Dr Rebecca Harding, CEO Delta Economics and European Movement economic policy adviser /// All the discussion of the European economy and the imminent collapse of the European project have focused on politics and finance. In so doing, we take our eyes off the fact that Europe’s businesses are competitive globally, as evidenced through an analysis [...]

by Petros Fassoulas ||| Imagine you are a UK citizen living in another EU Member State, let’s say Germany. You moved there for work in April 2007 and you were gainfully employed until April 2009, when you were made redundant. Throughout your employment in Germany you paid taxes and national insurance contributions, yet your claim for [...]

by Ben Patterson, former MEP and current chairman of the Conservative Party in Kent. What on earth is going on inside the Conservative Party? Are the last years of the Major Government repeating themselves, with “Europe” once again tearing the Party to pieces and driving it to electoral suicide? Certainly there are still some − [...]

Events over the last few days should not come as a surprise. Mr Cameron has for a while now been unable to impose his authority upon his party on the issue of EU membership. Even though he has expressed the wish to keep Britain in the EU (albeit the reduced, one-dimensional and irrelevant EU he [...]

by Tom Spencer – former Conservative Member of the European Parliament. I believe that there will be an In/Out Referendum in 2017. I further believe that it cannot be won as a debate about the defects of the European Union as selectively chosen by the Eurosceptics. Rather we must re-engage in the debate which we [...]