comment about why we are interested in the... -
Does Labour support joining the euro?
Posted on 28/05/2009 | 1 CommentThe Vote Match website – which you can visit here – reveals some interesting facts about what parties think. One of the most interesting is Labour policy on the euro. The statement that was put was “The UK should join the European single currency (Euro)”,...
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