Concerns about the EU’s cherished principle of free movement of people is not only confined to the UK. Non-EU Switzerland voted to restrict migration from the EU in a referendum in 2014. The EU was not happy with the result […]
The article below originally appeared on the Swissinfo website. Switzerland’s referendum decision to limit EU migration is causing some friction. Our Chairman heard a report on BBC Radio 4 that the EU had withdrawn access to the Erasmus programme of […]
For many years now, Swiss membership of the EU has seemed about as likely as Ken Clarke campaigning for Brexit. Yesterday (16th June), the country followed Iceland in formally withdrawing its membership application. The bilateral treaties which govern Switzerland’s relationship […]
Compared with the high drama of last year when Yannis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the President of the Euro group, came close to a punch-up at a Eurozone ministers’ meeting in the run-up to a deal […]
A couple of years ago, the answer to this question would have been an unequivocal “no”. Austrian opposition, along with a commitment by the French government to offer its citizens a referendum on the subject virtually ensured that the stalled […]
In the aftermath of the Brussels bombings, a few articles have appeared highlighting the dysfunctionality of Belgium as a country. John Lichfield, in the Independent, says that “The atrocities committed by ISIS have exposed Belgium’s failings as a society” while […]
