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Posts Tagged: Lisbon Treaty

Michael McManus: Maggie and Ted – my new play about the most notorious feud in modern political history

I worked for both of them, and they were extraordinary human beings. But they were also both contingent, flawed, and also with their all-too-obvious blind spots.

By Michael McManus | 22 October 2019 | 17 comments

The GATT XXIV plan – and why Brexiteers should pay the EU the compliment of taking its negotiating stance seriously.

Leavers insist correctly that the EU is a political project first and foremost. Which helps to explain why this scheme is unlikely to fly.

By Paul Goodman | 24 June 2019 | 403 comments

The Government is bluffing. Why I and many others will vote against the Withdrawal Agreement later today.

The EU won’t grant us a long extension for fear of what European elections here would produce. If we hold our nerve, the UK will Brexit on WTO terms in April.

By Mark Francois MP | 29 March 2019 | 198 comments

Interview: Francois insists that the ERG wants the backstop ditched altogether – not tweaked

“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”

By Andrew Gimson | 23 January 2019 | 110 comments

How Dublin ran rings round May on the Northern Ireland border

Tony Connelly describes in painful detail the success of Irish negotiators in aligning themselves with the EU27, while leaving the Brits to flounder.

By Andrew Gimson | 15 December 2018 | 121 comments

Andrew Murrison: After Salzburg, the EU needs a reality check on its security plans. Urgently.

I wouldn’t want to be the politician who has to explain why the purity of EU institutions came before cooperation that could have prevented a security incident.

By Dr Andrew Murrison | 22 September 2018 | 92 comments

Peter Marshall: The EU is the cuckoo in the WTO nest

The latter has never had the clout nor the resources required for it to do its ever-expanding task. It has had to play catch-up.
 


By Sir Peter Marshall | 16 July 2018 | 47 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

Bill Cash: The EU Withdrawal Bill. No Conservative colleague should defy the will of the people next week.

The referendum transferred from MPs themselves the decision as to whether to remain in or leave the EU and – with it, to regain our freedom to make our own laws.

By Sir William Cash | 6 June 2018 | 104 comments

Will Italy’s new government blow the bloody doors off? Don’t get your hopes up. (Or your fears either.)

One day the country’s voters may dig in against the long squeeze imposed on them from northern Europe. But don’t be too sure it will happen yet.

By Paul Goodman | 19 May 2018 | 126 comments

Peter Marshall: We must all now focus on finding a way to build a positive future relationship

We need to rekindle l’esprit communautaire, on both sides of the channel. In Walpole’s famous phrase, “this dance can no longer go”.

By Sir Peter Marshall | 11 March 2018 | 40 comments

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