In a speech on Friday morning to the LSE, the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, set out his case for why Britain’s referendum debate should not overlook the wider European and global challenges facing both the EU and the UK. As Tim Oliver explains, President Schulz’s argument that global events and trends cannot be crowded out by a narrower national debate is one we will hear increasingly as the referendum campaign gets fully underway. The Brexit vote blog has been setting out views from the European Parliament, which can be found here and here.
To read the complete piece follow this link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexitvote/2016/02/09/the-european-parliament-and-the-uks-renegotiation-iii-president-schulz/#comment-658
