The vulnerable are hurt most when states borrow too much and go bankrupt.
There are people in Brussels who will want to drive a proposal so that the institutions here can grab more power, gain more profile and seem more relevant.
On the AECR’s latest social action project we went to help on the front line. These states will eventually buckle.
Plus, we welcome a new Italian MEP to our group, as one of our former colleagues becomes President of Poland.
The disastrous economic divergence within the Eurozone’s third biggest economy.
We won in the UK, entered government in Finland, welcomed a new Italian party, won the Polish Presidency and are optimistic about the Danish election.
Its insistence on austerity measures in Southern Europe means that a Grexit and Greek debt repudiation remain likely.
An exercise in demolition.
Across Europe, the cheap soundbites and costly incompetence of populism are calling – only sober practicality can win the day.
The freedoms gained are only those you would never want to use.
There are lessons for today from the rise and fall of the “Lords of Finance” in the 1920s. Risk has been continually mispriced during recent years.
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The logic of Cameron’s position is that if the EU won’t reform he will support an Out vote in 2017.
Stronger British border controls have revealed the real problem – the failure of the EU’s open borders.