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PHILIP HAMMOND warned yesterday that the renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership terms could be put on hold beyond next month’s Brussels summit to allow more pressing concerns to be addressed.
The Foreign Secretary said it would be “inappropriate and unwise” for Britain to insist on sealing a deal at the European Council summit on February 18-19, which will be held amid the continuing migration crisis.
Speaking to the House of Lords EU committee, Mr Hammond confirmed that the government wanted the renegotiation settled “well before” French and German elections in 2017.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR