Swiss President Didier Burkhalter (see picture) has today announced that Swiss voters will be asked to vote on the future of their bilateral relationship with the EU “by the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.”There have been long-running negotiation…
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has published a previously confidential account of the 1974-75 renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership under Harold Wilson’s Labour Government. That renegotiation largely resulted in only token concessions to Br…
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David Cameron today announced another ‘crackdown’ on EU migrants, stating that from November, EU jobseekers “will only be able to claim Jobseeker’s Allowance and other key welfare benefits for a maximum period of 3 months.” This will halve&nb…
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access to benefits, benefits, britain in europe, Cameron, EU free movement, EU migration, European Commission, free movement |
It emerged over the weekend that five German academics have launched another challenge at the Bundesverfassungsgericht – the German Constitutional Court (GCC) – this time against the proposals for a banking union based on the Single Supervisory Mec…
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banking supervision, banking union, Bundesverfassungsgericht, German Basic Law, German Constitutional Court, germany, single resolution mechanism, single supervisor, srm, ssm |
We are now at the halfway point in terms of nominating the next Commission with 14 out of 28 member states having publicly announced their candidates. The line-up suggests we will have the most senior Commission to date with no less than four former Pr…
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Commissioners, European Commission, european parliament, gender balance, Jean-Claude Juncker, Martin Schulz, veto |
Whenever EU reform and renegotiation are being debated, one of the most powerful claims made by the status-quo side is that it would generate uncertainty which would be bad for business.Well today’s FT reports that according to a survey of one in three…
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As we noted in our previous blog on the potential ‘Stage 3’ of EU sanctions on Russia, the options considered by the European Commission and the EEAS seem heavily focused on financial markets, raising the question of whether London would have to should…
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arms embargo, EU-Russia relations, France, russia, sanctions, UK;, Ukraine |
France’s Mistral warships seem to be off the tableAs Greek daily To Vima and the FT have been reporting, there is a draft going around of the EU options paper on possible further sanctions on Russia that will be discussed at today’s meeting of EU amb…
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July 22, 2014
Further to our previous post on the Government’s Balance of Competences report on free movement, below we pick out some of the key points from the other reports published today:The report on the services stated that:“Incomplete and ineffective implem…
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CAP, charter of fundamental Rights, enhanced cooperation, EU budget, EU regional policy, EU structural funds, Financial Services, services liberalisation, single market safeguards |
Today, the UK Government has published the third batch of its reports reviewing the ‘Balance of Competences’ between the UK and the EU. We have noted before that many of the previous reports, whilst interesting on much of the detail, have for vario…
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access to benefits, balance of competences, benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, EU migrants, EU migration, free movement |
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