CIB chairman Edward Spalton discovers an old copy of Punch from 1851 in his loft, and reflects on how many of the themes of mid-nineteenth century European geopolitics are still with us today, more than 150 years later. A […]
The EU, we are told, is a good thing because it has kept the peace in Europe over the past 70 years. It may be true that the nations of Western Europe have not been at war with one another […]
From the Herald, Scotland Ed Miliband is facing growing pressure after the leader of the UK’s second biggest union called for voters to be offered a referendum on the European Union. Paul Kenny, the general secretary of the GMB, said […]
A Speech by John Harrison FCA, FCCA, Honorary Treasurer of The Campaign for an Independent Britain in Derby, 11th July 2014 Introduction The European project was always a political project. The economic side was the cover for gradually creating a […]
Rome came within days of bankruptcy last month, after parliament threw out a bill that would have injected fresh funding to reduce its €816m (£671m) budget deficit. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi approved a last-minute emergency decree that bailed out the […]
A prominent German jurist has sharply criticized the German government’s anti-Russian declarations concerning the Crimea Crisis. As Reinhard Merkel, a law professor at the University of Hamburg, explains, the allegation of Russia having “annexed” the Crimea or having made a […]
