Given the scale of what we achieve at EMiS, I often think we forget that we are a voluntary organisation with only one member of staff. And yet what we achieve with our very small budget is often something more akin to what a very large organisation would attempt.… Read More »
On 17th April, Executive Committee member Martin Roche interviewed Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar for the community radio station on Glasgow’s Southside, Glad Radio. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Sarwar… Read More »
40 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev, to coin a phrase, set out to make the USSR great again. Gorbachev was acutely aware of the uncompetitive nature of the USSR’s economy and the need to inject market mechanisms into it. He saw Eastern Europe as a drain on the USSR’s standard of living, observing that cheap Soviet exports such as fuel, meant that poorly off Russians were subsidising better-off Poles and Czechs. Furthermore, he noted that while the Soviet Union was spending around 12% of its GNP on defence, this compared with under 6% for its satellites.… Read More »
European Movement in Scotland (EMiS) Chair David Clarke secured the top spot on The Herald’s letters page on 11th April. https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/25081182.special-relationship-dead-must-rebuild-links-europe
Donald Trump’s style of diplomacy is typically financially transactional and frequently bullying. In negotiating a trade agreement with the UK, the President is not going to change his spots. His tone may be friendly and his words soft, but he’ll want Donald Trump to win. The balance of any deal must favour Trump. For him, there’s no point in negotiating unless he comes out top dog and is seen globally to be top dog.… Read More »
US President Trump is dismantling the 80-year-old economic and security order and seeking to install a new American imperialist autarky. Time for Europe to remake itself.… Read More »
Festival of Europe lines up top-flight speakers to discuss recent dramatic developments on the world stage and how UK should respond Keeping democracy healthy in Europe is key theme, says… Read More »
This article was first published on 27 March 2025 on Kirsty Hughes’s substack at https://kirstyhughes.substack.com/p/scotland-independence-in-europe-in. By Kirsty Hughes Scotland’s independence debate is largely invisible at the moment, despite a small… Read More »
