Recent polling suggests Remainers who had accepted Brexit increasingly want to stay in EU. Strong arguments can help harden this stance.
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Liam Fox’s US fantasies unravel faced with facts of life
Trade secretary used to trumpet comprehensive deal with US. Now he’s focusing on just services. Does he have a clue about what that means?
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Brexiters are crazy to take lessons from Varoufakis
David Davis is latest hardliner to praise former Greek finance minister’s book. Doesn’t he know Varoufakis’ antics nearly destroyed Greece?
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Davis either content with chaos or utterly clueless
Brexit secretary’s fanciful claims that Article 50 deal can be ratified after March 2019 shows contempt for Parliament and risks havoc.
Wake Up Foundation Chairman Bill Emmott debated live on Twitter yesterday with Wake Up Europe! activists across the world. We were delighted by how many of you joined the discussion on Europe’s Summer of Elections. With votes coming up in France, Germany, Italy, Austria and the UK the chat was lively and evolved into wider issues […]
Put simply, President Macron will need to make France an easier, more dynamic place in which to create and expand businesses, so as to increase employment and wages, while at the same time providing an increased sense of security and equal participation to citizens of all ages. Fortunately, he considers Europe as France’s friend, not […]
WUF invites you to debate Europe’s summer of elections with our Chairman Bill Emmott and Wake Up Europe! activists across the continent. Bill will be discussing Europe’s summer of elections in a Twitter live Q&A on Wednesday 31 May from 13:00-13:30BST. Join the conversation by using the hashtag #wakeupeurope, you can also submit questions for Bill in […]
Europe needs your help. In all its nations, a battle between hope and anger is under way, as France’s election has shown. This summer we will be relaunching Wake Up Europe with a new film and to campaign for the reforms needed to restore Europe’s core values. Your ideas, your energy and your support will […]
It counts as a huge relief to anyone who believes in liberty, the open society and European collaboration. But the election of Emmanuel Macron as France’s president, welcome as it is, does not mean that the moment of “peak populism” has passed in either Europe or America. The despair and disillusion that persuaded fully 35% […]
In the coming weeks, citizens across Europe will go to the polls in some of the most significant elections for generations. In France, the far-right Front National has once again made it to the second round run-off of the Presidential elections. Much of their support comes from young people, making the prospect of a Le Pen […]
Next Sunday evening the world will learn which of Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen will be France’s new president.
Do you feel nervous about May 7th in France or hopeful? The result of the first round on April 23rd was a welcome boost for everyone who favours openness and the preservation of Europe’s core values. But it would be premature to assume that a victory for Emmanuel Macron in the second round is a foregone conclusion.
We have grown used to political earthquakes, as once inconceivable electoral outcomes turn into reality. Yet this year’s greatest political shock could turn out to be a positive one. It is time to think seriously about the possibility that Angela Merkel may be defeated in September and be replaced as Germany’s chancellor by Martin Schulz.
Well, at least the uncertainty is over. Some commentators had labeled the British government’s six months of dithering about its plans for Brexit as “constructive ambiguity”, a phrase used by Henry Kissinger 40 years ago. Muddle was the better term, but now there is clarity: Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will be leaving the EU single market and the EU customs union.
General Charles de Gaulle would be proud. For the future of Europe will be shaped in this new year not in Germany, not in Italy, not in troublesome Russia, not in Brexiting Britain, but in France. Others will play a role, could even produce shocks. But France will have the most decisive influence.
The long, slow fuse on Italy’s time-bomb has been lit. The crushing defeat of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform proposals in the national referendum on 4th December has left the whole country—indeed the whole of Europe—wondering whether the anti-euro Five Star Movement might soon come to national power.
Pro-Europeans may have been sad to lose Matteo Renzi, after the Italian prime minister’s crushing defeat in his constitutional referendum, but were relieved that Austrians rejected the far-right candidate in their re-run presidential election.
A time-bomb is ticking away in the heart of Europe, carrying a label marked ‘Made in Italy’. It could yet be defused. But if it goes off, it would make Brexit look like a lot of fuss about nothing.
After all the talk over the past week that Britain has a great opportunity to get close to, and do deals with, a man who stands against free trade and for building walls, Theresa May’s speech tonight at the Lord Mayor’s banquet is to be applauded.
Wake Up! Europe is now on its own. The election of Donald Trump to the White House means that the European Union must now shed all illusions. It will stand, or fall, on the basis of its own efforts, own resources, own political will.
If she wants it to be smooth for business as well as government, let us hope she paid close attention to a paper presented earlier this week to her cabinet’s Brexit committee that, according to the Guardian, outlined the distinctly un-smooth consequences if Britain decides to leave the EU’s customs union. One of the main arguments […]
Dear Mr Tusk In our drama-documentary The Great European Disaster Movie, we warned that Europe was sleep-walking towards disaster. We take no pleasure at all in pointing out that much of what we foretold in the film is now coming true. The decision of the UK to leave the EU is not a scene from our […]
The great European disaster is unfolding. We take no pleasure in seeing the nightmarish vision portrayed as fiction in The Great European Disaster Movie becoming fact. The message of that film and of our Wake Up Europe campaign is, however, more important than ever: that we must wake up all European citizens to fight to […]
The message of that film and of our Wake Up Europe campaign is, however, more important than ever: that we must wake up all European citizens to fight to defend the values that the European Union stands for – peace, openness, tolerance, equal human rights, solidarity. Those values are in danger. For the European Union […]