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Paul Goldschmidt: “Brexit” - The E.U. and the U.K. are both making hazardous bets!
The British are deliberately ignoring the recent major political developments that are shaking Europe and that demand more European Union rather than less. On the other side, the EU, fully aware that maintaining the UK in the fold is by far preferable, is tempted to offer excessive concessions. View Article |
OMFIF: Why Europe needs to resolve euro trilemma
If Cameron and Juncker fail to bring their negotiations together - on EU membership and the Five President's Report respectively-, and Britain is asked to vote in 2016, the chances of Brexit will markedly increase. View Article |
Financial Times: UK benefit reform demands appeal to rest of EU
Britain’s contentious push to curb EU migrant benefits is gaining political traction in Europe, with expectations of a February deal rising and countries such as France and Germany considering whether to introduce their own variants of the reforms David Cameron seeks. View Article |
OMFIF: Light in the multicurrency tunnel
How Merkel’s weakness could help the UK negotiation of EU reform. View Article |
MEPs quiz Commission's chief negotiator on progress ahead of UK referendum
Questions such as the need for treaty changes to meet UK demands or the safeguards of the four freedoms were put by members of EP's constitutional affairs committee to Jonathan Faull, head of the Commission's task force related to the UK referendum. View Article |
Reuters: Don't mention the Brexit: EU bans Plan B studies
European Commission economists have been banned from researching the impact of Britain leaving the 28-nation bloc, or even talking about it, for fear of getting embroiled in the heated British debate ahead of a referendum, officials said. View Article |
EurActiv: House of Lords warned EU will punish UK if it votes for Brexit
The UK’s House of Lords has been warned that Britain will be made an example of by the European Union, if it votes to quit the bloc in the upcoming referendum. View Article |
Bloomberg: Chairmen of BT and Barclays Say ‘Brexit’ Talk Damages Britain
Britain’s financial industry will be damaged if the country votes to leave the European Union, and the “Brexit” debate has already cost the U.K. some foreign investment, according to two of the nation’s most senior corporate directors. View Article |
Reuters: British funds body warns Brexit would bring 'massive disruption'
Leaving the European Union would bring "massive disruption" to Britain's 5.5 trillion pound (€7 trillion) mutual funds sector, which could lose market access without gaining regulatory freedom, a top industry official told UK Parliament. View Article |
The Telegraph: The EU must know we're prepared to quit
Conservatives for Reform in Europe promises a voice to thousands of party members and full backing to David Cameron's campaign. View Article |
The Telegraph: Chris Grayling calls EU 'disastrous' for Britain in clearest signal yet he plans to back Leave campaign
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, the Leader of the House of Commons says he backs David Cameron's plan to renegotiate Britain's membership. View Article |
The Guardian/Nicky Morgan: Britain’s future must lie within a reformed Europe
The education secretary is the first minister to declare her allegiance for the European Union ahead of the crucial referendum. View Article |
BBC/David Cameron: There's 'a good case' for new UK sovereignty law
A new law reasserting the power of UK Parliament law over the EU could be passed, David Cameron has said, once his reform talks are concluded. View Article |
EurActiv/EPC: The Frankfurt Protocol: Calling for a new treaty for the eurozone
Faced with a series of unprecedented difficulties, the EU has little choice but to move forward swiftly to the next stage of integration. The way to do that is through treaty change, argues Andrew Duff in his latest pamphlet 'The Frankfurt Protocol'. View Article |
The Telegraph: Brexit will trigger collapse of EU, warns Poland
A British exit from the EU could have catastrophic consequences for the bloc, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, said. View Article |
Remarks by Council President Donald Tusk after his meeting with President of Poland Andrzej Duda
Tusk talked about Poland, the refugee crisis, and said that "it is in the interest of the EU and Poland that the UK remains a member of the European Union," stressing that "there will be no room for discrimination" regarding UK in-working benefits for immigrants. View Article |
Report by Council President Donald Tusk to the European Parliament on the outcome of the December European Council
European Council President Tusk outlines the main highlights of the December meeting of the Council: Brexit, completing EMU and the single market, migration, terrorism and how to keep Schengen alive, among others. Commission President Juncker talks afterwards about Brexit and other European issues. View Article |
European Council: Remarks by J.Dijsselbloem following the Eurogroup meeting
Main highlights of Eurogroup president Dijsselbloem's statement were euro area recommendations, banking union, Greece, Cyprus, the reform of insolvency frameworks and the AIIB. View Article |
European Commission President's New Year's press conference
President Jean-Claude Juncker underlined his determination to focus on the Commission's number one priority – growth and jobs –, calling on Member States to pursue the strategy set out by the Commission a year ago: structural reform, fiscal responsibility and strategic investment. View Article |