Today and tomorrow sees a special conference organised by UACES to mark 40 years of British, Irish and Danish membership of the European Union. As part of that, I’m presenting my paper on how we might see the membership of the Three as a positive development for the EU: you can read the full paper […]
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Today, I’m in Strasbourg, talking to the Council of Europe about British European policy. As well as Cameron’s speech and the on-going debates about the relationship with the ECHR, I will be considering how much weight we might give to UKIP in this context. On the one hand, the party seems to be breaking free […]
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Having spent as long as I have studying euroscepticism, I have come to appreciate the difference between the short- and the long-term. The natural tendency of commentators is to see their time as special and uniquely interesting, where every little thing is a harbinger of change: certainly, since taking up this blog, I’ve been as […]
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Having been involved in a number of debates on the EU in the past week (including an edition of Any Questions hosted by the School of Politics), I have been struck by a number of common threads, none of which bode too well for any coming debate. Firstly, there remains a low level of knowledge, […]
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For months, academics, politicians, the blogosphere and even some real people have discussed both the content and the timing of David Cameron’s pronouncement. For a speech with so much hype and trailing, this was always going to be a disappointment and in that respect it did not fail. Even my own delight that ‘ever closer […]
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