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We must localise the EU and curb corporate power- but does that mean in or out?

June 7, 2016 by Editor

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The EU referendum debate is taking place between different wings of the corporate elite, dominated by assumptions in favour of big business, free trade and endless economic growth, write Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read & Thomas Wallgren. But to vote for a sustainable future we must adopt a very different, local…

#VoteNeither: How you can help BOTH sides to lose this pointless referendum…

June 3, 2016June 6, 2016 by Editor

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The upcoming European Union referendum gives us the choice of clinging on to an increasingly and inexorably pro-corporate EU, or leaving the EU altogether on UKIP's terms. In this article, Rupert Read argues that neither of these options are discernibly better than the other, and that given this deadlock, the…

Why does media coverage of the EU matter?

March 24, 2016 by Editor

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A conference organised by 'The UK in a Changing Europe'(ukandeu.ac.uk) on 8 February provided a rare occasion for leading journalists, broadcasters and academics to exchange experiences and views on how the EU is reported in the UK and the challenges or reporting EU news. In the first panel of the…

Reporting Europe: Is the UK different?

March 24, 2016 by Editor

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A conference organised by 'The UK in a Changing Europe' (ukandeu.ac.uk) on 8 February provided a rare occasion for leading journalists, broadcasters, and academics to exchange experiences and views on how the EU is reported in the UK and the challenges of reporting EU news. In the third panel of…

How good is the British media at reporting Europe?

March 24, 2016 by Editor

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A conference organised by "The UK in a Changing Europe" (ukandeu.ac.uk) on 8 February provided a rare occasion for leading journalists, broadcasters, and academics to exchange experiences and views on how the EU is reported in the UK and the challenges of reporting EU news. In the second panel, addressing…

The Challenge of reporting EU news

March 24, 2016 by Editor

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Mark Mardell’s keynote speech on UK and the EU

March 14, 2016 by Editor

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Mark Mardell was the keynote speaker at a conference organized by ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ (ukandeu.ac.uk), a project involving UEA's Professor Hussein Kassim, on 8 February provided a rare occasion for leading journalists, broadcasters and academics to exchange experiences and views on how the EU is reported in…

UEA’s Vice-Chancellor on the UK and the EU

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016 by Editor

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The University of East Anglia's Vice Chancellor, Professor David Richardson, sets out his views on the UK and the EU on Eastminster. We can all expect the next four months to be full of sound and fury as the media and politicians generate sound bites, column inches and a sea…

Introducing Cameron’s EU red card will have limited impact

February 26, 2016February 26, 2016 by Editor

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The UK government’s proposal for a "red card procedure" for national parliaments to stop EU policy proposals would have affected less than two percent of votes in the EU Council of Ministers -- and that's assuming governments lose the plot, argue Sara Hagemann, Chris Hanretty and Simon Hix. [caption id="attachment_2248"…

The EU Referendum on Eastminster

February 12, 2016May 23, 2016 by Editor

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The UK will hold a referendum on whether to leave the EU on 23 June. [caption id="attachment_2248" align="alignright" width="300"] David CameronSource: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7647/16685723418_5c81136bc2_b.jpg[/caption]On Eastminster you'll find a range of posts relating to the referendum and this page will be updated on a rolling basis, with postcasts, opinion and analysis. UEA's Professor…

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