Help get the vote out for the EU Parliament Elections Voters in every EU member state will go to the polls between 6th and 9th June to elect members of… Read More »
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Philip Rycroft and David Shukman Live Broadcast
Live stream link announced for sell out Dumfries event on 27th April The Southwest of Scotland branch of the European Movement in Scotland has announced that its conversation between former… Read More »
EU Elections: Rising to the Democratic Moment?
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 »
EMiS Face the Music event pulls in the crowds, hits the news and engages Holyrood
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 »
New thinking on UK/EU international affairs
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 »
Erasmus – Price and Value
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 »
Semi-Detached General Election in Scotland
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 »
Brexit and the Brussels Effect
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 »