Here’s a round-up of comments from other EU finance ministers about the UK’s £1.7bn EU budget surcharge and the deal struck at today’s meeting. This being EU budget negotiations, everyone is claiming either ‘nothing to see here’ or victory. Apart from…
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Dijsselbloem, EU budget, EU budget surcharge, Noonan, Osborne, Schaeuble, UK rebate |
January 15, 2014
Our ground-breaking EU reform conference is now imminent and, as widely trailed in today’s media, UK Chancellor George Osborne will be giving the opening keynote speech.You can join the conversation throughout the day on twitter, using the #EUreform ha…
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austria, britain in europe, denmark, EU reform, eu reform conference, germany, Osborne, Poland, Sweden |
Coverage of the budget today will understandably focus predominantly on the wider debate about sticking to ‘Plan A’, and of course the inadvertent ‘leaking’ of the budget on the front page of the Evening Standard. However, being the EU obsessives that …
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2014-2020 MFF, britain in europe, EU budget, EU spending, Osborne |
March 5, 2013
Today has been billed as the final chance for UK Chancellor George Osborne to secure a change in the proposal to limit bank bonuses across the EU. It is true that any change to the broad political agreement (including the level of the ratio limiting bo…
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bank bonus, banking regulation, banking sector, Basel III, CRD4, ECJ, ecofin, eurogroup, Lisbon Treaty, Osborne, UK-EU relations |
A month or so ago, David Cameron suggested, for the first time, that UK exit from the EU was “imaginable”. Today, in an interview with Die Welt, and as we reported in our press summary, his Chancellor, George Osborne, has been far more explicit. Here’s…
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December 6, 2012
On the same day as George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its new Economic and Fiscal Outlook. As usual, the first section we looked at was the one about how much the UK pays into the EU budget. Here is …
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Autumn Statement, EU budget, MFF, OBR, Osborne, UK contributions, UK-EU relations |
On the same day as George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its new Economic and Fiscal Outlook. As usual, the first section we looked at was the one about how much the UK pays into the EU budget. Here is …
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Autumn Statement, EU budget, MFF, OBR, Osborne, UK contributions, UK-EU relations |
Over on the Telegraph blog, we argue: Talk of a banking union for the eurozone has become fashionable. Many, including the British government, see the idea as a way to provide some sort of backstop for the eurozone, where shaky banks remain a huge t…
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bank capital, banking union, Cameron, eurozone, eurozone crisis, financial regulation, Osborne, UK;, veto |
June 8, 2012
The eurozone crisis alone is complicated enough. Add in UK domestic politics and calls for a referendum on EU membership, and this stuff becomes maddening. Today’s Europe coverage in the UK press was a wonderful cocktail of a euro Armageddon, EU-UK rel…
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britain in europe, Cameron, Conservative Europe policy, euro, eurobonds, Merkel, Osborne, referendum, referendum lock |
In today’s Telegraph, we argue:Whatever the future of the single currency – and the entire European project – it will largely be decided in Berlin. The most important relationship for David Cameron is therefore with the German Chancellor, Ang…
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britain in europe, Cameron, ECB, eurobonds, France, franco-german axis, germany, Hollande, Merkel, Osborne, sound money, sovereign debt |
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