Business for New Europe

Putting Britain at the centre of an open and competitive Europe

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

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      • - Malcolm Aish
      • - Patrick O’Brien
      • - Liam Murphy
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      • - Lucy Thomas
      • - Roland Rudd
      • - Phillip Souta
      • - Sir Nigel Sheinwald
      • - Sir Andrew Cahn
      • - Dr Daniel Furby
      • - Laura Batchelor
      • - Malcolm Sweeting
      • - Morris Schonberg
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      • - Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
      • - Lady Barbara Thomas Judge
      • - Sir Philip Hampton
      • - Chris Gibson-Smith
      • - Guy Dawson
      • - Richard Cousins
      • - Sir Roger Carr
      • - Lord Brittan of Spennithorne
      • - Phillip Souta
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  • Issues
    • - Climate Change
    • - External Relations
    • - SMEs
    • - Global Poverty
    • - Energy
    • - Open Markets
    • - Regulation
  • Events
    • - 1 JULY LAUNCH - A Europe that works: A Business Manifesto for Reform
  • Past Events
    • - The Future of the EU
    • - Priorities for Europe’s Digital Agenda
    • - Britain and the Future of Europe - Participation, Disengagement or Drift?
    • - Forty Years of the UK in the EU - Looking Back, Looking Forward
    • - The prospects for European Banking Union
    • - APPG EU | 2013 - A Decisive Year for Britain and the EU?
    • - Can Italy bridge the gap between North and South Europe?
    • - TEXT OF SPEECH - Europe, Britain and Business, Beyond the Crisis - The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair
    • - Europe, Britain and Business - Beyond the Crisis. A Speech by The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair
    • - A Speech on Britain and Europe by the Rt. Hon. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
    • - Conservative Party Conference Fringe Event: Europe: From crisis to growth
    • - Conservative Party Conference Fringe Event: We need to talk about Brussels
    • - Labour Party Conference Fringe Event: We need to talk about Brussels
    • - Labour Party Conference Fringe Event: Europe: From crisis to growth
    • - Liberal Democratic Party Conference Fringe Event: Europe: From crisis to growth
    • - Liberal Democrat Party Conference Fringe: We need to talk about Brussels
    • - Has the time come for an EU-US comprehensive trade agreement?
    • - EIOPA and the Future of Insurance Supervision in Europe
    • - British Brussels Network Event with Sir Jon Cunliffe and Baroness Ashton in the European Parliament
    • - An Alliance for Growth: Anglo-Dutch cooperation in a changing Europe
    • - British representation in the EU Institutions – Rebuilding our presence in Brussels
    • - EU Careers Month
    • - A discussion on ESMA and the financial markets in Europe and the UK
    • - Reforming UCITS – Engaging with the UK
    • - European Growth and Competitiveness – Getting it, keeping it
    • - Conservative Party Conference Fringe Debate: Will Brussels run British foreign policy?
    • - Conservative Party Conference Fringe Event: Will the euro crisis split the EU?
    • - Conservative Fringe: Affording pensions and healthcare: Can Europe defuse the demographic time-bomb?
    • - Labour Party Conference Fringe Event: Will the euro crisis split the EU?
    • - Labour Party Conference: Is the rise of anti-immigration parties inevitable in an open Europe?
    • - Labour Party Conference Fringe Event: Europe in Crisis - Will an ageing population bankrupt the EU?
    • - Liberal Democrat Party Conference Fringe Event: Will the EU’s ageing population bankrupt Europe?
    • - Liberal Democrat Party Conference Fringe Event: Will the euro crisis split the EU?
    • - Germany and the Quest for EU Stability - coming to terms with the new realities
    • - The European Banking Authority: Trojan Horse or White Knight?
    • - British Brussels Network
    • - The Prospects for Further European Defence Cooperation
    • - Publication Launch with the Rt Hon David Lidington MP “Competitiveness - What the EU needs to do”
    • - EU Trio of Presidencies - Passing the baton
    • - Economic Ideas Forum
    • - The future of the euro zone after the economic crisis
    • - The EU and global economic development
    • - Economic Governance Briefing at Europe House
    • - Building a Digital Single Market: delivering benefits of the digital economy to Europe’s citizens
    • - Building a Digital Single Market: delivering benefits of the digital economy to Europe’s citizens
    • - How can the UK lead the completion of the EU’s Single Market?
    • - How can the UK lead the completion of the EU’s Single Market?
