Britain & the EU
Twelve things you need to know about Brexit
10 December 2015
Prospect
What would really happen if Britain left the European Union?
The policy failures masked by scapegoating migrants
09 December 2015
Financial Times
By focusing on ‘welfare tourism’, the government has deflected criticism of its policies, writes Simon Tilford.
Tok FM: Odcinek audycji 'Połączenie'
10 November 2015
UE według Davida Camerona. Rozmawiają Agata Gostyńska i Jakub Janiszewski
LBC Radio: Cameron's EU renegotiations
03 November 2015
Ian Bond speaks to LBC radio on David Cameron's EU renegotiations.
Letters: Britain’s future depends on relations with countries outside the eurozone
18 October 2015
The Telegraph
Jaw-jaw, not war-warSIR – Britain is lucky to have the thoroughly professional Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to analyse threats to security and work with partners in tackling them.Thus the FCO recently played an exemplary role in the successful diplomacy that has curbed Iran’s nuclear programme.
Q: With Europe at the top of the Tory party conference agenda, is Cameron's EU renegotiation doomed to fail?
05 October 2015
City A.M
Simon Tilford is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, says No.
Britain can't be Norway, and Eurosceptics know this
29 September 2015
The Telegraph
Norway's relationship with the EU is being pushed as an alternative for Britain, but outers know it wouldn't work
A troubled euro needs a softer Germany
25 September 2015
The World Today: Chatham House
For those of us who think that the European Union is a good idea, the euro’s travails in recent years have been very trying. We had long assumed that the euro would encourage trade and investment across frontiers, thereby deepening the single market and boosting competition.
Vijf mythes over het Britse referendum
07 September 2015
Internationale Spectator
De Britse premier David Cameron onderhandelt de komende maanden over het Britse EU-lidmaatschap. Medio volgend jaar volgt het EU-referendum. Nederland heeft belang bij het VK in de EU, maar Den Haag kan het proces maar beperkt beïnvloeden. Wat valt er te verwachten?
Cameron's renegotiation plans: The view from Warsaw
13 August 2015
The Huffington Post
After ignoring Warsaw during his first term, David Cameron rushed to Poland immediately after his re-election in May, hoping to get the country on board his renegotiation package.
David Cameron should stand up to the eurozone
31 July 2015
Financial Times
Can Britain, a country that plans to keep its own currency, feel comfortable in an EU that is increasingly focused on the euro and its troubles? As David Cameron’s government starts negotiations with its partners on the terms...
Britain’s Eurosceptic ground zero
21 July 2015
Politico
The House of Commons doesn't even take full advantage of the powers it already has.
Wake up, Westminster! Why MPs should pay more attention to the EU
17 July 2015
British Influence
In his famous Bloomberg speech of January 2013, offering British voters a referendum on EU membership, David Cameron promised to strengthen the role of national parliaments in the EU. But are British parliamentarians up to the task? The Commons’ limited interest in European business suggest not.
The British parliament has been...
The British parliament has been...
Video on: Westminster's scrutiny of European affairs
15 July 2015
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska discusses her most recent CER publication 'A ten-point plan to strengthen Westminster's oversight of EU policy'.
See her publication here.
See her publication here.
Groundhog day for Europe: Why David Cameron needs to learn from his mistakes
15 July 2015
EPIN
Ahead of the UK general election, opinion polls predicted that Britons would wake up on May 7th to a hung parliament. But for the first time since John Major’s defeat in 1997, Britain again finds itself governed by a Conservative majority government.
Will Europe ever stop being a headache for David Cameron?
26 June 2015
The Telegraph
The PM is trying to please too many people who want very different outcomes.
If David Cameron makes a passionate case for the EU, its leaders will help him
21 June 2015
The Observer
The prime minister must not dance to the tune of his backbenchers at the Brussels summit.
Germany seeks to give Britain EU leeway — but not at any price
10 June 2015
Financial Times
David Cameron, the British prime minister, left a good impression after his recent visit to Berlin. He talked politely about his hope ffor EU reform, ahead of a referendum on membership before the end of 2017. Yet senior German figures worry about the imminent British "renegotiation". They fret that Britain’s...
How Cameron can win an EU referendum
13 May 2015
Eutopia
Now that Cameron has won Britain’s general election, he must fulfil his promise of negotiating reforms to the EU and then holding an in-or-out referendum before the end of 2017.
Listen carefully to the British
12 May 2015
Flashlight Europe - Bertelsmann-Stiftung
Other than many have predicted the general election in the United Kingdom have not led to a hung parliament but the opposite: An absolute majority for David Cameron and his Tory party.