Open Europe this morning published in full the already much cited report on how Cameron can win on EU migration without sacrificing free movement – trailed on the front page of Sunday Times yesterday and featured on BBC News at Ten and the Today Prog…
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access to benefits, EU free movement, EU reform, immigration, in-work benefits, ken clarke |
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 27, 2014
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 |
Back in May, we pointed out the so-called ‘Farage Paradox’ – even as the party came first in the European elections in the UK and Farage himself was widely seen as having bested Nick Clegg in their TV debates, support for leaving the EU had fallen to i…
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britain in europe, Clegg v Farage, EU reform, Nigel Farage, public opinion, UKIP |
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 |
October 13, 2014
Good news for EU reform keeps coming from Belgium. After the publication of the new coalition agreement, which we’ve analysed here, it has today been announced that Johan Van Overtveldt will be the country’s new Finance Minister. A former editor-in-…
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The final discussions and votes in the European Parliament’s committees over the nominees for the new European Commission are currently taking place with most of the results already in.As expected, Lord Hill has been approved as new EU Commissioner for…
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david cameron, EPhearings2014, EU reform, European Commission, Lord Hill, renegotiation, UK-EU relations |
There is a select group of masochists out there (us included) who devote their time to studying the inner workings of the EU budget. Its a very dry and technical process but at the end of the day the numbers matter – the UK’s gross annual contribution …
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September 29, 2014
Cecilia Malmström during her hearing todayThe European Parliament kicked off its hearings of Commission nominees today, with most of the attention focused on Sweden’s Cecilia Malmström, the current Home Affairs Commissioner who has been handed the hu…
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EP hearings, EU commission, EU reform, european parliament, free trade, Giegold, ISDS, juncker, Malmström, MEPs, TTIP |
As promised, here is the first of the cartoons accompanying our reform mandate for the new European Commission:We believe that the EU must do more than merely pay lip service to the principle of subsidiarity, i.e. that the EU should not meddl…
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EU reform, Frans Timmermans, Open Europe mandate, subsidiarity |
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