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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Lord Hill is the EU's new financial services Commissioner - but what is his remit and who does he report to?

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With the future of the UK seemingly hanging by a thread it is understandable that events north of the border are dominating attention, but...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Braveheart: Aspiration or reality? Alex Salmond claims Scotland could join the EU in 18 months

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Aspiration or reality? Alex Salmond has today claimed that an independent Scotland's (iScotland) EU membership terms could "b...
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#EUpriorities: Ensure the EU steers clear of decisions better taken nationally

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As promised , here is the first of the cartoons accompanying our reform  mandate  for the new European Commission: We believe that t...
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EU divisions delay sanctions on Russia, likely to focus on Rosneft

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The EU last night finally reached an agreement on the latest round of sanctions on Russia, although the members agreed to delay implementat...
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Monday, September 08, 2014

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

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This morning, Open Europe published a 'mandate' for the new European Commission - in short a series of proposals setting out what...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

ECB surprises markets with interest rate cut and purchases of private assets: Round-up of reactions from around Europe

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As we predicted might happen , the ECB surprised markets yesterday with the announcement of an interest rate cut and the purchases of priv...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

ECB preview - Dovish Draghi to double down on easing?

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The European Central Bank (ECB) holds its monthly meeting in Frankfurt today - the day after ECB President Mario Draghi's 67th birthda...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

What further sanctions is the EU considering against Russia?

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Given the recent escalation in Eastern Ukraine and the increasingly obvious Russian influence in the rebel forces, the EU looks set to impos...
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Monday, September 01, 2014

The CDU's 'AfD problem': too big to ignore, too controversial to team up with

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Yesterday’s regional elections in Saxony saw Germany's anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) score an impressive 9.7%  netting t...
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Headlines are all for AfD and UKIP, but the biggest shocker for traditional parties may come from Spain...

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The surge of anti-EU, anti-euro and protest parties across Europe continues. Germany's anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is ma...
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The Independent getting excited but do 100 Tory MPs really want to leave the EU no matter what?

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The UK media has an insatiable appetite for ‘Tories split’ stories on Europe – mainly we suspect because it makes for an attention-grabbin...
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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Tusk and Mogherini: Europe's new 'dream team'? Our initial thoughts

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Europe's new 'dream team'? As we noted in our previous post , Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had sort of spoiled the s...
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"I understand that Tusk it's OK": Has the Cypriot President just spoiled it all?

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As we wrote in our round-up of EU leaders' doorsteps , Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is the favourite for the European Council Presi...
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EU top jobs summit has kicked off: here is a round-up of doorstep declarations

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EU leaders have all arrived in Brussels for today's summit. There are two big issues on the table: the appointments of the next European...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

EU top jobs: will Matteo Renzi and Mrs. Tusk get their way?

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Herman waves goodbye to the European Council Presidency - who will succeed him? As we laid out in our flash analysis yesterday, the o...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Douglas Carswell defects to UKIP: A Clacton by election could change the general election result

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Douglas Carswell was until this morning the Conservative MP for Clacton on the Essex coast. He has now resigned from the Conservative part...
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Latest UK migration statistics likely to further turn up political heat on EU migration

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The ONS has this morning released its latest long-term UK migration statistics and they are likely to increase the intensity of the spotli...
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It says it won’t accept a “gentlemen’s club” but how gender-balanced is the European Parliament itself?

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Jean-Claude Juncker and his people have rightly expressed concern over the lack of female European Commission candidates put forward by memb...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Sweden set for a lurch to the left - and further gains for anti-immigration party

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The Swedish elections take place on 14 September. As polls stand, the sitting centre-right coalition government, "Alliansen" - the...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

'Erm...Brussels we have a problem' (Or "If EU did satellites..." Part III)

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This week has seen the latest farcical episode in the EU's foray into space. The independent European Space Agency (ESA), which is bas...
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