27 09, 2024

VIDEO: Can Brexit Be Reset?

By |2024-09-27T14:54:53+00:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: Brexit, EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Migration & Identity, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , |

In this video discussion, Federal Trust Chair John Stevens argues that Sir Keir Starmer will find it difficult to secure any meaningful "reset" in relations between the EU and UK. Starmer is, according to John Stevens, excessively concerned with appeasing the anti-European element of traditional Labour voters. He should confront [...]

27 09, 2024

PODCAST: Can Brexit Be Reset?

By |2024-09-27T14:55:59+00:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Brexit, EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Future of Europe, Migration & Identity|Tags: , , , , , |

In this podcast, Federal Trust Chair John Stevens argues that Sir Keir Starmer will find it difficult to secure any meaningful "reset" in relations between the EU and UK. Starmer is, according to John Stevens, excessively concerned with appeasing the anti-European element of traditional Labour voters. He should confront rather [...]

5 03, 2024

EU sanctions: New package cracks down on third country businesses evading Russia sanctions

By |2024-03-05T18:35:30+00:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Global, Trade & Financial services, UK, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , |

New EU sanctions package crackdown on third country businesses evading Russia sanctions The European Union (EU) adopted a 13th package of sanctions against Russia last month to mark two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In line with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s pronouncement that "we must keep degrading [...]

28 02, 2024

A two-tier federal budget for the European Union

By |2024-02-28T15:53:21+00:00February 28th, 2024|Categories: EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Views from the Federal Trust|

Published by European Policy Centre The European Union is taking on new tasks. But unless legal and political constraints on its budget are lifted, the EU will be left with inadequate financial resources. In this Discussion Paper, the authors propose a radical restructuring of the EU budget after 2027 into [...]

4 01, 2024

‘What I want is a federalising Europe’: remembering Jacques Delors, a true EU champion

By |2024-01-04T18:02:30+00:00January 4th, 2024|Categories: EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , |

by John Palmer Former European editor, The Guardian, and former Political Director of the European Policy Centre; Our Council member John Palmer looks back on the achievements of former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who has died aged 98. Read the article on the Observer website here   [...]

19 10, 2023

VIDEO: Is Brexit Threatening Our Food Security?

By |2023-10-19T14:51:07+00:00October 19th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Video|Tags: , , , , , , |

In this Federal Trust video, Liz Webster of Save British Farming, describes the illusions that led some farmers to vote for Brexit. These illusions are now being contradicted by reality. In a volatile world membership of the European Union was and would be again the best guarantee of a secure [...]

17 10, 2023

Europe’s Federal Imperial Union

By |2024-09-12T16:08:36+00:00October 17th, 2023|Categories: EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Future of Europe, Global, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , |

In its time, Europe has known a lot of empires. Some, like Napoleon’s, arose from an excess of revolutionary fervour. Others, pre-eminently the Hapsburgs, were based on dynastic inheritance. The Soviet Union was forged by Bolshevist ideology. The Ottomans had a religious cause. Some empires were more enlightened than others, [...]

28 09, 2023

EU’s New Carbon Emissions Tax May Darken The Climate for UK Exporters

By |2023-09-28T15:27:14+00:00September 28th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, Climate Change, EU Policies & Institutions|Tags: , , |

The European Union (EU) has launched the world's first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) having effect from 1st October 2023. CBAM is a part of the EU's "Fit for 55" legislative package to reduce emissions by at least 55% up to 2030 from 1990 levels. How CBAM works CBAM is [...]

27 07, 2023

The First European Elections 1979 – my rainy baptism of fire!

By |2023-07-28T16:04:34+00:00July 27th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , |

by Dr Alan Hick Dr Hick is a Board Member of New Europeans International and a former senior official at the European Economic and Social Committee   In the spring of 1979, I interrupted my studies at the European University Institute in Florence in order to campaign in the first European [...]

28 06, 2023

The EU Leads the Way in Regulating Crypto-Assets

By |2023-06-28T14:49:07+00:00June 28th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, EU Policies & Institutions, Trade, Trade & Financial services, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , |

The European Union (EU) has earned the title of becoming the world’s first jurisdiction to introduce a regulatory environment specifically for overseeing a market in crypto-assets. Meantime, the UK government is currently drafting legislation on this sector while the US is said to be examining the EU’s new regulation with [...]

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