A year before the next European parliamentary elections, 39% of the Dutch are in favour of leaving the EU, according to a new poll by Gallup.
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Obama officials say that the UK would probably be excluded from a trade agreement worth billions a year if it leaves the EU. (The US is now threatening Britain NOT to leave the EU? Why?)
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The euro lies at the root of Europe’s record unemployment rate and countries such as Spain and Greece should quit the common currency to return to economic health, said the head of Germany’s fledgling anti-euro party.
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Germany’s central bank Deutsche Bundesbank sharply criticized the European Central Bank for the ways it handles the eurozone rescue and still sees risks for Greece to exit the euro area.
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Declare victory and then leave. That seems to be Washington’s line in Afghanistan these days.Getting out, it seems, has become more important than fighting corruption.
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Sky News has just posted this major interview broadcast earlier today between Adam Boulton and outgoing US Ambassador to London, Louis Susman. Susman, a major donor to President Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign, makes clear that the Obama administration is firmly opposed to Britain leaving the European Union if a referendum is held in 2017:
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Italy plunged deeper into political chaos this weekend after Beppe Grillo, the quixotic former comedian who holds the balance of power in parliament, suggested that the country may have to abandon the euro and return to the lire.
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Under one plan being developed, every taxpayer or voter in Britain would be given shares in RBS that would be worth, according to one Treasury insider, between £300 and £400 at current prices.
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In a letter released on Thursday (31 January) responding to a question in the Dutch Parliament, Rutte and his finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said that his governing coalition had agreed that “it should be possible under mutual consideration to exit from the community arrangements (Schengen, eurozone, European Union).”
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Two of Britain’s biggest car makers, Ford and BMW, have warned that a UK exit from the European Union would be “devastating” for the UK economy, heaping pressure on the Prime Minister ahead of a critical speech due this week
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