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Tag Archives: eu
May 10 2013
Mythbusting: Scroungers, Migrants and the EU. Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Stephen Reid at NEF blog contrasts what leading politicians say about welfare recipients with reality. The ‘strivers versus skivers‘ myth ‘helps to justify what might otherwise be unpopular economic policies, like spending cuts and punitive welfare-to-work policies’. The NIESR does not … Continue reading
Posted by: May 10, 2013
Tagged with: benefits, eu, immigration, Keynes, welfare
Apr 6 2013
Real progress is now being made towards reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
1 CommentTweet The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the EU’s oldest and most important policy instruments, making up around 40 per cent of the EU budget. Wyn Grant writes that the most recent round of proposed reforms to the CAP focus … Continue reading
Posted by: April 6, 2013
Tagged with: Common Agricultural Policy, eu
Mar 28 2013
Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: “Germany has created an accidental empire”
2 CommentsTweet Are we now living in a German Europe? In an interview with EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Ulrich Beck discusses German dominance of the European Union, the divisive effects of austerity policies, and the relevance of his concept … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2013
Tagged with: eu, Europe, European integration, Germany, Ulrich Beck
Mar 8 2013
Will ‘Eurosis’ condemn Britain to be an outsider looking in?
Leave a commentTweet The last two and a half years have seen the biggest change of Britain’s European policy in its four-decade membership of the European Union. In the first of a series of blogs on EU institutions and their history, Anthony Teasdale argues … Continue reading
Posted by: March 8, 2013
Tagged with: David Cameron, eu, Europe, UK
Mar 6 2013
UK membership of the EU: Party competition over a low salience issue
3 CommentsTweet The rise of UKIP has heightened existing tensions within the Conservative party over the EU, which the Prime Minister’s promise of a future referendum has dampened without finally resolving. However Ben Clements, Philip Lynch and Richard Whitaker argue that the available evidence shows that this is an … Continue reading
Posted by: March 6, 2013
Tagged with: eu, euroscepticism, Eurosceptics, UKIP
Feb 21 2013
An American perspective on the EU: The United States should work to ensure European stability
Leave a commentTweet Last month the advice from a senior US official that Britain should stay in the EU received widespread media attention. Katrina Kelly offers an analysis of the EU from an American perspective, suggesting that the future relationship between the US … Continue reading
Posted by: February 21, 2013
Tagged with: eu, Europe, euroscepticism, united states
Feb 14 2013
Five minutes with Marta Andreasen, UKIP MEP for South East England – “UKIP could do more to attract women if they respected the women that they have”
2 CommentsTweet The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) gained the second largest share of the UK’s vote in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. In an interview with EUROPP’s editors, UKIP MEP and former Chief Accountant of the European Commission, Marta Andreasen, discusses … Continue reading
Posted by: February 14, 2013
Tagged with: eu, Europe, Marta Andreasen, UKIP
Feb 9 2013
The uncertainty created by David Cameron’s policy on EU membership may cost the UK’s already troubled economy
Leave a commentTweet Prior to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on the country’s relationship with the EU, Michael Emerson set out several hazards that his strategy was expected to face. Revisiting these hazards after the speech, he finds them to be mostly confirmed. He … Continue reading
Posted by: February 9, 2013
Tagged with: business and regulation, David Cameron, economy, eu, EU institutions, european economics, finance, government and politics and enlargement, Michael Emerson, referendum, The Euro, UK
