The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is a political court. It actually has a most inappropriate name, as justice is not its overarching purpose. It exists rather to further the objectives of ever closer union. It therefore came therefore as […]
A Civitas paper by Brian Binley MP and CIB Committee member Dr Lee Rotherham. If and when David Cameron launches his renegotiations for the UK’s membership of the EU, he needs to recognise that our present terms of membership do […]
The daily round-robin e-mail from Open Europe on Monday 2nd March would have been unhappy reading for what might be termed the “EU mainstream.” No fewer than four of the eleven items featured discussed political parties in different countries which […]
There has been much scaremongering about the scale of job losses were the UK to leave the EU. The reality, especially in the small business sector, is very different. Nigel Moore runs a specialised technical consultancy business and has experienced […]
Not all businessmen support the UK’s membership of the EU. CIB has produced a video of an interview with one senior figure who doesn’t. Lord Kalms, the life president and former chairman of Dixons Retail spoke to CIB’s chairman Petrina […]
In the space of less than 24 hours, the Conservatives have suffered two major embarrassments, both related to the European Union. Firstly came the immigration statistics. The 2010 Conservative manifesto pledged to bring net immigration down to below 100,000 by […]
