The UK is refusing to grant full diplomatic status to the EU’s ambassador to the UK, on the basis that the EU is not a sovereign state. The EU and its supporters are predictably angry, but this move is in […]
Executive Director of Veterans for Britain Dr Lee Rotherham provides an overview of the complex web that is the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Like much European integration over the decades, it represents integration by stealth, and will pose […]
CIB committee member Dr Lee Rotherham looks at the EU’s double standards when it comes to transparency. For an organisation which sees itself as a ‘normative power’, the EU is remarkably adept at covering up malpractice and corruption with its ranks. […]
CIB committee member Dr Lee Rotherham explains why the famous ‘Barnier staircase’ PowerPoint slide is misleading, and why EU precedent and the Commission’s own terminology show there are many more options available than Barnier’s simplistic slide would suggest. This article […]
With the EU insisting that it cannot (or will not) do a trade deal with the UK within a year, and Boris Johnson stating that he will not extend the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, it is more important […]
Director of the Red Cell think tank and CIB committee member Dr Lee Rotherham explains why the Yellowhammer document is not a prediction of what is likely to happen but a ‘reasonable worst case scenario’. What exactly does this mean, […]