    • - 2011, Challenges for the EU - A keynote speech by Herman Van Rompuy
    • - Climate Diplomacy: How should the EU punch its weight?
    • - Towards a G2 world? Strategies for EU influence in global reform
    • - Briefing on the Single Market Act
    • - Sustaining the recovery – can European Economic Governance meet the challenge?
    • - Towards a G2 world? Strategies for EU influence in global reform
    • - Conservative Party Fringe: BNE and ResPublica roundtable: “Europe: Changing the terms of the debate”
    • - Conservative Party Fringe: BNE and CER roundtable: “Europe’s Crisis: What role for Britain?”
    • - Conservative Party Fringe: CER, BNE, Open Europe Debate - Is the Channel wider than the Atlantic?
    • - A lecture on the EU budget by European Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski
    • - Labour: BNE / IPPR event: “What next for the progressive left at home, in Europe and globally”
    • - Labour Party Conference: BNE and CER roundtable: “Europe’s Crisis: What role for Britain?”
    • - Liberal Democrat Party Conference: BNE and CER roundtable: “Europe’s Crisis: What role for Britain?”
    • - Britain, Europe and a changing global order:  What do we want and how do we achieve it?
    • - Credit Rating Agencies – heroes or villains?
    • - Keeping the motor running – economic balance and competitiveness in Germany and the EU
    • - A keynote speech by Joaquín Almunia - Reconciling competition and industrial policy in the EU
    • - Keynote speech by Cathy Ashton on Foreign Affairs and Business
    • - EU / US financial regulation: the dangers of trans-Atlantic divergence?
    • - Europe: A priority for the next government?
    • - Friend or Foe: Is the EU good for Business?
  • Thought Leadership Publications
    • - Migration – Making it Work
    • - An Essential Guide: Britain and the European Union
    • - Party Conferences 2012
    • - Position Paper on European Banking Union
    • - BNE Review - August 2012
    • - BNE Party Conference Programme 2012
    • - BNE’s Written Evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee
    • - BNE Review - July 2012
    • - Global Trade: The fall of Doha and the rise of bilateral agreements
    • - BNE Review - June 2012
    • - Trading with the New India, Jo Johnson MP
    • - BNE- April 2012
    • - In Depth: Scottish Independence and EU Accession
    • - The economic case for language learning and the role of employer engagement
    • - BNE Review - January 2012
    • - BNE Review - December 2011
    • - Will the Euro Crisis Split the EU? - Contributions from the 2011 Party Conference Season
    • - Full Conference Programme for 26 Oct -  European Growth and Competitiveness
    • - BNE Summary of Activities 2010 - 2011
    • - Rethinking the EU Budget: An Alternative Financial Perspective - 2014-2020
    • - BNE Review - October 2011
    • - BNE Review - August 2011
    • - BNE Party Conferences Programme 2011
    • - Policy Statement on Economic Governance
    • - Competitiveness - What the EU needs to do
    • - BNE Review - June 2011
    • - Economic Ideas Forum
    • - BNE Review - May 2011
    • - BNE Summary of Activities in 2010
    • - The Case for a UK Sovereignty Bill - Options and Analysis
    • - BNE Party Conference Programme
    • - BNE Business Manifesto
    • - Turkey in Europe: The economic case for Turkish membership of the European Union
    • - Obama and Europe: Building Closer Transatlantic Economic Relations
    • - A Climate Mission for Europe: Leadership and Opportunity
    • - The Emerged market: Business and the enlargement of the European Union
    • - Executive Summary and Principles on Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs)
    • - Full Report on Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs)
    • - EU-Russia Relations (Policy Paper)
    • - A Budget for Business:  the corporate community’s recipe for a new EU funding regime
    • - We are all Europeans now
    • - A Europe Roadmap from business for the Prime Minister
    • - Why treaty change matters for business and for Britain (Policy Brief)
    • - European Union Jack: the UK’s leadership in the EU
    • - Berlin Declaration for Business
    • - A Europe we can do business wtith, 2nd Edition (BNE Pamphlet)
    • - Europe means Business
    • - A Europe we can do business wtith (BNE Pamphlet)
    • - The Case for Free Movement in Europe
    • - The Changing Character of Brussels: Charting the UK’s Influence
  • Research Publications
    • - 81% of UK business leaders want Europe to take a greater role in tackling climate change’
    • - An Indispensable Relationship: Economic Linkages between the UK and the rest of the European Union
    • - British Public supports European Cooperation on Credit Crunch
