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Running Commentary XXI

March 20, 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

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Article 50, Association Agreement, Brexit, Court of Justice, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, Future of Europe, House of Commons, Theresa May

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Running Commentary XX – How the British came and went

January 29, 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

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EU Institutions, EU Priorities 2020, UK in Europe

, Brexit

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Is the European Parliament really a serious parliament ?

September 10, 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 times,… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, European Council, European Parliament, federal union

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Running Commentary XVII

July 23, 2017

Because the Article 50 negotiations appear to be going so well – a happy fact which allows Prime Minister May to take a three week holiday in the Alps – one can take a step back to reflect on the wider causes and consequences of Brexit. Summer holidays are a good time to read books:… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Article 50, Books, Brexit

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Running Commentary XIII

May 15, 2017

The Brexit Election Theresa May kicked off Britain’s formal election campaign by accusing the European Union of interfering. “Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and officials”, she said. “All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election.” The Russian Embassy in London tweeted: ‘Praise God… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Article 50, Brexit, Court of Justice, general election, House of Commons

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Running Commentary XII

April 20, 2017

The British election There is to be a Brexit general election in the United Kingdom on Thursday 8 June. Short of a revolution, the winner will be the Conservative party, and Theresa May will continue as prime minister. In calling – and winning – the election, Theresa May will entrench Brexit. Quite fairly, she has… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Article 50, Brexit, EU budget, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, Future of Europe, general election, Theresa May

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Running Commentary X

March 10, 2017

A new entente The big Brexit picture is that the UK continues to stumble towards a future association agreement with the EU. Until Article 50 is triggered there will be no official recognition by the EU of this scenario, and the Westminster parliament has yet to get its head(s) around the concept. But experts are… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Article 50, Brexit, Court of Justice, Euratom, European Commission, European Parliament, Future of Europe, House of Commons, House of Lords, Theresa May

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Running Commentary IX

February 22, 2017

Remainers look for meaning The second reading debate in the House of Lords (20-21 February) on the Bill to allow Theresa May to pull the trigger on Article 50 turned on whether parliament should insist that the government give it a ‘meaningful’ vote on the outcome of the Article 50 negotiations. Nobody quite nailed what… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, European Council, European Parliament, House of Lords, Theresa May

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Running Commentary V

January 4, 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

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EU Institutions, EurActiv.com, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Future of Europe, House of Commons, The Speech; Future of Europe; Britain in Europe; Convent 15; federal union., Theresa May

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Running Commentary IV

December 20, 2016

1. While British ministers continue to give confusing signals about what the government wants out of Brexit — presumably by mistake, given their disavowal of ‘running commentary’ — there appears to be a toughening up of the EU’s negotiating stance. In Brussels, Michel Barnier speaks of nothing other than the three formal stages of Brexit:… » read more

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EU Institutions, EurActiv.com, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Christmas, Denmark, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, House of Lords, Scotland

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