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Contorted arguments against EU membership
Posted on 14/11/2011 | 4 CommentsThe 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 and construct an argument against it. People from either side of the left-right political spectrum... -
Is it time to leave the EU?
Posted on 23/09/2011 | No CommentsI 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 on our side were Denis MacShane MP and Phillip Souta, director of Business for New... -
London 2012: who will get the Olympic tickets?
Posted on 08/06/2011 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 8 June 2011 Olympic fever is spreading in the United Kingdom and, as with all fevers, it is raising temperatures and causing a headache. The games themselves will be held in London in July and August 2012, but the... -
There is another way
Posted on 01/11/2010 | No CommentsProfessor Stephen Haseler, a frequent personality on this website, launched his new book last Thursday, “Meltdown UK: there is another way”. He argued that the neo-liberal economic theory that lay behind the rapid expansion and financialisation of the global economy had been conclusively discredited by... -
Can the UK afford a financial services industry?
Posted on 21/02/2010 | No CommentsIt is surely a matter of national pride that a country with only 1 per cent of the world’s population who generate 4% of the world’s GDP can have such a large financial sector. Something like 17 per cent of the world’s international lending is... -
Achievements over the past 20 years
Posted on 27/10/2009 | 1 CommentI went to an interesting discussion this morning on the achievements of the European Union over the past 20 years. There were many of them mentioned: enlargement; the euro; some developments in CFSP; and, interestingly, the creation of a European policy on mergers and competition.... -
British jobs for British workers
Posted on 04/02/2009 | 1 CommentPeter Oborne, writing in the Daily Mail, is correct to criticise Gordon Brown’s apparent commitment to “British jobs for British workers”, but he is wrong to say that “our membership of the European Union means there is nothing that a British government can do to... -
Immobility
Posted on 03/02/2009 | No CommentsThe dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of the EU is that of the free movement of workers. The single market is founded... -
Sir Howard Davies: Europe’s banks need a federal fix
Posted on 14/01/2009 | No Comments“Are we content to see banks from other, especially small European, countries take deposits across the continent on the same basis as before? Increasingly, supervisors and governments in larger states are answering No. But what are the consequences of denying banks that right? “In principle,... -
More federalism needed in the financial sector
Posted on 14/01/2009 | 1 CommentAn interesting article in the Financial Times today by Sir Howard Davies – read it here – points out the consequences of banking crashes in small countries. A bank in any member state of the EU (actually, the EEA, which is the EU plus Norway,...
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