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Ryan Bourne - 18 January 2013 - Europe

This article is an excerpt from our Growth Bulletin, authored by Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox. To read the full article, click here. To sign up for our mailings, use the form on the left of our newsletter page. The great majority of the Conservative party is clear that Britain's relationship with ...

Ted Bromund - 17 January 2013 - Europe

I hate to disagree with Dan Hannan about the European Union, but this time, he's 100% wrong.In his energetic response to Philip Gordon's ill-conceived request that Britain forget about recovering its sovereignty and protecting its democracy, Hannan argues that the State Department wants Britain in the EU because the U.S. ...

Ryan Bourne - 13 January 2013 - Europe

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In late 2011 the Centre for Policy Studies published Peter Oborne’s ‘Guilty Men’, which sought to catalogue many of the arguments and scare -stories used by those who wanted Britain to join the euro in the 1990s. Over the past ...

Gaspard Koenig - 28 November 2012 - Europe

Gaspard Koenig is a French liberal author and politician. The first meeting of his French think tank 'Génération Libre', which launches in the New Year, took place at the Centre for Policy Studies earlier this month. You can follow him on Twitter @gaspard2012. French people are famous for endless debates and arguments. Any foreigner ...

Gaspard Koenig - 02 October 2012 - Europe

Gaspard Koenig is a French liberal author and politician. He is currently working in London for the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). He recently ran a liberal campaign in London in a Parliamentary election for French living abroad. You can follow him on Twitter @gaspard2012.The French press and main ...

Gaspard Koenig - 21 August 2012 - Europe

French author Gaspard Koenig blogs on President Holland's first 100 days in charge and concludes the Socialist leader's policies all stem from a single rigorous point of doctrine: the political will can and should tame, and even replace, intrinsically evil markets.For a long time I couldn’t fully conceive how Hollande, a ...

Ted Bromund - 27 July 2012 - Europe

Dr. Ted R. Bromund is the Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom in the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Charles C.W. Cooke has a piece up on National Review Online on “How Thatcher Became Eurosceptic” that is mandatory reading for the friends of the Centre, ...

Ryan Bourne - 02 July 2012 - Europe

Should we have an EU referendum?At Dr Fox’s speech on the EU this morning, Nick Robinson of the BBC suggested that Fox’s admission that he thought we had nothing to fear from EU exit was a very significant moment. Up until the last few months, Conservative MPs have felt unable ...

Jeremy Jennings - 01 May 2012 - Europe

In a follow up to yesterday's blog about Marine Le Pen, Professor Jeremy Jennings of QMUL writes on the losers of the first round of the French Presidential election. If Marine Le Pen was the symbolic winner of the first round of France’s Presidential elections, who were the losers?Most obviously, Nicolas ...

Jeremy Jennings - 30 April 2012 - Europe

Professor Jeremy Jennings, expert on French political philosophy, notes that Marine Le Pen and her anti-EU policies are the real winners of the first round of the French vote. Make no mistake. There was only one winner of the first round of France’s presidential election on April 22 and it was ...

Centro Einaudi - 27 April 2012 - Europe

In the first of a quarterly series of updates from the Italian political scene, the Centro Einaudi - a think tank dedicated to the legacy of former Prime Minister Luigi Einaudi - notes that as the economic situation returns from the brink, it becomes harder to convince the Italian public ...

Jeremy Jennings - 12 December 2011 - Europe

Last Friday I had dinner with a friend from the French Embassy. He and his wife came hotfoot from a reception at the ambassador’s residence in Kensington Park Gardens after what must have been a busy day for Embassy staff. It is hard to over-emphasise the professionalism of such people ...

Tim Knox - 09 December 2011 - Europe

The Prime Minister’s decisive action last night is greatly welcome. By using the national veto, he has saved our sovereignty, our economic interests and his own reputation.But now comes the hard part. This is only the beginning of a new phase in our relationship with the club-within-a-club of the European ...

Lewis Brown - 16 November 2011 - Europe

This week at the CPS we launched the first of our new debate series ‘Do critics of Conservative Euro-sceptics have anything to apologise for?’. Following on from Peter Oborne’s Guilty Men book, the debate between Oborne and Times journalist David Aaronovitch centres around the prescience of those who did not ...