Ben is currently researching his PhD on EU eastward enlargement The developing schism across the enlarged EU over further expansion is a unique opportunity to reshape it from within. Enlargement has expanded the EU deep into the former Soviet bloc. It has 25 diverse Member States (and with Bulgaria and Romania joining in January, 27), […]
Ben Pickering is a Senior Board Member of Conservative Way Forward and a public affairs head-hunter for Hanson Search. It is not often that I agree with Nick Clegg, but his Chatham House speech this week (as reported in Thursday’s Independent) is spot on. Like Clegg claims to be, I too am an Atlanticist (significantly […]