EU Reform Index: Evaluating 30 potential proposals for EU renegotiation

In its EU Reform Index, Open Europe catalogues the body of 30 potential reform proposals that the United Kingdom might wish to seek in the forthcoming EU negotiations.

It seeks to outline where there is divergence of interest in the UK and Europe, around which an EU reform package can be established.

It considers five criteria for judging EU reforms – achievability in Europe, whether treaty change is required, UK public priority, UK business priority and MPs’ priority – and suggests that David Cameron has a good chance of negotiating reforms including changes to EU migrants’ eligibility for in-work benefits, safeguards for non-Eurozone members of the single market and a ‘red card’ for national parliaments to block EU proposals.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Reforming the EU: UK plans, proposals and prospects http://www.europeansources.info/record/reforming-the-eu-uk-plans-proposals-and-prospects-commons-library-standard-note/

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: Cameron's EU reforms: You can't always get what you want http://www.europeansources.info/record/camerons-eu-reforms-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/

The Guardian, 19.05.15: Cameron to publish EU referendum bill one day after Queen's speech http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/19/cameron-to-publish-eu-referendum-bill-one-day-after-queens-speech

Blog: Open Europe, 19.05.15: Scoring the EU reform agenda http://openeurope.org.uk/blog/scoring-the-eu-reform-agenda/

EUObserver, 21.05.15: Cameron: Welfare reform to be 'absolute requirement' in EU deal https://euobserver.com/political/128789

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