Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. Next week the EU will continue discussing Banking Union – giving the European Central Bank the power […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. Conservative Party conferences are too often overshadowed by Europe. This has, in the recent past, led the […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. The Coalition has already done some good work on the EU, the ‘referendum lock’ and the recently […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. Following interventions by David Cameron and Liam Fox most Conservatives now think that EU renegotiation and an […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. Growing public frustration with the costs of EU membership is making the UK’s EU membership unsustainable and […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. UKIP have done well in the local elections, securing almost 13% of the vote, in the places where they stood, and […]
Christopher Howarth, is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. If you find it difficult to predict the twists and turns of the Coalition’s EU policy, spare a […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior political analyst at the think tank Open Europe (and former Conservative Party Adviser). The discussions at the EU summit will inevitably focus on Greece and the eurozone and so mercifully the UK will again largely be a spectator. However, EU leaders are also seeking to further advance the “fiscal compact”, […]
Christopher Howarth is a Researcher at the think tank Open Europe. It now seems likely that France and Germany will push for an EU Treaty change at this Friday’s EU Summit. This is likely to give the EU further oversight of eurozone states’ public spending. Although this oversight would not apply to the UK, we […]
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a Conservative Foreign Affairs Adviser and senior researcher to a Shadow Europe Minister. Follow Open Europe on Twitter. The last 40 years of British Isles political history could be characterised as the history of two […]