The far right has moved on from Orbán
It now sees its future inside the EU
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Find here the New Statesman’s collection of articles offering deep insights into the European Union, including its policies, institutions, member states, and critical issues shaping the future of this influential supranational organization.
Labour picks a new fight over the EU
The government is leaning into a row it previously shied away from
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The United States is no friend of Europe
After the Iran war, the Atlantic relationship can never be the same
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The EU won’t save Rachel Reeves
Domestic politics cannot dictate our post-Brexit settlement
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Inside the Labour factions pressuring Starmer to rejoin Europe
Caught between Donald Trump and his own party, the Prime Minister faces a moment of truth
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Europe must break from America
Warnings about the end of the postwar world are common sense, not alarmism
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Will Keir Starmer dare to unpick Brexit?
There is a route to greater economic prosperity alongside the EU
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A customs union won’t fix Labour’s growth woes
Brexit has been bad for our economy. But it’s become an excuse not to pursue growth
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Europe’s victim complex
Worry about the supposed “scramble for Europe” shows how far-right tropes are taking over European foreign policy discourse
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Andy Burnham: I want to rejoin the EU
The Manchester mayor made some fairly concrete proposals for what he would do as prime minister
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Nick Thomas-Symonds: Labour’s Brexit repair man
The EU relations minister on Keir Starmer’s determination to cling on, and the UK’s changing relationship to Europe
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Through the unknown gate
How Britain’s long European trauma was forged in wartime Algeria.
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Would embracing Rejoin save Labour?
London luvvies look away. Britain won’t be returning to the EU any time soon.
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What John Swinney gets right about Scottish independence
Like Sinn Fein in Ireland, the SNP are pushing nationalism down the agenda.
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Why is Boris Johnson so scared of Emmanuel Macron?
Brexiteers cannot get a lurid fantasy version of the French president out of their heads.
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Will we ever be free of Brexit?
Fifty years after the first referendum, our relationship with Europe has twisted as much as it has changed.
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Europe’s feeble shift on Gaza
A lack of consensus on Israel has paralysed the EU.
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Can Labour take the credit for falling energy bills?
The EU can’t save us from high energy costs.
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The brain behind Labour’s EU deal
With his talk of “ruthless pragmatism”, is Nick Thomas-Symonds the heir to Harold Wilson?
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Why Kemi Badenoch’s Brexit attacks won’t work
The Conservatives are still haunted by their past failures on Europe.
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