November 3, 2014
As we already noted here, today we published a new pamphlet by Professor Damian Chalmers of the LSE and our Research Director Stephen Booth. The basic question the authors ask is, in the current political climate, how in the world can we ‘save’ E…
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access to benefits, anglo-german axis, britain in europe, EU free movement, EU migration, Merkel |
July 1, 2014
Britain: The critical voice of reason?We’ve been monitoring how the British Europe debate is being received across the continent throughout the Juncker episode (here and here), and already noted how large parts of the German commentariat have come out …
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anglo-french cooperation, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, Brexit, EU reform, financial transaction tax, handelsblatt, Jean-Claude Juncker |
As we’ve noted, the Juncker-hangover is already taking hold in parts of the German commentariat. In a hard-hitting piece, Lisa Nienhaus, the Economics Editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung argues that the EU “needs more Cameron, not les…
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angela merkel, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, david cameron, European Council, european parliament, german media, Jean-Claude Juncker |
June 24, 2014
Many of us have been there. Waking up on a Sunday morning. Head sore. Mouth dry. And not entirely pleased with our behaviour the previous night. “What was I thinking” type of thing.It seems like German media is there too over the, by now, highly-likely…
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anglo-german axis, European Commission, European Parliament elections, juncker, Merkel |
June 12, 2014
As soon as the news that Germany’s anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had joined the Tories’ ECR group in the European Parliament – as we predicted would happen – hit the Twittersphere, the German reaction has been swift and pretty condemning…
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AFD, angela merkel, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, david cameron, ECR, germany |
As we have noted before, for all the talk over the next Commission President, it remains anyone’s game and there are a number of candidates in the running.Everyone’s now watching the mixed and vague position of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. To our…
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anglo-german axis, Cameron, European Commission, juncker, Merkel, president, spitzenkandidaten |
May 30, 2014
The latest intervention by one of Europe’s most important politicians shows that, in the wake of the shock European elections result over the weekend, Europe’s leaders are waking up to smell the coffee.Writing a guest piece for Die Welt, Germany’s Fi…
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#EUReform, anglo-german axis, comtpe, germany, schauble, subsidiarity |
Die Welt’s Economic Editor Tobias Kaiser has an opinion piece in today’s paper entitled entitled “Stay with us, Brits”, in which he argues that:“Berlin needs London as a partner in the fight for fiscal reason [in the EU].” Kaiser highlight…
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angela merkel, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, britain in europe, fiscal discipline, France, Francois Hollande, George Osborne, schauble, services liberalisation, single market safeguards |
March 28, 2014
In a major coup for David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne has penned a joint op-ed in the FT with his German opposite number Wolfgang Schäuble. Both argue for the need for EU reform (including services liberalisation) and for safegu…
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anglo-german axis, david cameron, EU reform, EU treaty change, eurozone, George Osborne, schauble, single market safeguards |
March 27, 2014
How much are the new immigrants costing us asks BildThe German government’s preliminary report on EU migration was presented yesterday by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and Labour Minister Andrea Nahles, and contains some very interesting m…
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access to benefits, anglo-german axis, Cameron, CDU/CSU, EU free movement, immigration, Merkel |
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