Tag: Brexit

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has fired off an undiplomatic warning to British Conservatives that they risk losing out to the eurosceptic UKIP party in the next British elections, saying British voters would rather vote for the original than the copy.

European banks would leave London "in very short order" if Britain voted to exit the European Union, a senior Goldman Sachs executive said in a newspaper interview published yesterday (2 September).

Herman Van Rompuy, European Council President, issued his strongest warning yet to Britain, saying in a speech in London yesterday (28 February) that the EU's door was open to those in the club who want to leave.

A potential British exit from the European Union should not influence the ongoing negotiations on the EU budget for 2014-2020, according to Janusz Lewandowski, the EU's budget commissioner.

A new band of ‘euro-realists’ has appeared on the scene, composed mostly of Tory Britons. In the European Parliament, they cluster in the group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), and are little aware of the true state of the Union, argues Andrew Duff.

Prime Minister David Cameron will spell out plans to dilute Britain's membership in the European Union on Friday (18 January) in the Netherlands, a move that could reshape its role in the world, upset some of the premier's allies and decide his government's fate.