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Following #TheSpeech – Cameron in Amsterdam

NOTE: Speech has now been postponed. Will not be 18th January. New date tbc. David Cameron’s long awaited speech will take place Friday 18th January at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Here are some ideas to allow you to follow the speech. 1) Watch it live The speech starts at […]

EU Politics

The evolving story of #thespeech

I cannot remember a week with as much EU news in the UK as we have witnessed over the last 5 days. This is likely to continue in the lead up to David Cameron’s long awaited EU speech. So I’ve made a Storify of the main milestones of the preparation, […]

UK Politics

Nationalist rhetoric? Or Europeanisation of trucking?

Yesterday, via Twitter, my attention was drawn to this story on Tory MP Steve Barclay’s website entitled “New charges for foreign lorries will boost local business”. Immediately I’m thinking sounds like a distortion to the EU’s single market. So I set out to try to find out what was really going […]