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Posts Tagged: Angela Merkel

Lord Ashcroft: The Two Divides – Austerity, Brexit and the problem of building a winning coalition

When we asked people what mattered most to themselves and their families Brexit dropped to third place, with the cost of living at the top of the list.

By Lord Ashcroft | 30 September 2018 | 24 comments

May was ambushed because Merkel is too weak to lead the EU

Because the Chancellor’s coalition its riven by internal disputes, she has lost the authority to knock heads together on Brexit.

By Andrew Gimson | 22 September 2018 | 174 comments

Terry Barnes: From the Anglosphere, we watch with horror as Britain bungles its Brexit chance to go global

British politicians are negotiating as if it were 410 AD, and still the Roman province of Britannia, asking permission to leave instead of flourishing a mandate to do so.

By Terry Barnes | 15 July 2018 | 136 comments

Ashley Fox: Meanwhile, the EU has been forced to bow to reality over immigration control

David Cameron’s intervention in 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis, shows how a humane but firm approach to migration can work.

By Ashley Fox MEP | 6 July 2018 | 7 comments

Rob Wilson: One way to bring together Remainers and Leavers – negotiate a mechanism to rejoin the EU if Brexit goes badly

To progress the talks, and to move on as a nation, we need imaginative ways to cut through bitter divisions.

By Rob Wilson | 5 July 2018 | 132 comments

Immigration is tearing at the foundations of the EU’s old established order

Merkel is threatened. Macron is outraged. Brussels is paralysed. And all three trends are taken by their opponents as signs that they are winning.

By Mark Wallace | 25 June 2018 | 129 comments

Ben Roback: Children in cages – part of Trump’s playbook for the mid-terms and the next presidential election

The Republican base which is so staunchly loyal to its president shows no sign of wavering over an issue that candidate Trump was persistently vocal about.

By Ben Roback | 20 June 2018 | 111 comments

Damaged by last year’s election. Playing for time. Grappling with revolts – and resignation threats. We refer, of course, to Merkel.

The German Chancellor faces a rebellion from her Bavarian allies on the question of immigration – and is pleading for more time before the EU summit.

By Andrew Gimson | 18 June 2018 | 102 comments

A new play explores life after Brexit, when the old parties are swept aside and an irresistible popular movement is born

Michael McManus uses the theatre to explore the potential for an anti-immigrant party to break away not from the Tories, but from Labour.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 June 2018 | 95 comments

Ben Roback: On Iran, Trump again displays the art of breaking deals

The President is often taken literally but not seriously, whereas he should be taken seriously but not literally.

By Ben Roback | 9 May 2018 | 53 comments

Henry Newman: Could Macron be the leader to deliver the Brexit deal that Davis is battling for?

Despite talk of the negotiations getting bogged down, the French president seems to understand that the process is about politics more than legal complexity.

By Henry Newman | 17 April 2018 | 141 comments

Henry Newman: The unified reaction to the Skripal affair suggests talk of Britain’s ‘isolation’ was premature

To listen to some commentators a few weeks ago, you’d have thought it was only EU membership – not shared interests and values – that brings allies together.

By Henry Newman | 3 April 2018 | 85 comments

Alex Morton: It’s time to turn the Department for International Development into a Department for Humanitarian Relief

At a time when austerity continues, we need to be explain that we are not wasting taxpayers’ money on a grand delusion that we can create prosperity.

By Alex Morton | 21 February 2018 | 95 comments

There is danger now in Germany of a weak, centrist government – with extremists flourishing on both sides

Merkel has appalled her own followers by making sweeping concessions to the Social Democrats.

By Andrew Gimson | 9 February 2018 | 134 comments

Daniel Kawczynski: The Polish Government is right to pursue judicial reform

Law and Justice’s agenda is being wildly misunderstood – or misrepresented – by its critics and enjoys the strong support of the voters.

By Daniel Kawczynski MP | 27 January 2018 | 58 comments

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