This is interesting from today’s Handelsblatt. The paper has apparently seen the CDU’s draft manifesto ahead of the European elections. As a reminder: the CDU is Angela Merkel’s party, which, along with its sister party, the CSU, won a landslide wi…
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Cameron's EU speech, CDU, EU reform, germany, handelsblatt, renegotiation, repatriation of powers |
This is interesting from today’s Handelsblatt. The paper has apparently seen the CDU’s draft manifesto ahead of the European elections. As a reminder: the CDU is Angela Merkel’s party, which, along with its sister party, the CSU, won a landslide …
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Cameron's EU speech, CDU, EU reform, germany, handelsblatt, renegotiation, repatriation of powers |
Dutch PM Mark Rutte (VVD) and Foreign Minister FransTimmermans (PVdA) discussing what the EU shouldand should not be doing?For anyone involved in the EU reform debate, this is a must-read. The Dutch government has today published its “subsidiarity re…
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Cameron's EU speech, dutch politics, ECJ, EU budget, EU quangos, EU reform, EU social policy, EU structural funds, Netherlands, repatriation of powers, subsidiarity, working time directive |
The new German anti-euro party Alternative für Deutschland’s radically different take on the eurozone compared with the rest of the German political establishment has generated a lot of interest both inside Germany and beyond. As such it was no surp…
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AFD, bernd lucke, britain in europe, Cameron's EU speech, ECB, eurozone bailouts |
May 28, 2013
There has been a lot of debate recently about what the UK public really want in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU. In an attempt to shed some further light on this Open Europe has today released a new poll conducted by ComRes.The result…
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, in-out, poll, renegotiation, repatriation of powers, UK-EU relations, UKIP |
There has been a lot of debate recently about what the UK public really want in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU. In an attempt to shed some further light on this Open Europe has today released a new poll conducted by ComRes.The result…
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, EU exit, in-out, poll, renegotiation, repatriation of powers, UK-EU relations, UKIP |
There has been a lot of debate recently about what the UK public really want in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU. In an attempt to shed some further light on this Open Europe has today released a new poll conducted by ComRes.The result…
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, EU exit, european elections, in-out, poll, renegotiation, repatriation of powers, UK-EU relations, UKIP |
May 20, 2013
When it comes to the question of whether the UK ought to stay in the EU there are two key considerations. Is continued membership the best solution from an economic perspective (trade, regulation etc) and also is it democratically sustainable? (Others …
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Cameron's EU speech, democracy, democratic deficit, public opinion, referendum, UK-EU relations, Westminster |
May 14, 2013
David Cameron just sent out this note to Conservative members and activists: In January, I set out our party’s position on Europe. I made clear that the EU needed fundamental, far reaching change – and that Britain would lead the way in negotiating t…
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, Coalition, EU referendum, legislated EU referendum, Tories |
Open Europe’s chairman Lord Leach of Fairford has an op-ed in today’s Times, where he argues:Fifteen years ago, when a handful of businessmen set up Business for Sterling to stop Britain joining the euro, we were cold-shouldered by the BBC, patronise…
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Cameron, Cameron's EU speech, eu, EU referendum, renegotiation, UK-EU relations |
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