Posts Tagged ‘Britain’

Britain on the edge of Europe.

photo: Maurice / flickr.com

The outcome of the Brussels summit on December 8th and 9th is a disaster for the UK and also threatens the integrity of the single market. For more than 50 years, a fundamental principle of Britain’s foreign policy has been to be present when EU bodies take decisions, so that it can influence the outcome. [...]

Britain and the EU.

photo: World Economic Forum / flickr.com

On Friday, December 9th, 2011, at the EU summit in Brussels, the British Prime Minister David Cameron refused to sign up to a new treaty, aimed at solving the Euro zone crisis. He did it on the ground that the EU partners failed to offer safeguards for the UK-based financial services. He had a reason [...]