How Cameron traded influence for isolation
David Cameron is already reaping the results of his spectacular misjudgement at Thursday’s EU summit, reports Ben Fox with the latest from Brussels.
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The view from abroad: The day Britain locked itself out
Alex Hern rounds up the press responses, both here and overseas, to David Cameron locking Britain out of EU decision making for a generation.
What are Clegg’s yellow lines?
Alex Hern examines whether there are any areas left for the Liberal Democrats to hold firm on – or have they compromised on every policy going?
EU summitry is futile; this is a global financial crisis, not a eurozone crisis
Ann Pettifor explains how the current European Union summit is futile – we are in a global financial crisis, not just a crisis of the eurozone.
Greening orders no opt-out for clothes-penetrating scanners
Alex Hern covers the DfT’s statement ending the option for a opt-out from new scanners which reveal the naked body of the person being scanned
Eurozone crisis update: From the analytical to the hysterical
Alex Hern rounds up commentators’ responses to the latest developments in the eurozone crisis.
UK set for among slowest growth in EU
New research by the European Commission shows that only Greece, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus will grow more slowly than the UK in 2011, reports Will Straw.
Remember how the agency workers directive was going to take 500,000 jobs? Yeah, well…
Alex Hern reviews the effect of the Agency Workers Directive, and finds that the right were so very wrong about what it would do to jobs.
Osborne in public: “I am not against Tobin taxes”; in private: “He remains unconvinced”
Alex Hern covers Osborne’s attack on an FTT, and questions whether his arguments against them are even internally consistent.
What has Europe ever done for us? Well…
Tony Burke runs through the many, many, many positive things the European Union has done for British workers.