The PM has been on tour to try to renegotiate the UK’s place in Europe. Now he faces his party.
- Associate Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies
Academic experts break down the bills in the Queen’s speech and get to grips with the new Conservative government’s agenda.
Renegotiation, reform, repatriation - only one will work.
Now that he commands a majority government, what might Cameron’s demands to the EU be and what’s his worst nightmare?
After the 2010 election, the coalition promptly ordered a huge review of the EU. Then it spent years ignoring the findings.
For the European Union, the prospect of Scottish secession from the UK was a key component of the nightmare scenario of everything falling apart, inside and outside. After all, let’s not forget that there…
Writing from Kiev, the city is boiling with rage. And now all Europeans too may boil with rage as 189 Dutch and smaller numbers of Belgians, British, French and Germans perished, when their Malaysian Airlines…
Ukraine is disintegrating before our eyes, with escalating anarchy, civil war and proxy war with Russia, and dozens killed in Odessa on Friday. Acting President Alexander Turchinov officially declared…
Having given himself the authority to invade Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin is now pushing right up against the red lines, if he has not already overstepped them. This is the point at which…
Events in Ukraine mark not only the start of a momentous shift in the region, but serve to chart the disturbing erosion of Britain’s global clout. If only the UK government would take its lead from the…
When in Kiev recently I asked many Ukrainians how they thought the raging political and now violent conflict would end. All said they had no idea, but one of them said he had eight scenarios, which included…
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