    • - British Business supports past and future enlargement
    • - Floodgates or turnstiles? Post-EU enlargement migration flows to (and from) the UK
    • - Economic Nationalism
    • - Business Leaders Suport EU Treaty (PART 2)
    • - Business Leaders Suport EU Treaty (PART 1)
    • - Poll of business leaders opinion about the European Single Market
    • - Poll of business leaders opinion about the EU
  • BNE Review
  • Videos
    • - BBC Radio 4 Today - EU MFF Budget
    • - BBC Radio 4 World at One - EU Budget
    • - BNE Director on Newsnight - 26/10/2012 EU Budget
    • - BNE Director on BBC 5 Live - October 2012 EU Summit
    • - BNE Chairman Roland Rudd on BBC’s Newsnight: Future of the Eurozone
    • - BNE Chairman Roland Rudd on BBC’s Daily Politics: Eurozone Break-up with Lord Wolfson
    • - Nick Clegg at BNE Breakfast
    • - Roland Rudd at Policy Exchange ‘Fight Club’ Debate
    • - Roland Rudd on the Climate Change Act
    • - Roland Rudd on the G20
  • Press Releases
    • - Press Release - UK residence rules for migrants are in line with EU law says business group
    • - Press Release–Focus on migrant rules welcome, but measures should go further
    • - Press Release - Britain’s economy could be damaged by In-Out referendum
    • - Press Release - The UK can work with EU banking proposals
    • - Press Release - Europe and America should ditch Doha, focus on transatlantic trade deal
    • - Press Release - MPs call to push EU-USA trade deal and strengthen WTO
    • - Press Release - Merkel and Hollande need to form left-right grand coalition to save eurozone
    • - Press Release - Austerity without reform is pushing Europe to the limits
    • - Scottish Membership of the EU would NOT be automatic
    • - Press Release – EU must give Greece light at the end of the tunnel
    • - Press Release – Captains of Industry say leaving the EU would damage British business
    • - Press Release – The UK should get back in the room and push reform
    • - Press Release – It is in UK’s interest for fiscal pact to be part of EU Treaty
    • - Press Release - The Way Forward
    • - EU Summit Outcome - Britain isolated, eurozone under threat
    • - Press Release – The eurozone needs automatic sanctions
    • - Press Release – European Commission is right to back eurobonds
    • - Press Release – EU referendum vote is a distraction
    • - Press Release - Cut the EU budget to boost the EU’s credibility
    • - Press Release – ‘Big Bang’ Solution Needed to Allow Greece to Default Within Euro
    • - BNE Chairman Roland Rudd opens Westminster conference on UK’s relationship with EU
    • - Press Release – EU Financial Transaction Tax is a red herring
    • - Business leaders support Brits in Brussels
    • - 74% of business Leaders Show Support for the UK’s membership of the EU
    • - 74% of business Leaders Show Support for the UK’s membership of the EU
    • - BNE launches business manifesto on the UK and the EU
    • - Senior business leaders to meet with Michel Barnier
    • - 81% of UK business leaders want Europe to take a greater role in tackling climate change
    • - Leaders from 20 Businesses say Yes to 20-20-20
    • - British Business Positive about Enlargement
    • - BNE Position Statement on the G20 London Summit
    • - BNE’s Reaction to PM Gordon Brown’s Speech to the European Parliament
    • - BNE unveils new research into the UK’s economic relationship with the rest of Europe
    • - Poll shows British business impressed with euro
    • - BNE responds to European Parliament vote on Working Time Directive
    • - British Public supports European Cooperation on Credit Crunch
    • - BNE responds to Ireland No Vote on Lisbon Treaty
    • - British Business supports past and future enlargement
    • - Business applauds EU Migration
    • - The EU Budget requires reform, say business leaders
    • - Business Leaders call for pro-Europe, pro-reform approach
    • - Court verdict highlights need for European Budget Reform
    • - EU Reforming Treaty is a Success for Business and Britain
    • - British Business supports EU Amending Treaty
    • - UK’s contribution to the EU budget
    • - European Union Jack Report Published
    • - UK Business Leaders Celebrate EU Anniversary
    • - EU: A necessity for the People of Europe
    • - Berlin Declaration for Business
    • - BNE Praises “Historic” Deal on Climate Change
    • - Single Market: Multiple Achievements
    • - In praise of the Single Market: MORI Captains of Industry Poll
    • - Business leaders say “Yes” to Europe
    • - Services directive will make real difference to business
    • - Accession of Bulgaria and Romania
    • - Open Letter: Letter from Romanians and Bulgarians living and working in the UK
    • - UK’s Influence in Brussels is sprouting
