Urgency of Now: Reforming fisheries policy, protecting biodiversity
William Bain MP, the shadow food, farming and fisheries minister, writes on the need to reform the Common Fisheries Policy and the need to protect biodiversity.
EU
Blair’s elected EU President plan not as far-fetched as it sounds
Left Foot Forward’s Ben Fox reports from Brussels on former prime minister Tony Blair’s plans for a European Union President.
EU ministers shut the door on North African refugee crisis
Ben Fox reports from Brussels on the lurch to the right among European Union home affairs ministers, who are threatening to close the door on North African refugees.
David Miliband: EU relations with “great national powers” are a cause for concern
Dominic Browne reports on David Miliband’s speech in which he expresses concern over EU relations with “great national powers”.
A thousand economists agree on something – the Robin Hood Tax
Dominic Browne reports on the thousand economists who have voiced their support for the robin hood tax to the G20 finance ministers.
ActionAid: UK biofuels targets do more harm than good
We risk reversing progress on global hunger and climate change if we don’t change current biofuels targets in the UK reports ActionAid UK’s Jonathan Tench.
Britain is part of the problem on financial reform
By Lydia Prieg The UK is subverting progress towards a safer financial system and has become a major barrier to international efforts for reform, according to a new report from the New Economics Foundation. Compared even to the US, a jurisdictiontest
Britain: Euroconfused not Eurosceptic
Joe Litobarski analyses two recent polls that throw new light on the British public’s opinions on European Union, which challenge the UK’s image as a ‘Eurosceptic’ nation.
Kaminski’s resignation leaves Cameron’s EU group on verge of collapse
Polish extremist Michal Kaminski’s resignation from the Law and Justice Party has opened up a power vacuum in the ECR, David Cameron’s far-right European Parliament grouping, reports Left Foot Forward’s man in the corridors of power in Brussels, Ben Fox.
EU should join forces with China to create a joint carbon market
If Ed Miliband were to set out a radical programme for climate change that urged the EU to join forces with China to create a joint carbon market establishing an international price for carbon around the globe it could be a game changer. More than that: it could be a game changer that market makers in the US suddenly find threatening. America can resist any opposition to its policies. What it cannot take is being sidelined.