Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 May 2013.
Contents
Summary
Conclusions and recommendations
1 Introduction
Our inquiry
Inquiry terms of reference, scope and timing
Government and Conservative Party EU policy
Government policy
Balance of Competences Review
Structure of Report
2 UK influence in the EU and the December 2011 European Council
UK influence in the EU
UK influence in the EU: the December 2011 European Council as case study
UK diplomacy
The significance of December 2011: differing interpretations
The impact of the December 2011 veto on UK influence in the EU
3 The Eurozone and the EU
Assumptions about Eurozone integration
Eurozone enlargement
Eurozone integration: a risk for the UK?
The Eurozone and the Single Market
The Eurozone and other EU policy areas
Government stance towards an integrating Eurozone
A case study: the Single Supervisory Mechanism
Eurozone integration and the TSCG: inside or outside the EU?
4 The Prime Minister's agenda: reform, renegotiation, referendum
EU reform
Pre-Bloomberg speech
Post-Bloomberg speech
"New settlement" for the UK?
EU responses
Questions: process and timings
Flexible integration: the EU's West Lothian question?
'In/out' referendum
Uncertainty impact?
What would 'out' mean?
5 The Single Market and the EU: Norwegian and Swiss options
'Two-tier' models
6 Conclusions: maintaining UK influence in the EU
Maintaining UK influence in the EU
Annexes
Annex 1: Selected developments in Government EU policy, 2010-2013
Annex 2: Selected scheduled events in the EU, 2013-2018
Annex 3: Flexible integration in and around the EU, 2013
Annex 4: Possible future steps in the EU: do they require EU Treaty amendment?
Annex 5: Abbreviations and glossary
Annex 6: Foreign Affairs Committee visit to Berlin, Oslo and Berne, October 2012
Annex 7: Foreign Affairs Committee visit to Brussels and Paris, November 2012
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Oral and Written Evidence
26 June 2012
10 July 2012
11 September 2012
6 February 2013
Written Evidence
