EU
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.
There is a role for the Left in the EU, if it wants it
Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos argues that there is a role for the left in the EU, but it can't take that up if it abdicates its voice.
Cameron should be counting the cost of his Eurosceptic appeasement
With 81 of the 305 Tory MPs voting against their government on the EU referendum vote, it is clear David Cameron cannot control the Eurosceptic Tory backbenches.