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European Council draft conclusions: have Merkel’s ‘reform contracts’ made a comeback?

October 21, 2013

As we noted in our previous blog post – and as we predicted in our briefing trailing the German elections – Angela Merkel could now well be pushing for so-called ‘reform contracts’ or ‘competitiveness pacts’ (which is what they’re called in the CDU/CSU…

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contractual arrangements, EUCO, European Council, eurozone, eurozone crisis, germany, Merkel, treaty change

Has the Dutch VVD moved further than the Tories on EU reform and return of EU powers?

September 19, 2013

In the Dutch Parliament earlier, the VVD (the party of the Dutch PM) EU spokesman Mark Verheijen said he thought EU treaty change was “inevitable” and what is more”when we want less Brussels in several domains, return whole policy areas, …

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dutch politics, dutch subsidiarity review, EU reform, treaty change, VVD

Italy: A new (and unexpected) ally on EU reform for David Cameron?

July 17, 2013

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has probably made a lot more friends than he expected on his first official visit to the UK. This is largely due to a couple of quite sensible remarks he has made about the future of Europe and Britain’s role in it.A…

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Cameron, Downing Street, eu, italy, Letta, London, renegotiation, Rome, treaty change

Has Germany really gone off the idea of EU treaty change? (Part II)

April 15, 2013

Some EU pundits have spent the last several months arguing that a change to the EU treaties is a non-starter. “Don’t you know”, they say with a high degree of confidence “the Germans have gone off it.” And in any case, no one else wants it any way for …

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banking supervision, banking union, britain in europe, Cameron's EU speech, david cameron, German Constitutional Court, germany, schauble, treaty change

Has Germany really gone off the idea of an EU treaty change?

March 28, 2013

Usually technical meetings behind closed doors in Brussels are pretty dull. However, judging by some of the reports floating around, yesterday’s meeting of the EU Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) may have bucked the trend somewhat. Th…

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bank bonus, banking regulation, banking supervision, banking union, Cameron's EU speech, CRD4, ECB, eu treaty, financial supervision, treaty change

Could Cyprus leave the Eurozone but stay in the EU?

March 24, 2013

Now, we’re not necessarily saying that Cyprus should leave the eurozone. But with eurozone finance ministers set for a pretty long and rough night of talks, trying to reach a compromise that will allow Cyprus to live another day inside the eurozone, th…

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Article 50, Cyprus, default, ECB, eurozone, eurozone exit, treaty change

Cyprus crisis shows Europe cannot perpetually move in one direction only

In an op-ed yesterday’s Times, Mats Persson argued that:No matter how the nail-biting drama in Cyprus ends, the eurozone has never been this close to waving goodbye to a member. Yesterday afternoon the deputy leader of the ruling party claimed that hi…

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Article 50, baailout, bail-ins, Cyprus, default, ECB, euro exot, ever closer union, treaty change

How realistic is Cameron’s timetable for EU reform?

January 23, 2013

As Open Europe Director Mats Persson notes over on his Telegraph blog, in his speech today, Cameron has set himself a concrete timetable, despite the fact that timetables in Europe are notoriously difficult to control. A treaty change discussion could …

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Cameron's EU speech, cfp, Constitution by any other name, esm, EU patent, Lisbon Treaty, treaty change, UK rebate

The Coalition’s mid-term review on Europe: Bland and blander

January 8, 2013

Yesterday saw the publication of the Coalition’s ‘mid-term review’, the aim of which was to “take stock of progress in implementing the Coalition agreement” and to set out the government’s objectives for the remainder of its period of office. The Europ…

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britain in europe, coalition government, david cameron, Labour, nick clegg, treaty change

Who said EU federalists don’t get headlines in UK media (but ‘associate membership’ for Britain is hardly a revolutionary thought)

January 2, 2013

The Union of European Federalists – an umbrella group of federalist organisations and lobby groups – got a pretty good hit in the UK media on New Year’s eve when the Times (and later other papers) picked up on a forthcoming paper by the group, wh…

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britain in europe, eu membership, European federalism, norway, treaty change, UK media, UK-EU relations

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