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Former Italian PM: Build a "Two-Speed" EU
May 15, 2015
Arguing that the exit of the U.K. from the EU would signal the "death throes" of the project, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta writes that the EU should allow the U.K. and other non-eurozone countries to form an EU "slow track" that is not committed to political integration.
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EU Proposes Plan to Resettle Migrants
May 15, 2015
In response to the recent capsizing of boats carrying migrants across the Mediterranean Sea, the European Commission has proposed a quota system, which faces opposition in the U.K., through which migrants reaching Southern European countries will be resettled in other EU member states.
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EU Warns U.K. over Budget Deficit
May 15, 2015
The European Commission has announced that the U.K. will remain under the oversight of the EU's Excessive Deficit Procedure for failure of the country to reduce its deficit to levels mandated under EU law.
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Britain Faces Complications in Negotiating EU Reform
May 13, 2015
An article in The New York Times details the complications British Prime Minister David Cameron will likely face in renegotiating the U.K.'s relationship with the EU, including the difficulty of winning reform in the bloc in the time frame prior to the country's pledged referendum.
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U.K. Seeks Broad Immigration Changes from EU
May 13, 2015
The Daily Mail reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron is pursuing extensive reforms of his country's ties with the EU, seeking limits to benefits for new EU migrants, a right of deportation of migrants who do not find work, and an opt-out from the EU treaty provision on "ever closer union."
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