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Can we afford the “European Social Model”?

Is Europe broke? This is the question European leaders are struggling to come to terms with at the moment, as…

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Do we need referendums on EU Membership?

Last week’s head-to-head debate between British Conservative MP Bill Cash and former Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) John Bruton is now…

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What would a Eurozone break-up look like?

Last week, Debating Europe held a head-to-head debate on the consequences of a eurozone collapse. We brought together British Conservative MP Bill Cash…

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Do we need EU treaty change?

“Muddling through” will not work. That was the view shared by all participants at Friends of Europe’s “State of Europe” event…

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What do YOU make of Barroso’s State of the Union Speech?

EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso gave his 2011 “State of the Union” speech in front of the European Parliament…

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Could the EU be a free-trade superpower?

Doha is dead. The current negotiations at the World Trade Organisation has been dragging on for just shy of a…

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Are Europe’s banks in crisis?

Slowly, painfully slowly, a plan seems to be coming together to save the Eurozone. Wolfgang Münchau, writing in The Financial Times,…

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Do we need an EU-US free trade agreement?

It’s safe to say that both the US and the EU are going through something of a rough patch at…

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More EU austerity or a “new Marshall plan”?

Debating Europe recently had a suggestion sent in from Paul in the UK, who argued that the strategy of austerity…

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