    • - Open Letter: Business leaders call for open market approach towards Romania and Bulgaria
    • - Eastern European workers benefit the UK
    • - EU must stick to Enlargement course
    • - BNE calls for delivery ahead of institutional reform
    • - Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU
    • - Appointment of new Europe Minister
    • - Business for New Europe Launches: Poll shows strong support for economic reform
  • In The Media
    • - BNE Event on BBC – EU ‘needs new fundamental law’ - MEP Verhofstadt
    • - BNE in the Telegraph –  British business leaders: Sceptics putting politics before economics
    • - BNE in the Times – No 10 fears UKIP may win Euro election
    • - BNE in City AM – EU row deepens as Tory disorder sees Ukip rising
    • - BNE in the Daily Mail - Every family would be up £3,500 worse off if Britain left the EU
    • - BBC: Eurosceptic MPs attacked by business leaders
    • - The Telegraph: Economic case to stay in EU is overwhelming – say business leaders
    • - The Independent: British business – We need to stay in the EU or risk losing up to £92bn a year
    • - Letter from business leaders in the Independent – The economic case to stay in EU is overwhelming
    • - BNE in the FT - Business must make case for Europe, Sir Roger Carr
    • - BNE in the Guardian – Restrict EU immigrants’ access to benefits, says pro-Europe group
    • - BNE in City AM – Business chiefs: UK gains from migrants
    • - BNE Director in European Voice – We must address political debate on immigration
    • - BNE Chairman in City A.M. – Engage with Europe
    • - Roland Rudd – BNE Chairman – stresses the need for multilateral EU reform in The Daily Telegraph
    • - BNE in The London Evening Standard – French ski rules are protectionist
    • - BNE Director on Sky’s Jeff Randall Live
    • - BNE in City AM - Even I, as a pro-European, am against an EU cap on bankers’ bonuses
    • - BNE in The Independent - EU referendum: A rabbit from a hat… or is it just a dead duck?
    • - BNE in Reuters - Business warns Cameron’s EU gamble could strangle economy
    • - BNE in City AM - Would leaving the European Union be a positive move for businesses in Britain?
    • - BNE on BBC News website - Business leaders urge Cameron not to ‘risk’ EU membership
    • - The Telegraph - Why it’s right to stay in the EU
    • - BNE in The Telegraph - Business leaders’ EU warning to David Cameron
    • - Financial Times - Business leaders warn Cameron on EU terms
    • - Letter in the Financial Times - Britain needs to lead in a strong, reformed EU
    • - BNE Chairman in Observer: No power, no influence and we would still have to pay the bill
    • - Scotsman - No ‘fast-tracked’ application for EU membership after independence, warns think tank
    • - BNE Chairman in the Times: Britain’s future as an EU member
    • - BNE in New York Times: U.K. Backers of Europe Want Business to Speak Up
    • - BNE in Evening Standard - Tony Blair: Britain cannot ‘fall away’ from European union
    • - BNE on BBC News website - Euroscepticism like a virus, warns Blair
    • - Daily Mail - Blair says being Eurosceptic is like a virus and the Tories have ‘got it really bad’
    • - Independent - Withdrawal from Europe would be ‘monumental error’, says Tony Blair
    • - The Telegraph - Tony Blair: David Cameron’s position on Europe risks ‘monumental error’
    • - Chicago Tribune - UK’s Blair says EU exit would be “monumental error”
    • - The Guardian - Tony Blair’s stark warning if Britain ‘falls away’ to EU margins
    • - The New York Times - Blair Urges Britain to Retain Place in European Union
    • - The Times - Tony Blair argues against ‘edging towards exit’
    • - BNE Chairman in the Telegraph - Britain needs the EU
    • - BNE in The Independent - Blair: ‘Britain must stay in EU’
    • - BNE in The Observer - Tony Blair’s passionate plea: we must stay at heart of EU or face disaster
    • - BNE Director in the New York Times - Business Sees Risk of British Exit From EU
    • - BNE Chairman in the FT - Focus on banking union not a British veto
    • - BNE Chairman in the Evening Standard - The Justice and Home Affairs opt-out
    • - BNE Chairman Roland Rudd on BBC’s Newsnight - Future of the Eurozone
    • - Sunday Express - Scotland’s EU stalemate could spell the end of Salmond’s master plan
    • - The Wall Street Journal - Europe Must Complete its Single Market
    • - BNE Chairman in the Telegraph - Britain can still profit from global trade while remaining in the EU
    • - BNE Chairman in City A.M. - Why Britain must not veto banking union for Europe
    • - Financial Times - No escape from the Europe debate
    • - Financial Times - UK business groups hedge their bets
    • - BNE Chairman in The Times - Does Britain need a referendum on Europe?
