Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts

Britain: What price freedom?

As "splendid isolation" re-appears, could not the UK simply focus on profitable trading relationships elsewhere?

Britain: Employing the young

The Deputy Prime Minister unveils a £1bn scheme to reduce youth unemployment. Firms need more encouragement still.

Europe: Is the nation-state a dying concept?

The peoples of the European continent are more regional than national in many instances.

Niger: After Gaddafi, where now?

Democratising Libya to the north, rapid development south in Nigeria, and political uncertainty west in Mali, what course for poor, landlocked Niger?

Britain: A party divided

Europe hits top spot once again amongst Conservatives as the Commons Referendum debate gets underway. Could the Party split?

Britain: population rising to 65.6 million by 2018

The equivalent of the entire population of New Zealand will be added to the UK within seven years. Are Brits ready?

Where are they now? Denis Healey

He of the bushy eyebrows, the most notable living Labour politician never to have been Prime Minister of the UK.

Britain: the LibDems struggle to shore up support

Trailing in polls at 11%, the junior Coalition partners desperately try to distance themselves from the Tories.

Belgium: on the brink

As the interim PM resigns, the King cuts short his holiday, and the markets press for stability.  What next?

Britain: a head of steam builds against the EU

100,000 people have signed a petition calling for a Europe Referendum, as 80 MPs form new Eurosceptic group.

Where are they now? Václav Havel

The playwright turned politician who stoked the Velvet Revolution and became the first President of the Czech Republic. Where is he now?