We don’t want to be over-dramatic, but 2017 could shape up to be the toughest year for the EU in a very, very long time. Perhaps ever. If David Cameron gets re-elected, there will be an In/Out EU referendum in the UK in 2017 (though it could perhap…
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Swiss President Didier Burkhalter (see picture) has today announced that Swiss voters will be asked to vote on the future of their bilateral relationship with the EU “by the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.”There have been long-running negotiation…
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February 14, 2014
The Swiss referendum #CHvote to cap the number of EU migrants has sparked strong reactions across Europe. But would other European people vote differently if they were to be asked? An Infratest dimap poll for Deutsche Welle from Wednesday suggests that…
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February 10, 2014
We suspect the reverberations from the decision in the Swiss referendum to cap the number of EU migrants might be felt for some time (we look at what the long term implications could be for the UK here). The Swiss case is interesting because unlike the…
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Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:In a referendum yesterday, the Swiss voted by a narrow margin in favour of restricting immigration from the EU. Switzerland is not an EU member but via around 100 agreements, Switzerland is pa…
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February 7, 2014
On Sunday the Swiss electorate will be asked to vote in a referendum on whether to impose migration quotas on European Union and European Economic Area nationals – a system the country currently uses for non-EU/EEA migrants. The referendum question d…
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For all the noise about Europe in the UK, British sceptics (with some exceptions) aren’t necessarily great at thinking outside the box. We have previously looked at the existing models used by countries that have decided against/be…
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July 19, 2012
David Cameron is quoted in today’s Telegraph saying that he wants to negotiate a “new settlement” with the EU with powers returned to Britain, but that he would never campaign for an “out” vote in a referendum. “If your vision of Britain wa…
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With Europe as fluid as ever, talk of some sort of EU referendum is heating up in the UK (well at least in the Westminster bubble). The always excellent James Forsyth of the Spectator argued in the magazine yesterday that London Mayor Boris Johnson’…
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