Running Commentary XIV
The wheels are starting to fall off Some thing important is happening to the Article 50 process, and it’s not good. The EU side seems well prepared to start the first formal session of the...
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Tottering Tories Like an embarrassing drunk at a party, the UK lurches towards the exit. My latest long piece on the Brexit state of play, published by the European Policy Centre, assessed the...
View ArticleRunning Commentary XVI: Brexit and Euratom: No need to panic
Rocket science Incipient panic about the future of Britain’s nuclear industry has rocketed Euratom into the Brexit headlines. In so doing, staggering ignorance is displayed by too many MPs and...
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Because the Article 50 negotiations appear to be going so well – a happy fact which allows Prime Minister May to take a three week holiday in the Alps – one can take a step back to reflect on the wider...
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Withdrawal symptoms As we can see, the Article 50 negotiations are in a good deal of trouble. At this rate there is no chance that the European Council will construe that the necessary sufficient...
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Is the European Parliament really a serious parliament ?
Over the years, step by step, the European Parliament has won a share of real constitutional power. At times, as in 1984 with the Spinelli Draft Treaty and in 2002-03 in the Convention on the Future of...
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Not savaged but salvaged The big news is that, after some febrile weeks, the latest European Council (19-20 October) agreed to salvage Theresa May. President Donald Tusk and his colleagues took the...
View ArticleRunning Commentary XX – How the British came and went
In fourteen months time the European Union treaties will cease to apply to the United Kingdom. This event will bring to an end almost half a century of Britain’s unquiet membership of the continental...
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Towards the political declaration The European Council (22-23 March) has to assess the strategic impact of Brexit on the future of Europe. Although the heads of government have followed the Brexit...
View ArticleHow the new Commission will treat EU constitutional reform
Every Commission must be judged on how far it has been able to deepen the polity of the Union and widen the scope of European integration. The outgoing college of Jean-Claude Juncker has not had many...
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