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Back in 2012, prior to the Scottish Independence Referendum, I wrote a blog post entitled Answering how an independent Scotland would work in the EU is much more mundane than anyone seems to want to admit. While the title of that blog post remains true, the state of play on this issue has moved on… » read more
Posted by Jon Worth Euroblog
Still stumbling towards the exit Running out of patience with British politicians? In my latest article on all things Brexit (9 February) I explain why the Westminster parliament and parties find themselves split and emasculated – and have only themselves to blame. I have precious little sympathy for those Remainers who voted blithely to promote… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
February 6, 2017
Britain’s splendid, free-booting, liberal traders, now leading the UK into the economic wild blue yonder, believe that most of the world’s trading nations will be queuing up to sign lots of lovely, lucrative trade deals as the country breaks away from the European Union. They are in for a nasty shock. Most obviously, most of… » read more
Posted by Brian Gardner's Blog
January 24, 2017
The Atlantic Arc is composed by the western territories of Europe, from Scotland to the Canary Islands. As a cooperation area, 2017 can be a very challenging year. While other levels of government are getting ready for negotiations, the local level has opted for a more practical stance, speaking about daily problems like governance, urban… » read more
Posted by Atlantic Cities
January 17, 2017
In my previous piece, posted on 22nd November 2016, I argued that direct democracy, where the electorate is asked to decide or approve policy, is dangerous. I suggested that representative democracy is a better alternative. One of the reasons I advanced is that a majority of people in an electorate are remarkably ill-informed, making rational… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
January 16, 2017
“Have you gone mad?”, is the most frequent question from mainland European friends on the sore-vexed issue of Britain’s Gadarene flight from Europe. They are of course not questioning my sanity, but that of the thirty-seven per cent of the British electorate who voted on June 23 to leave the European Union. For without a… » read more
Posted by Brian Gardner's Blog
1. The waiting is almost over. On Tuesday 17 January Prime Minister Theresa May will deliver a speech in which she promises to spell out in more detail what her government wants out of leaving the European Union. A few days later the UK Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on the appeal brought by… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
January 5, 2017
There will be times when running commentary on Brexit has to break out from a trot into a sprint. This week is one of those. The resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers as UK Permanent Representative to the EU has been widely reported. People seem more surprised than they should have been. It is not news… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
December 13, 2016
With the go-ahead from the House of Commons and Article 50 invocation in sight, Theresa May is in full Brexit-hawking mode. In her second major trip abroad to advertise the post-EU UK, Britain’s Prime Minister embarked on a high-profile visit to Bahrain this week to address Gulf leaders and discuss security cooperation but also, critically,… » read more
Posted by The Euro Economy
December 12, 2016
When the UK made the decision to leave the EU in June, the country was thrown into a state of panic. No one had anticipated the Brexit camp would be successful, not least those fronting the Brexit campaign. Almost six months on and we’re still none the wiser about what the UK will look like… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
December 5, 2016
What does Brexit really mean? A good place to start is the question voters were asked on 23rd June: should the UK remain a member of the European Union or leave the EU? So at the very least we can say that Britain will at some point cease to be a member of the EU… » read more
Posted by Fritz Groothues
November 18, 2016
Rumours abound in the press that the British government is preparing a bill to pass through Parliament to enable Article 50 to be triggered and the UK to leave the EU. If the more extreme of those rumours is to be believed, then the bill is planned to be just three lines of text long… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
November 14, 2016
Uber last week lost a landmark employment case in the UK, preventing the company to classify their drivers as self-employed. While independent work is prevalent in the construction, household, and transportation services, it is also widespread within certain types of specialized knowledge-intensive occupations. The largest majority of freelancers, the highly-skilled end of the self-employed and… » read more
Posted by Solo-Entrepreneurship in Europe
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November 8, 2016
We are used to think that Fascism somehow belongs to the past, something that somehow is gone. But I don’t think that this is appropriate anymore. The last months have shown that Fascism seems to be very much alive, probably in a new way. Some of the typical characteristics of Fascism are having a very… » read more
Posted by The future of the European Union
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October 28, 2016
Brexit is a shock, but one which the European Union can recover from. Hope rests above all in a first ‘European’ generation which has grown up experiencing the benefits of integration and membership. This group will decide the EU’s future direction, if it can overcome its frustration. By Michael Cottakis, President of the 1989 Generation… » read more
Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative
