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Dear Theresa May

July 10, 2018

Dear Theresa May, I feel compelled to write, expressing a desire and hope that the United Kingdom can change course from the current political disaster that is Brexit. My hope is not, surprisingly, that Brexit should be stopped. With such important issues at stake, the current state of negotiations between your government and the EU… » read more

  Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!

blogactiv, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU Treaty & Institutions, UK in Europe

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What’s the context, please?

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

blogactiv, UK in Europe

Running Commentary XX – How the British came and went

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

blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, UK in Europe

Talking Europe: News Brief #7

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

blogactiv, Enlargement, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, UK in Europe

Health as a European Value in the EU budget

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

Agriculture, blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), Consumer Protection, EU news & updates, EU Security and Defense Policy, Euro & Finance, Health & Consumers, Innovation & Enterprise, Public Health, Regional Policy, Science & Policymaking, Social Europe, Social Europe & Jobs, Sustainable Dev., UK in Europe

Conditions for success

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

blogactiv, UK in Europe

Europe is setting its sails for further integration – and Brexit is merely a side show

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

blogactiv, English, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Member States, UK in Europe

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Is the European Parliament really a serious parliament ?

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

blogactiv, EU institutions, UK in Europe

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