Tag Archives: Brexit

Jul 12 2016

The battle lines have been etched

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Posted in: EU ref, Europe, Max Hänska, Nationalism, United Kingdom

By Max Hänska Latent tensions became manifest with the result of the Brexit referendum, etching the battle line that will define the struggles ahead. Those who have embraced and built their lives around our liberal-cosmopolitan global order, and found opportunity … Continue reading →

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Jul 7 2016

‘We want our country back’ – stop sneering, start listening

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Posted in: EU ref, United Kingdom

By Michael Skey The post-mortem is now well under way and the general consensus seems to be that those who voted leave were gullible fools led astray by a combination of a partisan press and slick political operators selling a … Continue reading →

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Jul 4 2016

On Brexit & Control

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Posted in: EU ref, Europe, Migration, United Kingdom

By Tom Gaisford The EU referendum result was not a triumph for democracy, so much as a symptom of large-scale manipulation. For all the discord and unrest it has unleashed, it may at least serve to enhance global awareness of … Continue reading →

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Jun 29 2016

Brexit and Democracy

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Posted in: EU ref, Europe, Euroscepticism, United Kingdom

By Mary Kaldor The vote to leave Europe seems to have set off a spate of events spinning in different and dangerous directions. The two main political parties are falling apart. Scottish politicians are already a tabling a second referendum … Continue reading →

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Jun 25 2016

The UK is Reaping What the British Media Have Been Sowing for a Long Time

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Posted in: EU ref, Euroscepticism, Maria Kyriakidou, United Kingdom

By Maria Kyriakidou  The result of the EU referendum and the now imminent Brexit have been met with shock and disbelief both globally and in the UK. Despite indications by the polls there was still hope that reason would prevail … Continue reading →

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Jun 9 2016

Will The Real Project Fear Please Stand Up?

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Posted in: EU ref, Europe, Henry Radice, United Kingdom

By Henry Radice This is the second in a series of pre-referendum opinion pieces, Defenestrations: (Un)Framing the EU Referendum Debate. The first one addressed the issue of the referendum itself, and attracted a powerful rejoinder from Roberto Orsi. One of … Continue reading →

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Feb 9 2016

Has the EU failed us, or have we failed to forge a European identity?

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Posted in: EU ref, Euroscepticism, Nationalism, United Kingdom

By Marina Prentoulis As a Greek citizen long resident in Britain, I cannot help noticing the almost complete absence of any sense of European identity in the UK. It seems that Britain has never really seen itself as part of … Continue reading →

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Nov 8 2015

How visible are Britain’s EU renegotiation demands across Europe’s twitterspheres?

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Posted in: Europe, Max Hänska, United Kingdom

By Max Hänska and Stefan Bauchowitz David Cameron warned EU leaders to meet Britain’s demands, as he faced mounting pressure to outline his terms for keeping the UK in the EU. He is expected to set out these demands in greater … Continue reading →

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Oct 26 2015

Brexit will give neither Hitchens nor Mason the Europe they desire

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By Denis MacShane Recently I had the pleasure of debating Europe with Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday at the Dulwich Literary Festival. Hitchens advanced the well-worn Brexit arguments about Europe being run by faceless unelected bureaucrats, imposing its … Continue reading →

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May 18 2015

Eurosceptics at a Junction: Antagonising the EU for the Sake of it is Risky

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Posted in: Euro, Europe, Euroscepticism

By Alessio Colonnelli All right-wing parties seem to dabble in anti-EU rhetoric more or less radically: the EU weakens the prerogatives of their nation-states. Germany’s Christian Democratic Union is a conspicuous exception; it sharply antagonises the further-to-the-right Alternative for Germany, … Continue reading →

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