The truth is that Eurocrats see Britain as a rule-taking dependent, like Macedonia or Ukraine, rather than as a wholly independent nation.
For both sides, this is a new kind of deal-making. Although Britain is still a member, this is not an internal negotiation in which the UK can be outgunned and outvoted:
We are uniquely placed to compete in and win the race for business opportunities in the world’s largest democracy.
Happily, a well-educated younger generation of Ukrainians will begin to replace those who so spectacularly failed to build on the spirit of the Orange Revolution.
It’s hard work, but we are putting deregulation on the agenda in Brussels – with success.
In recent days Italy and Poland had both signalled unhappiness that the EU was pressing ahead with ambitious climate change targets at a time of grave economic difficulty. Silvio Berlusconi has said "Our businesses are in absolutely no position at the moment to absorb the costs of the regulations that have been proposed" while Poland’s […]
EUBusiness.com is reporting that Europe’s key centre right leaders – Berlusconi, Merkel and Sarkozy – have endorsed a second term for EU Commission chief José Manuel Durão Barroso. The Head of the Commission is chosen by heads of government. As Prime Minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004 Barroso gained a reputation as a fiscal […]
We are uniquely placed to compete in and win the race for business opportunities in the world’s largest democracy.