Denmark’s possible EU Patent Court referendum – an opportunity?
[Please note: this is not a piece about referendums in general, and nor does it call into question my overall position as a referendum-sceptic. It relates to a very specific Danish...
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Enlightenment pro-EU, versus values based pro-EU – some thoughts about Garton Ash and an in-out referendum
So Timothy Garton Ash has nailed his colours to the mast in The Guardian, and stated the case for an in-or-out of the EU referendum in the UK to be…
Time, and Scotland and the EU
Oh here we go again. It seems the question of how an independent Scotland could work in the EU will never go away. Rather than focusing on the EU’s Nobel…
If you’re British and care about UK-EU relations, then you’re either in a state of permanent delusion or permanent depression
Two grandees of UK politics were at it again today. Peter Mandelson, while at least acknowledging an in-out referendum for the UK, was nevertheless pompous and deluded in the FT:…
Britain, perhaps it’s time to hold a referendum and to leave the EU
I’m going to start this blog entry with the assertion of my basic views, for these remain unchanged. For it is the circumstances that have altered, as I will explain….
Calls for EU referendum in UK ‘a distraction’ | Public Service Europe
Calls for EU referendum in UK ‘a distraction’ – Public Service Europe. Calls for EU referendum in UK ‘a distraction’ – Public Service Europe.
What would leaving the EU actually mean in practice?
In 2005 I went to France to campaign in the referendum on the European Constitution, making the case for oui. One thing about that campaign has been with me ever…
Britain national interest in the EU, or citizens’ interests in the EU?
It’s so easy for non-EU-phobic politicians in the UK to slip into it: a discourse that membership of the European Union is ‘in Britain’s national interest’. Wayne David’s recent piece…
