EU summit to challenge protectionism
The Eastern members of the European Union are holding a mini-summit prior to all EU Heads of States and Governments convening an emergency summit on 1st March 2009 to discuss protectionism, writes...
View ArticleSingle Market completion is a poisoned chalice
A new Civitas publication highlights the contradictions in David Cameron’s Bloomberg Speech. All but hardened Eurosceptics tend to feel that whatever the EU’s problems, the single market is an...
View ArticleLord Lawson is right – the EU costs too much to stay
Today the former Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, announced his intention to vote out of Europe ( full text [£]). His analysis ranged from the military to the political, but he was most accurate regarding the...
View ArticleNew Europhile campaign’s failure to launch
This morning saw the launch of the ‘Our Biggest Market’ campaign, the pro-Europeans’ latest manifestation of the after ‘British Influence’ and ‘Business for New Europe (BNE)’ failed to gain media...
View ArticleBrexit would not harm UK trade and investment
The Prime Minister will have even multiple fires to put out on the subject of the EU in the coming weeks, with the upcoming debate on the European Arrest Warrant, the distinct possibility of another...
View ArticleWho sees the globalisation elephant in the EU debate?
Open Europe’s new study, ‘What If?’, has been panned by Eurosceptics for suggesting that leaving the EU could realistically cost 0.8% GDP, while few praised the alternate finding that, by 2030, exit...
View ArticleEU unemployment is a persistent problem
One of the characteristic themes of the Eurozone crisis has been the astronomical unemployment rates in the EU. While the financial crisis brought this issue to the fore, a new Civitas report by...
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