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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Egypt: Europe speaks but very slowly

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"Speaking with one voice" has consistently been the mantra or motto of those in favour of a single EU foreign policy. The EU Forei...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

From the horse's mouth: EU Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty are the same

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The past month’s debates in the Commons over the EU Bill have once again revived the thorny issue of the Lisbon Treaty and its abandoned twi...
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Three big 'excepts'

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Except for fishing, farming, and the euro, Norway is practically speaking already part of the EU’s inner market. The only thing it lacks i...
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Policy before institution, please

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In regards to Egypt, institutional Europe was lacking a clear line until [French President] Nicolas Sarkozy, [German Chancellor] Angela Merk...
Friday, January 28, 2011

No EU, No...Cognac

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Europhiles have a peculiar habit of crediting "Europe" - though it's never entirely clear what the concept refers to - for ach...
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Eurotrashed

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In a letter to today's International Herald Tribune, Former US ambassador Alfred Kingon summarises the situation facing the euro and th...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

MPs could learn a thing or two from MEPs

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Last night MPs debated amendments to the EU Bill to strengthen Parliament's power over the Government on decisions about which EU crime...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Forever in your debt

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One proposal that keeps popping up in the debate on how to restructure the struggling Euro zone economies, is the idea that they be allowed...

Germans: In the EU we do not trust

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Germans' trust in the EU has taken a giddy nosedive of late . A poll of German citizens, conducted by German pollsters the Allensbach In...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

This is why the EU Bill should be amended

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The Government on Friday published an annual report that reveals which, and how many, EU crime, justice and immigration laws the UK signed ...
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A Royal Extravagance

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Spot the odd one out… Buckingham Palace in London Palacio Real de Madrid, Spain Stockholms slott, Sweden, and The Louise Weiss building in S...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Is EMU a new Rouble zone?

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An interesting fact revealed by the Irish Independent has gone almost unnoticed. The newspaper reported this less than two weeks ago: The ...
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Is the Miliband amendment a trap?

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The EU Bill's referendum lock is today coming before Parliament, with its different parts debated and voted on between today and Wednesd...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

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Lofty plans for aligning France's and Germany's economic policies are nothing new . French President Nicolas Sarkozy is particularly...

Is the euro...

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Just ask Google search... It must be said, people are cynical creatures. The eurostar is a pinnacle of European achievement and is almost al...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

To restructure or not to restructure...

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About this time last year, we wrote, "to bail out or not to bail out that is the question" , as Greece hovered over the abyss. A y...

Update on the EU Bill - the Government's response to JHA opt ins

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Earlier today, the Government released a statement setting out what it intends to do on the Justice and Home Affairs 'opt-ins' and ...
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More on the referendum lock

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Some more from us on the referendum lock... On Conservative Home , Open Europe chairman Lord Leach argues in favour of tweaking the EU Bill ...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

One for the people?

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Lars Feld, new economics advisor to the German government, has done something rather radical - called for a referendum on the extension of t...

Which MPs will stand up and be counted on the EU referendum lock?

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The Government's EU Bill returns to Parliament next week, with MPs considering amendments to the ' referendum lock' . At the mom...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

If the EU did satellites, they'd probably be...Part II

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Back in October we estimated , based on leaked reports from a couple of European governments, that the EU's mismanaged Galileo project ...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Your new man in Brussels

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The UK will soon have a new man in Brussels - Jon Cunliffe who will take over from Kim Darroch - to represent the country in the endless be...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Is China betting on or against Europe?

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The role of the Far East in the Eurozone's ongoing debt saga is becoming increasingly fascinating. China has reportedly bought €1.1 bil...
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How many eurocrats does it take to open a visitors centre?

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...apparently, a lot them. Opening a visitors centre should be a fairly simple matter one would think. But not so. The European Parliament...

An attack from the German heartland

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Yesterday, we invited German Professor Markus Kerber to Brussels. He is the initiator of a lawsuit at the German Constitutional Court agains...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dead Country Walking?

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The Portuguese government is breathing a sigh of relief after today's bond auction, in which Portugal managed to sell €1.25 billion of i...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

D-day for Portugal?

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Tomorrow is set to be a big day for Portugal, as it hopes to find buyers for between €750m to €1.25bn of bonds - not a small feat. As the ma...

How should MPs vote on the EU bill today?

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MPs will today vote on the first part of the EU Bill - the so-called sovereignty clause , which stipulates that EU law exists only by virtue...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Sounds familiar?

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1) Country X faces spiralling borrowing costs 2) EU leaders rush to say that there's nothing to worry about, but have a pop at Anglo-S...
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How important is Clause 18?

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Is Cameron facing defeat over the EU Bill tomorrow? Some have flagged up that prospect though we suspect the Bill will see it through tomo...
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