    • - The Herald Scotland - Claims SNP case on Scots EU status destroyed
    • - The Scotsman - Scottish independence, SNP could lose in referendum vote, minister concedes
    • - The Times - Doubts over Scots’ EU accession route
    • - Daily Express - EU costs ‘will soar if SNP wins independence campaign’
    • - BNE Scotland Paper in the Perthshire Advertiser, Kilmarnock Standard and Scottish Press and Journal
    • - BNE Director Phillip Souta in City A.M. on the Greek bailout
    • - BNE Deputy Director in Public Service Europe: Poll shows British business supports UK in EU
    • - BNE Chairman in The Times - Britain’s lack of foreign language speakers is costing the economy
    • - BNE Chairman in the Economist Debates: The UK and the EU
    • - BNE in Die Welt - “Nicht ohne die Briten - Not without the Brits”
    • - BNE in the Daily Mail - “3m jobs at risk if Britain does not stay at the heart of Europe”
    • - BNE in the Daily Telegraph - “Staying outside EU risks millions of jobs, warn 20 UK businessmen”
    • - BNE Letter in the Daily Telegraph - “It is vital that the Government remains at the heart of Europe”
    • - BNE Chairman in the Times - “What’s it like out in the cold? Just ask Norway.”
    • - BNE Chairman in City A.M. - “London needs EU strategy that does not lead to it being sidelined”
    • - BNE in The Independent - “Coalition partners put a brave face on their battered relationship”
    • - Roland Rudd in The Independent - “UK still has a role in the EU, says Angela Merkel”
    • - BNE in the Daily Telegraph - “Nick Clegg says UK will face ‘intemperate’ Europe with calm”
    • - BNE in the Daily Mail - ‘We need to re-engage with Europe,’ declares Clegg ahead of PMQs in Commons”
    • - BNE on BBC News - “We will re-engage with Europe, says deputy PM Clegg”
    • - BNE in the Press Association - “Clegg: We must re-engage with EU”
    • - Phillip Souta in Le Figaro - “The City is concerned”
    • - BNE in The Independent - “City warns Cameron veto may come back to haunt it”
    • - Phillip Souta in Financial Times - “Business worries at lack of resolution”
    • - Roland Rudd on BBC Radio 4 - “Is the EU Undemocratic?”
    • - 3 November - Letter in The Times
    • - Letter in The Evening Standard - Roland Rudd on why Parliament rightly voted against EU referendum
    • - Letter in The Telegraph - BNE Chairman, Roland Rudd, on why an EU referendum would be wrong
    • - BNE Director Letter to City A.M. calling for 10 per cent cut in EU budget
    • - BNE Director quoted in CNBC article - Can the UK Stay Clear of the Euro Zone’s Problems?
    • - Roland Rudd on Bloomberg TV
    • - Rapid Response in City A.M. - ‘Save the Euro’
    • - Comment in the Independent - The high price of playing politics with stability
    • - Letter in the Times - UK must lead the debate in Europe
    • - Letter in the Daily Telegraph - Competitiveness
    • - Letter in The Telegraph - Libya: enter the EU
    • - City A.M. - New CBI head backs UK membership of EU
    • - The Sunday Times - Europe or Bust
    • - Daily Telegraph - Britain must learn to talk the language of business
    • - Joint letter in the Telegraph and le Figaro - Anglo-French defence cooperation
    • - Letter in the Times - Explain the benefits of Europe Mr Cameron
    • - Letter in the Daily Telegraph - Cash for scrutiny
    • - EU finance reform (Letter in The Times)
    • - Europe has been damaged by internal wrangling
    • - Tory Euroscepticism is being sidelined
    • - Europe’s future in the balance as eurozone faces its toughest test
    • - UK needs a government working strongly in the EU mainstream (Letter in the Financial Times)