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Attention new European Commission! This is how to save £200bn, kick-start growth and re-connect the EU with voters

September 8, 2014

This morning, Open Europe published a ‘mandate’ for the new European Commission – in short a series of proposals setting out what the Commission should – and shouldn’t – be doing over its five year term of office. Our mandate idea was inspired by the r…

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EU budget, EU reform, European Commission, Frans Timmermans, Open Europe mandate, services liberalisation

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Balance of Competences round-up: Part II

July 22, 2014

Further to our previous post on the Government’s Balance of Competences report on free movement, below we pick out some of the key points from the other reports published today:The report on the services stated that:“Incomplete and ineffective implem…

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CAP, charter of fundamental Rights, enhanced cooperation, EU budget, EU regional policy, EU structural funds, Financial Services, services liberalisation, single market safeguards

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Anglo-German partnership on EU reform could prove crucial at the negotiating table

April 9, 2014

Die Welt’s Economic Editor Tobias Kaiser has an opinion piece in today’s paper entitled entitled “Stay with us, Brits”, in which he argues that:“Berlin needs London as a partner in the fight for fiscal reason [in the EU].” Kaiser highlight…

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angela merkel, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, britain in europe, fiscal discipline, France, Francois Hollande, George Osborne, schauble, services liberalisation, single market safeguards

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Gaining allies for #EUReform: Open Europe / Fresh Start Project’s EU Reform Conference is drawing huge levels of interest

January 13, 2014

Advocates of ‘Out’ of the EU or the ‘Status Quo’, are fond of saying that EU reform is impossible – it suits their respective cases. They are wrong. Reform is possible, but will not happen on its own, reformers in the UK need to go out there and w…

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EU budget, EU financial regulation, eu fisheries, EU reform, eu reform conference, Maria Damanaki, national parliaments, Rachida Dati, red card, services liberalisation, subsidiarity

We can’t ‘complete’ the EU single market in services but we can do a lot better

October 28, 2013

The APPG on European Reform, to which Open Europe acts as the secretariat, has published a new report, following the Group’s inquiry into the EU’s single market in services. The APPG held evidence sessions with a wide range of business groups from…

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britain in europe, services, services directive, services liberalisation

What would leaving the EU mean for the UK’s services sector?

August 9, 2013

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog,The UK’s services sector accounts for around 75 per cent of the country’s GDP. Britain’s 0.6 per cent growth in the second quarter of this year was largely thanks to this sector, which grew a…

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Cameron, City, eu, EU financial regulation, EU referendum, germany, Merkel, renegotiation, services liberalisation, UK;

Services liberalisation: David Cameron has one more reason to love Spain

June 13, 2013

We reported in today’s press summary that Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and opposition leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba have agreed to adopt a common position ahead of the 27-28 June EU summit. The full document – a draft resolution due to be vot…

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bolkestein, Cameron, Rajoy, Rubalcaba, services, services directive, services liberalisation, Spain

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