Democracy Impacts

  • Crook: EU Bank's Lack of Accountability Endangers Bloc

    March 18, 2015

    Clive Crook argues that the lack of accountability of citizens of eurozone countries over the European Central Bank is part of a "democratic deficit" that may endanger the entire EU project.

  • Tusk Deems EU Treaty Change "Mission Impossible"

    March 16, 2015

    European Council President Donald Tusk has labeled the U.K. Government's prospects of amending EU treaties "mission impossible" but says he will work with Britain to generate limited changes in the country's relationship with the EU.

  • Iceland Pulls out of EU Accession Negotiations

    March 13, 2015

    Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson has announced that the country does not intend to restart negotiations to become a member of the EU.

  • Thornton: "EU Experiment Has Failed"

    March 13, 2015

    Bruce Thornton of the Hoover Institution writes that due to the crumbling of unifying beliefs such as patriotism and Christianity, the experiment of the European Union is failing, and the U.S. may be next.

  • EU Official Aims to Reassure Britain on Immigration

    March 11, 2015

    First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans has stated that EU legislation does not prohibit U.K. rules restricting migrants' access to social security and has called on the EU to "limit action to where it is urgently needed."

  • EU Official Pushes United European Foreign Policy

    March 11, 2015

    In a recent speech in the U.K., EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini labeled the EU a "superpower" and indicated her hopes, by the end of her five-year term, to see "Europe speak with one voice and one flag" on foreign policy.

  • Abulafia: Europe "Myth" Prevents Reform

    March 04, 2015

    In an article announcing the launch of a project called Historians for Britain, Professor David Abulafia argues that the myth of "Europeanness," which he says has never actually existed, is holding back the reform of the EU's institutional problems and a renegotiated U.K. relationship with the bloc.

  • Euroskeptic Party Enters Assembly in Hamburg

    February 25, 2015

    The Economist reports that Alternative for Germany ("AfD") has entered its first assembly in West Germany as the euroskeptic party and the liberal Free Democrats have attracted voters from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

  • U.K. Euroskeptics See WTO as Alternative to EU

    February 20, 2015

    Participants at a conference on alternatives to EU membership held in London examined increased reliance on membership in the World Trade Organization ("WTO") and the ability to negotiate trade deals without the consent of other EU member states as advantages of leaving the EU.

  • Civitas: Norway's EU Relationship Offers Example to U.K.

    February 13, 2015

    In a recent report, British think tank Civitas argues that the U.K. could say billions of pounds each year and maintain a close trading relationship with EU countries if they negotiated a new deal with the EU that resembles the current arrangement between the bloc and Norway.

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