We’ve laid it out in our response today, but in an attempt to elucidate things we’ll go into a bit more detail in this post. In addition to the general ‘fairness’ discussion – making sure that there’s a link between what people put in and what they…
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britain in europe, Cameron, EU free movement, EU migrants, EU migration, immigration speech |
The big speech has been delivered – you can read our response here, but below we round up the reactions from around Europe – remember, the changes Cameron set out today based on Open Europe’s research will require agreement from other EU leaders.Europe…
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britain in europe, Cameron, EU free movement, immigration speech |
November 3, 2014
Der Spiegel reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned David Cameron at last month’s EU summit that she would no longer try to keep the UK in the EU if Cameron sought to impose quotas or a cap on workers from other EU countries, as opposed t…
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access to benefits, Anglo-German relations, britain in europe, Cameron, EU free movement, EU reform, immigration, Merkel |
October 28, 2014
Cameron has promised to invoke the spirit of Thatcher over the EU budgetAs EU leaders were agreeing the final details of the EU’s new energy and climate change policies on Thursday evening, the FT’s Alex Barker dropped the bombshell that the UK had bee…
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britain in europe, Cameron, EU budget, EU budget rules, EU budget surcharge |
David Cameron has taken a very tough position on the EU budget surcharge, claiming that he “won’t pay” the £1.7bn the Commission has demanded from the UK by December 1 after concluding the UK had been underpaying into the budget relative to the size o…
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blocking minority, Cameron, EU budget, EU budget rules, italy, Netherlands, QMV |
In Britain, “Europe” as a political issue has pretty much gone mad over the last few weeks. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but where are we in terms of substance?Free movement: When asked about reports in UK media that David Cameron is consideri…
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Cameron, EU budget, EU reform, European arrest warrant, free movement |
October 24, 2014
Update 24/10/14 17.05:Outgoing Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has just given his press conference which frankly did not clear much up. Barroso insisted, as the Dutch position below does, that this payment demand is part of an annual adjustmen…
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2014-2020 EU budget, Cameron, EU budget, EU summit, European Council, european system of accounts, gdp, MFF, UK contributions, UK-EU relations |
There are a number of headlines today around the EU’s request for a further €2.1bn from the UK in terms of its contribution to the EU’s budget.Below we breakdown exactly how and why this has happened and what options the UK has now.How has this h…
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2014-2020 EU budget, Cameron, EU budget, EU summit, European Council, european system of accounts, gdp, MFF, UK contributions, UK-EU relations |
October 20, 2014
Would the UK have zero influence outside the EU? Outgoing European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is in London, and he has made a few interesting remarks about the Tories, Brexit, EU free movement and Grant Shapps. Wading into the most …
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access to benefits, barroso, britain in europe, Cameron, EU reform, free movement, influence |
UPDATE: The Prime Minister has now given his conference speech. This is the passage on EU migration:”Immediate access to our welfare system, paying benefits to families back home, employment agencies signing up people from overseas, not recruiting…
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