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France pushes UK to stay and Germany to pay

November 21, 2014 by Chris Anyfantis Leave a Comment

Emmanuel Macron, France’s minister of Economy, visited London this week in an attempt to step up for his country’s future policy reforms. Among others, Macron announced that Britain must remain an EU member state and that Germany should invest in the EU. However, it was not mentioned anything about the fines that the European Commission […]

Filed Under: Economy, Eurozone, Policy, Politics, Regional Tagged With: David Cameron, Emmanuel Macron, European Commission, France, Francois Hollande, Germany, Michel Sapin, Stability and Growth Pact, UK exit

Cameron’s Conservatives and UKIP are exploiting and cultivating anti-EU immigration sentiment but Labour party isn’t?

November 19, 2014 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

Currently the significant success of the eurosceptic UKIP party in polarising the British voter in several social issues, like immigration, has set the agenda for other parties to follow. David Cameron and his conservative party has long seen that his electorate gets substantially motivated by anti-immigration campaigns. This is of course part of the general […]

Filed Under: Policy, Politics, Refugee Crisis, Regional Tagged With: Conservative Party, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, EU immigration, Labour Party, Nigel Farage, Rachel Reeves, UK exit, UK General Elections, UK Immigration, UKIP, Yvette Cooper

If on a summer’s night: is UK businesses’ “new deal” the only key to the “best of all worlds”?

September 3, 2014 by Carlo Motta Leave a Comment

If you are a loyal reader of the European Sting, or at least a well-informed European citizen, you will certainly know that surveys don’t really bring good news for the Union. Anytime a new survey about the public opinion around the bloc comes out, the European Parliament is shaking a bit. “People are not really interested…”, […]