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Fact-checking the Clegg v Farage EU debate

March 27, 2014

The first EU debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage on LBC was for the most part restrained with a surprising amount of detail and substance. Most of the key fault lines in the UK-EU relationship were touched on.However, given that the two men…

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access to benefits, Clegg v Farage, EU debate, EU law, EU referendum, EU reform, European arrest warrant, free movement, jobs, Lib Dems, Open Europe factcheck, public opinion, services, trade, UKIP

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New rules on access to benefits: another UK legal stand-off with the Commission?

February 19, 2014

The Government has today announced the details of the “minimum earnings threshold” that will be applied from 1 March to EU migrants seeking to claim certain benefits in the UK. The plan was first outlined in David Cameron’s FT article last year, a…

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access to benefits, britain in europe, Cameron, ECJ, EU free movement, EU law, European Commission, free movement, immigration, right to reside, welfare

If EU law is followed, Scotland will join the EU just before Serbia

February 17, 2014

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:The UK must be the first country, with the forthcoming Scottish and EU referenda, to simultaneously have an intense political debate about the difficulty or otherwise of both joining and leaving th…

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Alex Salmond, barroso, catalonia, enlargement, EU accession, EU enlargement, EU law, eu membership, euro, euro opt out, scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish referendum, Spain

9%, 43%, 50%, 60%, 84%: How many domestic laws are linked to EU law? The case of Sweden

November 4, 2013

It’s up there with the origins of the universe as one of the great existential questions of our time (well…): how many national laws stem from Brussels?European Commissioner Viviane Reding – who does what she can to turn people against the EU – recen…

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accountability, cost of EU regulation, democratic deficit, EU law, EU regulation, European Commission, laws originating in EU, localism, national parliaments, Sweden, UKIP, Viviane Reding

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