David Cameron’s negative approach of demanding a renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership terms and putting this to a referendum is a cloud hanging over this week’s European elections, warns Professor Dimitris Papadimitriou. This is a strategy that could backfire spectacularly. This week’s elections to the European Parliament are overshadowed in Britain by the rise of UKIP and […]
Presidental hopeful Verhofstadt showing courage needed to reinvent the EU
Ahead of the EU elections, Liberal candidate for the European Commission Presidency, Guy Verhofstadt, came to Manchester to outline his credentials. Mustafa Cirakli reports that Verhofstadt’s message was clear: we need more Europe. National media across the EU have focused on the rise of Eurosceptics such as UKIP in the UK and France’s National Front. But […]