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Cameron and the EU: What’s good for business versus the democratic deficit?

Mick Fealty on June 27, 2014, 11:33 am | Readers 78

So the EU leaders meet today, and it surely has to say something Jean Claude Juncker seems already confident of getting the job of President of the European Commission. For those who don’t know, Jean Claude is that Luxembourger geezer with the dodgy line in what happens when things get serious. And that’s not even mentioning his past “entanglement in Luxembourg intelligence affairs”. The odd thing is not just Cameron’s obvious distain for playing the European game (given this has been …

“The Swiss have wanted a passport for their banks for years and the EU has denied it…”

Mick Fealty on May 20, 2014, 5:01 pm | Readers 51

The whole of this discussion and the infill linking pieces are well worth watching if you can get it from last night’s Newsnight… Hugo is not so strong on the political deficit question, but he is very strong on the economic consequences of a UK exit from the European Union… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking …