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Latest Articles in 'Europe'
- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
- If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu - 22/02/2012By Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The...
- Political language - 17/02/2012There is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare...
Latest Blog Entries
- The end of the coalition - 14/05/2012The results of the voting that took place on 3 May surely spell the beginning of the end for Britain’s coalition government. (Read about the election results here.) I am...
- The case against Rupert Murdoch - 02/05/2012Passing judgement on Rupert Murdoch appears to be today’s fashion, and this blog is not one to shirk a challenge. His dislike of the EU is well-known, as are the...
- The House of Lords is a mess - 01/05/2012The House of Lords is a mess. It brings together in one place party political nominees (often former MPs), acknowledged experts on particular issues, descendants of drinking buddies of long-deceased...
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Political language
Posted on 17/02/2012 | No CommentsThere is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare that with the 6 per cent of Finns who speak Swedish rather than Finnish –... -
Whatever it takes?
Posted on 15/02/2012 | No CommentsGermany, we were told, would do whatever it takes to save the euro. Such a clear, unequivocal commitment should serve to reassure the markets and convince the public that the European Union would be put back on the right road. However, such a commitment cannot... -
The agony of Greece
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 1 CommentThe word agony comes from the Greek agōnia, meaning struggle, and struggle there certainly is. Can the Greek government implement the changes deemed necessary by the other EU governments in order for them to continue lending money to keep the Greek state afloat? Can the... -
The national interest in Syria
Posted on 11/02/2012 | 1 CommentForeign secretary William Hague has been outspoken in his criticism of Russia and China for their position on the conflict in Syria. Those two permanent members of the UN Security Council vetoed a resolution that would have increased the pressure on the Syrian regime; instead,... -
The lady in the lake
Posted on 03/02/2012 | No CommentsTaking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s iconic, hardbitten private detective. But amidst the glitz of Hollywood and... -
Incident on the A598
Posted on 25/01/2012 | No CommentsThis is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy one morning, from the park where we had been playing to the shops to get... -
The Republican opponents of Barack Obama
Posted on 13/01/2012 | No CommentsThe presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as the Democrat nominee.) Although Federal Union is a British organisation, it is firmly of the... -
States or citizens – the flag reveals all
Posted on 29/12/2011 | No CommentsI wrote on this blog recently of the United Nations as having the weakness that it represents only states and not peoples. Here is an example of the consequences of that weakness. The picture above right shows the UN flag outside the United Nations headquarters... -
Three threats to the euro still remain
Posted on 15/12/2011 | 1 CommentThe European Council meeting a week ago was convened with the aim of saving the euro. Agreement was reached at the meeting about a way forward for the EU, even if the UK (and perhaps some others) will not travel with the rest. But despite... -
What has David Cameron achieved at the summit?
Posted on 09/12/2011 | 3 CommentsThe fallout from last night’s European Council summit in Brussels is still falling out, but I think it is possible now to identify the main lines of what was and was not achieved. The news reports portray the outcome as Britain versus the rest of...
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