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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2014 opt-out, britain in europe, British diplomacy, criminal justice, JHA opt-out, Spain |
September 5, 2013
Yesterday, Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Justice and vice-President of the Commission, gave a speech saying she wanted to increase the EU’s powers to intervene in member states where there is a “rule of law” crisis. Citing the “Roma crisis in…
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criminal justice, European federalism, human rights, Viviane Reding, weird uptight federalist stuff |
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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2014 opt-out, criminal justice, ECJ, European arrest warrant, europol, JHA opt-out, renegotiation |
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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2014 opt-out, criminal justice, European arrest warrant, JHA opt-out, renegotiation |
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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2014 opt-out, criminal justice, European arrest warrant, europol, JHA opt-out, renegotiation |
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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2014 opt-out, britain in europe, criminal justice, ECJ, EU police laws, European arrest warrant |
Was Tony Blair arguing for a Charter opt out or not?Following five years of wrangling the European Commission has finally given in to requests from the European Citizen Action Service and the European Ombudsmen and released documents concerning th…
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charter, criminal justice, EU law, Lisbon Treaty, Tony Blair |
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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August 3, 2012
Over on Conservative Home, we argue, The Coalition has already done some good work on the EU, the ‘referendum lock’ and the recently launched ‘audit’ of the EU’s influence on the UK to name two. However, the constraints of coalition …
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britain in europe, Cameron, criminal justice, EU budget, EU regional policy, jha, repatriation of powers, structural funds, UK;, veto |
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