Europe in or out – does the public really care?
While the Commons referendum vote is unlikely to pass, at the very least, the issue of Europe has been brought into the media, but does anybody in Britain really care?
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Making sense of Belgium’s political impasse
Ben Mitchell gives readers a primer on the state of Belgian politics, 485 days after their election – with a government finally in sight.
May is wrong: We can have a liberal immigration policy
IPPR Associate Director Matt Cavanagh writes about the potential for a new liberal immigration policy, based on both progressive values and evidence.
Judgement day approaches for the eurozone
Ben Fox explains where we are with the eurozone crisis, and argues where we should go next.
Time to move beyond the eurozone
It’s time to set out the agenda for a managed but clear process for Greece, followed by other countries, to secede from European Monetary Union and the eurozone.
Osborne increasingly isolated on Financial Transactions Tax
It’s all to play for on the Financial Transaction Tax, aka the Robin Hood Tax – despite George Osborne’s best attempts to frustrate the campaign.
Britain in the growth slow lane as demand for staff stalls
Yesterday’s Eurostat data on EU growth and this morning’s Recruitment and Employment Confederation/KPMG Report on Jobs contain more depressing news on the economy.
Can Europe’s leaders end the eurozone nightmare?
While a ‘bank levy’ scheme may be approved today, EU ministers will once again have failed to address the longer term questions on which the euro’s future rests.
Cameron defends circus animals ban farce
The prime minister sought to draw the sting out of the circus animals ban row today, insisting the government position was very similar to that of Mark Pritchard.
Euro-Tories gain a UKIP defector – but Helmer faces the chop
Ben Fox reports from Brussels on the defection of David Campbell Bannerman from the Tories to UKIP and the possible de-whipping of sexist climate denier Roger Helmer.