Open Europe’s Christopher Howarth wrote the following article for the Telegraph. For more information as to the UK’s crime and policing opt out please also see Open Europe’s An Unavoidable ChoiceWhy is the European Arrest Warrant so controversial?MPs a…
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October 10, 2014
The WSJ reports today that Spain is using its dispute with the UK over Gibraltar to hold up/block the UK’s re-entry into a number of EU crime and policing laws. To recap, the UK has already decided to exercise its block opt-out of o…
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Theresa May MP may have committed a future Conservativegovernment to renenegotiate ECJ power over crime and policingYesterday the House of Commons voted to opt out of c.130 EU crime and policing measures and then seek to opt back into ones the Governme…
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MPs are today being asked to back the Government’s plan to opt-out of 133 EU crime and justice laws but opt back in to 35 of them, including the European Arrest Warrant. As we’ve pointed out before, opting back in means accepting full European Cour…
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July 11, 2013
Open Europe’s Christopher Howarth has written the following article for Conservative Home: On Monday MPs will be asked to vote on the Coalition’s policy to opt out of 127 EU crime and policing measures and then opt back into 35 of them, including vir…
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Open Europe’s Christopher Howarth has written the following article for Conservative Home: On Monday MPs will be asked to vote on the Coalition’s policy to opt out of 127 EU crime and policing measures and then opt back into 35 of them, including vir…
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July 10, 2013
Our Research Director Stephen Booth has written a piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free section, where he argues:The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has announced that the UK will opt out of 133 EU criminal justice measures, using a “block opt-out” neg…
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In January 2012, we published An unavoidable choice: More or less EU control over UK policing and criminal law. A year and half later, and it looks like decision time has arrived.According to the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May will announce this week th…
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Ken Clarke, as he is prone to doing, has let slip a morsel of information regarding the Government’s thinking on how to approach the 2014 EU crime and policing block opt-out, which, according to Theresa May last year, the Government is ‘minded’ t…
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October 15, 2012
Home Secretary Theresa May today indicated that, in the coming weeks or months, the Government will formally exercise its right to opt out of around 130 EU crime and policing laws. The list of laws subject to the block opt-out includes several contenti…
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