Next week will see the last European Parliament plenary session before the start of the election campaign for a new European Parliament, with voting taking place in early June. After the elections, the EU juggernaut will move on to selecting a new European Commission and European Council president and agreeing a forward-looking five year strategic plan.… Read More »
By Martin Roche and David Clarke The weather Gods shone on Edinburgh on 16th April. The city looked its glorious best. Locals walked taller as the sun warmed their backs.… Read More »
The European International Analysts Group has published an illuminating study on a new approach to UK/EU foreign, security and defence policy. You can read it via this link and access… Read More »
The Times (8th April) says the UK withdrew from the Erasmus programme because more students were coming to the UK from Europe than UK students going the other way. The… Read More »
As the pre-general election campaign hots up, the polls still project a massive Labour landslide. And so, several commentators are turning to contemplating questions such as whether a Labour government needs a better opposition than a collapsing, much-shrunken Tory party will provide, or whether the Tories will really implode for a long time or revive under an even further right leader, or how far or fast Keir Starmer might move on closer EU-UK relations.… Read More »
The Scottish Government wants to align its policies/legislation with the EU but willy nilly is failing to do so – and ignoring the Brussels Effect or how the EU sets the golden regulatory standard.… Read More »
By Kirsty Hughes This article was first published in Kirsty Hughes’s substack: https://kirstyhughes.substack.com/p/eu-scotland-relations-after-brexit. As we wait for the general election, now expected this autumn, the polls tell us the party… Read More »
By David Martin I wondered while listening to what was probably the final budget of this Conservative Government just how many other people would notice the dog that didn’t bark.… Read More »
