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‘We are not short of ideas – what is missing is the political will’. These words, by European Commission vice-president Joaquín Almunia, captured perfectly the mood at yesterday’s Policy Network conference on the aftermath of the European elections. More than by just...

Beyond the issue of membership itself, Brits with an interest in Europe should turn our attention to meaningful reform of an embattled European Union. Others are doing so: this month’s Occasional Paper in the Social Europe Journal, ‘We need a Europe that is truly...

Labour must understand the way Europe is heading —I have serious reservations about the ‘One Nation’ tag that Labour has filched from the Conservatives and nailed to its masthead. It is too inward-looking and parochial. We are living through one of the most...

The British debate on the European Union takes further integration in the euro area for granted. As the mantra goes, the sovereign debt crisis has shown that the euro set-up was ill-planned from the outset and that a federal ‘leap forward’ is necessary. Yet talk about...