Hilary Clinton’s Scorecard
How Did Hilary Clinton fare as Secretary of State? Last week Hilary Rodham Clinton stepped down as the US Secretary of State, being replaced by John Kerry, who unsuccessfully stood against George W...
View ArticleNo visas, no borders, no checks!
Owen Harmon I have spent the past two months flying between Berlin and Budapest on business and not once has my passport been checked. On the last 2 flights, the secretary spelled my name wrong on...
View ArticleWorld Affairs News Round Up 28/02/13
If anybody was worried that North Korea had calmed down, they can sleep easy again tonight. The regime in Pyongyang announced that the US was now within range of its rockets. North Korea has been...
View ArticleWhy Are Brits Such Bad Europeans?
Despite the efforts of successive governments over the decades, Brits have shown a stubborn refusal to embrace the European identity. It can’t be easy being a Europhile in Britain. I can only imagine...
View Article‘Tough’ Immigration Rhetoric Rises whilst Facts are Forgotten
The political class of today is eating a mess of its own making. For too long no one would talk about immigration, now they can’t talk enough about it. A force that is overwhelmingly beneficial for...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher’s legacy is a spirit of freedom
Rory Broomfield, Deputy-Director of The Freedom Association, says that Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is more than many think. Much has been written about Margaret Thatcher’s legacy but the one thing that...
View ArticleLibertarians & Public Nudity
Defenders of liberty must be defenders of nudity Next to property rights, perhaps the most sacred totem to libertarians is freedom of expression. Normally this manifests itself in freedom of speech,...
View ArticleThe rise of UKIP reflects a European trend that needs to be addressed.
by Giles Goodall and Petros Fassoulas, European Movement.* All UKIP has to offer is mud. UKIP’s relative success in the English local elections and South Shields by-election this week has met with...
View ArticleTowards a New Informal Empire
Allrik Birch Last week I talked about how Britain could temper any (unlikely) damage done to trade through withdrawing from the EU by building trade links with Commonwealth nations, nations who are...
View ArticleEurope’s Financial Transaction Tax Lurks in the Periphery
Greg Dooley, The complexity of the European Union has been exacerbated in recent years by a continuing cycle of new policy proposals and debates surrounding the organisation’s future. The global...
View ArticleAndroid Dominates Apple’s iPhone in Europe
Apple was dealt a blow yesterday as the iPhone lost market share to Google’s Android operating system in Western Europe, according to market researcher IDC. In the first quarter of 2013, Android...
View ArticleWhy Erasmus Works.
Alessandro Fusco International Officer, Young European Movement UK explains the benefits of the Erasmus scheme. As my plane was descending on the sundried Castilian countryside, I remember the...
View ArticleA House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
The UK should accept the European Court of Human Right’s judgements or withdraw entirely The British press reacted to the Court’s recent decision on whole-life sentences with typical restraint....
View Article71% said they would prefer Britain to leave the EU and join EFTA
Robert Oulds maintains we would be better off OUT of the EU and IN the EFTA. A majority of voters would prefer the UK to be a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as opposed to the EU,...
View ArticleWhat are your EU rights when travelling across the EU?
All you need to know about travel across the EU. Europeans make about 1.5 billion trips a year, with 90% of those trips taking within the EU. A large part of those trips are for holiday and as many of...
View ArticleOld Holborn: It’s their Party and they’ll cry if they want to.
It is an interesting time for Political parties as they struggle with Police investigations into funding and vote rigging, lobbying scandals, trying to grapple with the concept of falling membership,...
View ArticleThe Conservatives and Europe
By Joshua Rowlands The Conservative Party throughout its long standing history has built an electoral strategy and party image of empire and nation. With the disintegration of the empire in the...
View ArticleLabour’s Immigration Malaise
Labour’s immigration policy paralysis reveals a deeper political malaise Dystopian state vans roaming the streets intimidating residents. Web pages committing murder. No, this isn’t 1984, but 21st...
View ArticleUKIP can change the face of British Politics
By John Tennant, UKIP North East Far above Britain, political storm clouds are gathering. For more than a century, two large political parties – the Conservatives and the Labour Party have dominated...
View ArticleJames Bond Is Rubbish. So Why Do We Love It?
With the release of the latest James Bond novel, Solo, we ask why Brits love spooks, while our European cousins don’t. The original Ian Fleming James Bond novels were published just as Britain was...
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