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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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A Dickensian idea for Europe
Posted on 02/11/2011 | No Comments“Annual income £20:Annual expenditure £19.19s 6d: result, happiness. Annual income £20; annual expenditure £20.0s 6d: result misery.” Mr Micawber in ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens Mike and Pete were brothers. They had the same work place and each earned £20,000 a year. Mike planned his... -
Good politics, now all Labour needs is a policy
Posted on 26/10/2011 | No CommentsBy Sir Julian Priestley Labour’s decision to put a three-line whip on the vote on an in/out referendum was a good decision. It moved the focus to the resurgence of Tory divisions on Europe. It seemed like statesmanship to be offering to dig the prime... -
Fixing the debt crisis, the Chicago way
Posted on 27/09/2011 | No CommentsIt has been alarming to watch the leadership of the eurozone limp through the debt crisis affecting some of the member states, apparently as though they have no idea of the scale of what they are facing. The piling-up of debt by countries far in... -
Debt is a two-edged sword
Posted on 05/09/2011 | 1 CommentA paper presented last week at a conference of the world’s central bankers looked at the levels of debt in different countries and its impact on economic growth. Debt, or to give it its other name, credit, is the lubricant of the economy. Borrowing enables... -
Too much red tape, say the police
Posted on 13/06/2011 | No CommentsDevotees of detective novels will be familiar with the police complaint about too much red tape hampering their ability to get the job done. Those forms you have to fill in when you beat a confession out of a suspect down at the station, or... -
Tony Blair: Europe needs a leader
Posted on 10/06/2011 | 2 CommentsThis website has long been advocating the view that the European Union needs effective and accountable leadership, most notably during the debates surrounding the European Convention in 2003 that led to the constitutional treaty (and subsequently the Lisbon treaty). See Europe needs an accountable president... -
Ireland: is there a way forward?
Posted on 03/06/2011 | 1 CommentBy Patrick Mc Nally It is now some months since we have had a change of government. Already the old regime has faded into the mists of history. The voters have decided and punished the outgoing government for their mismanagement of the economy and are... -
Can the British ever be European citizens?
Posted on 14/04/2011 | 2 CommentsEarlier in the year, I spoke at a Federal Trust conference on European citizenship and specifically the British perspective on the issue. The slides from the presentation I gave are here 110120 citizenship slides and there is a report on the whole event here Conference_Report_20th_Jan_2011.... -
Denis MacShane picks the wrong target on the European Parliament
Posted on 04/04/2011 | No CommentsA new pamphlet by Labour MP Denis MacShane, “Europe’s parliament: Reform or perish?”, published by the Centre for European Reform, worries about the decline of public interest in the European Parliament, and explores some ways in which it might be reinvigorated. For anyone who cares... -
Britain and the future of the eurozone
Posted on 28/03/2011 | No CommentsBy John Palmer There are two seemingly very different conclusions to be drawn from the latest European Union summit meetings designed to tackle the growing crisis within the eurozone. The first is that the eurozone has taken major steps towards an economic union not just...
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