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pro-Europeanism Articles

Eurosceptics are waging an organised campaign. Where’s the pro-European voice?

If there was any question as to whether a shadow European Union referendum campaign is under way, then this week confirmed it beyond all doubt. Those who favour a referendum were out in force beginning with John Longford, director general of the British Chambers of...

The EU debate: how should Labour respond?

Well done Nick Clegg. Not for winning – it is hard to debate with someone who regards the truth as just one option – but for taking part. And for the radical strategy of making the European elections about Europe. How should Labour’s leaders respond? Ed Miliband is...

Ed should have called for EU referendum

Ed Miliband is right today to warn that Britain is ‘sleepwalking’ into leaving the EU. He is wrong, however, to rule out a referendum which is the only means by which pro-Europeans will be woken from their slumber. As set out in IPPR’s new report Staying In: A reform...

Euro fever

As the last few minutes of England’s match against Ukraine wound to a close on Tuesday evening, a friend of mine looked beamingly up at the screen and said: ‘You see, we can’t win if we’re not in Europe.’ His sustained enthusiasm for the grand projet in these dark...