November 22, 2012
This EU budget stuff can come across as pretty dull and confusing. To lighten things up a bit, we will turn to the universal language of football. So meet the EU budget ‘Veto Team’ – the eleven EU leaders that so far have threatened to veto the EU budg…
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November 21, 2012
On his Telegraph blog, Mats Persson argues: Take a deep breath. Britain is not about to get completely stuffed in Europe.The FT ran a story the other day claiming that the EU could circumvent the UK’s veto over the EU’s next long-term budget (201…
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November 19, 2012
Update 21 November, 16:15Portugal has stepped up its rhetoric by a notch, and has now joined the group of countries that have explicitly threatened to use their veto. Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho told MPs, “The proposal that has been t…
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November 1, 2012
Over on the Spectator’s Coffee House blog, we argue,When in 1996 the US Congress threw out Bill Clinton’s Federal budget they precipitated a partial shutdown of the US Government. However, anyone looking at the growing prospect of a UK EU budget ve…
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October 30, 2012
Over on the Telegraph blog, we argue:Labour has joined the battle over the EU’s next long-term budget. The budget, to run between 2014 and 2020, will be discussed at an EU summit on 22 and 23 November. David Cameron wants a “real terms freeze” …
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