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Running Commentary VIII

February 13, 2017

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

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UK in Europe

, Article 50, Brexit, Court of Justice, Czech Republic, EU referendum, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, House of Commons, House of Lords, Theresa May

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Running Commentary II

December 3, 2016

1. The British government has decided to offer weekly Brexit briefings to the foreign media. But British journalists will be excluded, leaving many of them in their habitual state of incomprehension or prejudice about the European Union. Ministers still insist they will give ‘no running commentary’ on Brexit. Until they do so, at least, I… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Association Agreement, Brexit, EU referendum, EU treaty, European Economic Area, Liberal Democrats

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Article 50: “Faites Vos Jeux !”

October 18, 2016

In London everyone is agitated about how to trigger Article 50. Proceedings continue in the English High Court on whether the government needs the consent of parliament before it triggers Article 50. It should surprise nobody that the EU dimension is largely absent from the London courtroom. Nobody mentions that Theresa May, in her capacity… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Court of Justice, EU referendum, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, House of Commons

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The bold, the barmy and the mis-composited: Brexit after the party conferences

October 5, 2016

Mercifully, the party political conference season in Britain is over. We would not normally pay too much attention to the resolutions on EU policy passed by party rank and file delegates. But this year, because Britain has taken back control of its own affairs, it’s worth taking a closer look. The Liberal Democrats were first… » read more

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UK in Europe

, Article 50, Brexit, Cameron, EU referendum, Future of Europe

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Now you’ve read Article 50, read this

July 4, 2016

Most people will have never read a single article of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) before they stumbled recently across Article 50. Alas, those ‘most people’ seems to include many British lawyers and politicians whose acquaintance with the constitution of the European Union has been hitherto remote. So here is my guide to Article… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Court of Justice, EU referendum, EU treaty, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, House of Commons

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After the referendum: will there really be a ‘new settlement’ between Britain and Europe?

April 29, 2016

As the British referendum looms, a false sense of expectation is spreading in Brussels. Some wishful thinking is excusable: Britain’s partners have grown tired of having to tolerate David Cameron’s general contempt for the European Union and of circumnavigating his efforts to salvage the synthetic unity of his Conservative party. The opinion polls show a… » read more

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Enlargement, EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Cameron, Court of Justice, ECHR, EU referendum, European Commission, European Council, European Parliament, Future of Europe

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Michael Gove, Article 50 and the pigeons

April 19, 2016

Because he is Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Minister of Justice we should take the statement of Michael Gove more seriously than we might pay heed, for example, to the obiter dicta of the Mayor of London. In his speech on Tuesday (19 April), Mr Gove asserted… » read more

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EU Institutions, UK in Europe

, Brexit, Cameron, EU referendum, European Council

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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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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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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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Archives for EU referendum

Running Commentary VIII

Running Commentary II

Article 50: “Faites Vos Jeux !”

The bold, the barmy and the mis-composited: Brexit after the party conferences

Now you’ve read Article 50, read this

After the referendum: will there really be a ‘new settlement’ between Britain and Europe?

Michael Gove, Article 50 and the pigeons

From Posture to Rupture: Cameron and Europe

Coping with the British: here’s how

Brexit: From Wall of Love to Vale of Tears?

Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe

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