This week’s meeting of EU leaders concluded with the verdict that there had been insufficient progress in the negotiations to move onto discussion of a future trade deal. That was to be expected. But the Brexit talks finally appear to have some momentum. Why, then, are EU27 leaders ready to waste almost two months, until […]
After this week’s round of Brexit negotiations, a lot of the attention went to EU negotiator Michel Barnier’s claim that there still was “deadlock” over the so-called divorce bill, and that talks about the UK’s trade status after March 2019 couldn’t start until that deadlock had been broken. EU Council President Donald Tusk has already […]
As Brexit negotiations continue, a lot of energy is still being spent on procedure. The EU side is insisting on “sufficient progress” on the issues relating to Britain’s exit before there can be any discussion on the UK’s post-exit trade status. The most sensitive issue here is of course the financial settlement, but there are […]
Nobody should blame the British media for taking a critical look at whatever the British Government does. A scrutinising media is a great asset and mainland Europe can probably learn something from the UK. But when it comes to Brexit negotiations, there’s plenty of negativity being reported, and not enough attention paid to the progress being made. […]
“The world’s ideological divide isn’t left versus right, it’s globalist versus nationalist, and globalists have work to do.” In a new essay in the Wall Street Journal, the paper’s chief economics commentator, Greg Ip, sums up the case that’s become increasingly fashionable. As he puts it in his essay: “Supporters of these disparate movements are […]
Much has been written about how to deal with the current refugee and migration crisis, but an actual comprehensive solution hasn’t been provided. According to some estimates, one year ago, there were around 60 million refugees in the world. In 2015, around one million of these 60 million entered Europe by sea, which already caused […]
So far, the EU’s response to the refugee and migration crisis, which witnessed 1.2 million illegal crossings into the EU this year, has failed. Seven EU Summits were held this year but unlike with the “Seven Summits” mountaineering challenge, not much glory was achieved with it. One measure EU member states agreed was an EU […]
During the current refugee and migration crisis, a number of myths, often propagated to serve all kind of agendas, continue to hinder the search for solutions. Here is an attempt to debunk five of them. 1. “The solution is to force countries to take in refugees and spread them across Europe” Germany and France want […]
Writing for CapX, Iain Martin writes that “the financial and political elite has behaved appallingly towards the Greeks”, noting that “it seems to be forgotten that Germany’s revival after the Second World War was underpinned by massive American aid while victors such as the UK were crippled for decades by the cost of defeating the […]
