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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June 30, 2014
The Mail on Sunday had the first poll (by Survation) following David Cameron’s summit defeat over Juncker’s appointment as European Commission President. The top line is that 47% of Britons want to leave the EU, with 39% in favour of stay…
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Poll watchers in the last few years would have seen many polls showing a majority of Brits would vote ‘out’ in a referendum of the UK’s membership of the EU. In the last few months this trend has been slowly reversing, and a new Ipsos-MORI poll out tod…
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The majority of the UK public was not represented at last night’s debateThe second EU debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage was an altogether more scrappy and bad-tempered affair with more personal attacks and fewer statbombs being throw…
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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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March 19, 2014
Ipsos Mori has this week published an interesting poll on public attitudes* in ten EU member states. Across the ten countries as a whole relatively few people want to leave the EU outright (18% on average), but the single most popular option …
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anti-austerity, austerity, britain in europe, British diplomacy, euro, France, French public opinion, German public opinion, germany, poll, public opinion, repatriation of powers |
There is this much chance we will hold an EU referendum if I’m Prime MinisterEd Miliband’s intervention yesterday – in which he said he would only hold an In/Out referendum in the event of a new EU Treaty transferring specific powers from the UK to…
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Someone is unhappy with the way things are goingCzech artist David Cerny is best known for his satire of EU nations that caused both outrage and amusement across the EU. Today his target is closer to home – the Czech political class and in pa…
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Cameron, czech republic, EU reform, political fragmentation, public opinion |
Someone is unhappy with the way things are goingCzech artist David Cerny is best known for his satire of EU nations that caused both outrage and amusement across the EU. Today his target is closer to home – the Czech political class and in pa…
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Cameron, czech republic, EU reform, political fragmentation, public opinion |
July 23, 2013
The latest Eurobarometer is out, and as per tradition, the European Commission does its best to spin the findings of a survey that, particularly since the eurozone crisis broke out, hardly makes for happy reading.The press release accompanying the late…
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