The latest European Council has come and gone. No progress was made on Brexit. Indeed no progress has been made for months – at least since February. Tusk and May repeated the tired soundbites that progress had indeed been made,
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Tag: Donald Tusk
The transition period does not simply delay the negative consequences of Brexit – it amplifies them
Sometimes a tweet from a politician really hits the mark. So it was with this yesterday from European Council President Donald Tusk: https://x.com/eucopresident/status/976487887935074305 Brexit transition will “delay all the negative consequences of Brexit by another 21 months”. What can we
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That Theresa May photo
https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/921315451845660673 https://x.com/stephenkb/status/921323572643139584 What is the answer to that? Via this Buzzfeed piece I know it is an AP image. Looking through AP’s image bank you get to this. It says it was taken by Geert Vanden Wijngaert at October 20,
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Enough of the schadenfreude, EU. UK politics is in a mess, and it’s no laughing matter.
After the problems the UK has caused the EU over the years, and the short term headache posed by the Brexit referendum last year, Theresa May ending up with a hung parliament having hoped for a huge win last week
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A little transparency to confront the national responses to the EU’s refugee crisis
Hungary has shut its border to Serbia completely. So the refugees head towards Croatia instead (and Croatia then closes its border), and if the refugees do succeed they may need to cross minefields. Then fears are raised in Slovenia that
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Candidates for President of the European Commission – where we stand in January 2014
Back in the early summer of 2013 I wrote a detailed series of blog posts about the future President of the European Commission. There were posts about EPP, PES and other candidates. Overall those posts have stood up well over
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EPP candidates for Commission President
In a previous post I analysed the likely candidates from the centre left PES for Commission President. Here I examine who the centre right EPP might put forward. It is worth bearing in mind that the nomination process depends on
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