Blog
November 12, 2018
In a world of increasing economic protectionism, the EU claims to remain committed to free and fair international trade.
October 1, 2018
In many ways the EU acts like a customs union when it comes to migration that leads to employment.
August 23, 2018
I ordered 200 millilitres of e-cigarette fluid from my online retailer this week. Not a large quantity – it is barely a third of a pint – and yet it came in twenty separate bottles, as it always does.
August 7, 2018
Picture yourself at a friend’s house. Your Samsung phone buzzes, alerting you to low battery, but you’ve left your charger at home. You ask your friends to borrow one of theirs but, alas, you’re alone in a sea of iPhone users.
July 18, 2018
The European Commission decision in the Google Android case illustrates the difference in approach to antitrust issues between the US and EU.
June 4, 2018
The EU member states have agreed that 20 million people should be lifted out of poverty by 2020.
May 11, 2018
On May 2 the European Commission released a Communication that outlined the Union’s overall budgetary plan for the 2021 – 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which included the proposal of a 5% funding cut to the Common Agricultural Policy.
April 11, 2018
One year after the triggering of Article 50 an acceptable deal on financial services between the UK and the EU now looks likely.
March 15, 2018
‘You can’t just point at things and tax them,’ said the singer Myleene Klass to Ed Miliband in a TV debate about the ‘mansion tax’ in 2014.
