One after another, Britain’s Commonwealth partners declared that, by joining Europe, Britain will gravely strain their economic ties to the mother country and may finally sunder the enduring ...

Yet just as Britain had to examine its national interests in the 1950s and 1960s and decide if it was to remain linked to a relatively slow growing Commonwealth or dynamic European common market ...

The appointment of a new head of the Commonwealth Business Council never made the headlines, but with Britain's need for growth as the eurozone struggles it should have.

The daily Corriere della Sera called the idea a “European Commonwealth” and described it as “a new system of political, economic and military alliances - alternative to the European Union.” ...

On economic grounds, while Britain's trade relations were for a long time heavily weighted towards Commonwealth nations, the UK's entry into the European Union in the 1970s meant it dramatically ...