“I don’t want anything to do with the European Movement. They are federalists!” Those were the words a British friend of a friend in Brussels said to me this week as we were discussing what sort of organisations would be
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Tag: In-Out Referendum
How a Labour victory in 2015 makes the UK leaving the EU more likely
Two separate conversations in Brussels this week, both with Brits, but with people of very different political persuasions, led me to the odd conclusion summed up by the title of this blog entry – Britain leaving the EU is more
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The UK-EU argument is a proxy for the vital debate about the UK’s economic, geopolitical and democratic future
There are two common, and incorrect, justifications for not acting in politics. The first is that now is not the right time, because at the moment everything else is more important. That is the justification most often used by opponents
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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 held sometime between 2015 and 2020. Loads of people are
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