JEF + Poland Where JEF = Nordics + Baltics + UK + NL One of the stumbling blocks for a deeper EU integration on defence is that some of the European countries most serious about defence aren't in the… (View Post)

If the EU decided to organise it's defence on a Eurozone-style basis, where willing countries pooled their resources and policy without waiting for every country to join in, I think it could create s… (View Post)

Arguably one of the reasons for the UK to be part of the EU is that it's easier to prevent the French from using the EU to damage the UK if the UK is also a member with a vote. It's a pretty negative… (View Post)

If it's not a UK scheme, administered in Westminster, and so just involves handing money over to Holyrood, with no guarantee the money will be spent on the fishing industry, then it makes absolute se… (View Post)

You're making the mistake of thinking about this in narrowly legalistic terms. The precedent set is that there is a democratic outrage - not swearing in an elected member - and there is very little p… (View Post)