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April 26, 2018
The many numbers with which we are bombarded every day can be misleading for two main reasons. First, they can simply be wrong. The most egregious example is the £350 million per week we were told by the Brexiteers during the referendum campaign that we would save on our annual payments to the EU. It… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
March 21, 2018
Towards the political declaration The European Council (22-23 March) has to assess the strategic impact of Brexit on the future of Europe. Although the heads of government have followed the Brexit saga, initially with regret turning increasingly to alarm, it is the Commission’s Task Force 50 under Michel Barnier that has done the heavy lifting.… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
C’est la tombe de mon grand-père à Vignemont, près de Compiègne. Il est mort il y a 100 ans, quelques mois avant la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale en 1918. Qu’est-ce qu’il faisait en France ? En 1914, l’Allemagne a déclenché une guerre terrible contre la France, la Grande Bretagne et la Russie. Après… » read more
Posted by Fritz Groothues
February 13, 2018
The past two years or so have seen an alarming departure from the political centre ground in many democracies. Brexit has polarised the UK, where the major parties and indeed the whole population are split into Remainers and Leavers. Even those wanting to leave the EU are divided between so-called hard and soft approaches, such… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
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blogactiv, Global Europe, Science & Policymaking, UK in Europe |
January 30, 2018
In fourteen months time the European Union treaties will cease to apply to the United Kingdom. This event will bring to an end almost half a century of Britain’s unquiet membership of the continental bloc. Britain will have rejected the closer unity to which the EU is committed, marking a signal failure for Europe as… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
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blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, UK in Europe |
January 22, 2018
This week in Talking Europe: We will have a look at the Franco-British summit and see whether Germany will have a government anytime soon. Entente or Détente: A Franco-Britain Summit Franco British Military Summit: The French President, Emmanuel Macron, brought the British a long desired gift. During the summit with Theresa May, he announced that… » read more
Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative
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blogactiv, Enlargement, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, UK in Europe |
January 10, 2018
Following the White paper of the Future of the European Union, the European Commission plans to make its proposal for the next, 7 year Multiannual Financial Framework in May 2018 with the aim of having an agreed budget before the EU elections in 2019. While the European Commission discussed with high level speakers the different… » read more
Posted by My European Civil Voice - Zoltán Massay-Kosubek @EU_ZMK
November 30, 2017
In many years of experience of IT-intensive projects, I have found that there are four conditions that must be met to maximise the chances of success. Putting it another way, if some or all of the conditions are not met, the likelihood of failure is raised. The first condition is that there must be a… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
October 24, 2017
Not savaged but salvaged The big news is that, after some febrile weeks, the latest European Council (19-20 October) agreed to salvage Theresa May. President Donald Tusk and his colleagues took the point — made for example in my article for the European Policy Centre (3 October) — that to savage the British prime minister… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
October 17, 2017
Alice X is a philosopher and historian of ideas with a global reputation. She holds a chair at a leading university in the UK, has visiting professorships in Paris, New York and Boston, and has received honorary doctorates at more than twenty universities. She specialises in contemporary European, especially French, thought and is regarded as… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
September 15, 2017
By Sabrina Huck, Political Consultant The UK has the Queen’s speech – the European Union has the annual State of the Union address. Delivered by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker’s performance might be lacking pomp and circumstance in comparison to the State Opening of Parliament, but it serves a similar purpose in… » read more
Posted by The Whitehouse Consultancy
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blogactiv, English, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Member States, UK in Europe |
September 11, 2017
Over the years, step by step, the European Parliament has won a share of real constitutional power. At times, as in 1984 with the Spinelli Draft Treaty and in 2002-03 in the Convention on the Future of Europe, Parliament has had a decisive influence on the constitutive development of the European Union. At other… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
Suppose for a while that the UK would not have taken the route of a referendum to part with the European Union; how do you think this Country would have found itself in 7-10 years’ time vis-à-vis to the EU? Well, oddly enough it would have found itself – or very close to – the… » read more
Posted by Wishing on Europe
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blogactiv, Citizens, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Social Europe & Jobs, UK in Europe, United Kingdom |
September 7, 2017
Withdrawal symptoms As we can see, the Article 50 negotiations are in a good deal of trouble. At this rate there is no chance that the European Council will construe that the necessary sufficient progress has been made to allow it to pass on to the second, and more interesting phase of the Brexit talks.… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
September 5, 2017
By Chenoa Geerts, Associate Political Consultant Running up to the Brexit referendum it was often referred to as “scaremongering”, when politicians, industry representatives, academics or economists emphasised the adverse consequences of leaving the EU. Many today still say that those negative effects have not materialised over a year after the referendum. However, it is safe… » read more
Posted by The Whitehouse Consultancy
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Health & Consumers, UK in Europe |
