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From Posture to Rupture: Cameron and Europe

November 13, 2015

Conservative parliamentarians have lined up to deride David Cameron’s speech of 10 November as falling far short of the radical renegotiation of Britain’s terms of membership that they want. This domestic reaction has misled the casual foreign observer to conclude that Cameron’s demands can be quite easily accommodated by a European Union which is vexed… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Cameron, Court of Justice, ECHR, EU referendum, EU treaty, EUCharter, The Speech; Future of Europe; Britain in Europe; Convent 15; federal union.

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Cameron’s bid for irreversible guarantee means constitutional chaos

October 8, 2015

The Conservative government’s attempt to renegotiate the UK’s terms of membership of the European Union continues to distress Britain’s pro-Europeans, antagonise its anti-Europeans and bamboozle its EU partners. Prime minister David Cameron has realised that there are two cardinal principles of EU primary law which he will not be allowed to breach: freedom of movement… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

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A Franco-German duet in front of a fractious Parliament

October 1, 2015

The first time it happened, on 22 November 1989, the German Chancellor outshone the French President. It was under a fortnight since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Helmut Kohl sounded confident and decisive, clear in his call for enlargement of the European Community and commitment to the goal of political union. François Mitterrand, by… » read more

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Enlargement, EU Institutions, Euro & Finance, Global Europe, UK in Europe

, Cameron, Hollande, Juncker, Kohl, Macron, Merkel, Mitterrand, Schauble, Schulz

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Coping with the British: here’s how

September 7, 2015

This article argues that the UK government’s renegotiation bid is too feeble to be deserving of concessions by its EU partners, but that the rest of the EU can give the British what they seem to want by pressing on themselves to federal union. Is David Cameron really serious about renegotiating the terms of the… » read more

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EU Institutions, Euro & Finance, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Cameron, EU referendum, federal union, Future of Europe

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Is This Europe’s Federal Moment?

June 21, 2015

There are still those who assert that everything the European Union needs to do can be done under its existing treaties. Few of these pundits stop to explain why it is that if indeed everything can be done under the existing treaties, everything is not, in fact, being done. So that seems a good question… » read more

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EU Institutions, Euro & Finance, UK in Europe

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Turkey’s Incredible Election

June 2, 2015

Because fellow journalists recognize the peril in which many of their Turkish colleagues now find themselves, Sunday’s election in Turkey is getting the full attention of the European media. It is indeed a game-changer of an election, not for the faint-hearted. Its outcome will determine the apotheosis of Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his ruin. And… » read more

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Enlargement, EU Institutions, Europe's East

, Cyprus, Erdogan, Kurds, Turkey

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Brexit: From Wall of Love to Vale of Tears?

May 25, 2015

David Cameron’s campaign to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union has not got off to a good start. He admitted that his first foray with fellow EU leaders, on the margins of the Eastern neighbourhood summit at Riga last week, was not met with ‘a wall of love’ (whatever that may… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, David Cameron, EU referendum, Jean-Claude Juncker

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The United States of America Questions the Credibility of the European Union

February 25, 2015

Vladimir Putin’s manoeuvres cast a new light on the state of EU-US relations. If you are American you do not have to be Senator John McCain, who wants to arm the Ukrainians, to question the validity of Europe’s fond belief that reliance on soft power fits the bill for the 21st century. Russia, and for… » read more

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Enlargement, EU Institutions, EU Priorities 2020, Euro & Finance, Global Europe, UK in Europe

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The European Union is in Deep Trouble with its Top Court

January 7, 2015

Something rather shocking has happened. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has just confounded its friends as well as its foes by blocking the EU’s efforts to sign up to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In Opinion 2/13 delivered on 18 December, the Court ruled that the draft accession agreement between the European… » read more

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EU Institutions, EU Priorities 2020, Global Europe

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Making the Case for Associate Membership of the European Union

March 7, 2013

And why Britain and Turkey may end up in much the same place A longer version of this article may be found on LSE EUROPP at http://bit.ly/Zpjs75 The Great Recession pitches the European Union full tilt into a period of great change. In all probability, a Convention will be called in spring 2015 to install… » read more

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Enlargement, EU Institutions, UK in Europe, Uncategorized

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