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Latest Articles in 'World'
- The next head of the World Bank - 05/03/2012The World Bank needs a new manager. Robert Zoellick is leaving, so the search is on for a replacement. Tradition has it that the role is always filled by an...
- States or citizens – the flag reveals all - 29/12/2011I 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...
- Is the time right for a new world order? - 19/12/2011The answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more...
Latest Blog Entries
- 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...
- Shackled to a corpse - 10/04/2012A familiar argument from the anti-Europeans is that Europe is the wrong choice, that the rest of the world is a better economic bet from Britain than the EU. For...
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Is the time right for a new world order?
Posted on 19/12/2011 | No CommentsThe answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more from me than that. I am here as chair of Federal Union which was founded... -
Introducing the World Federalist Movement (26 September 2011)
Posted on 07/09/2011 | No Comments26 September · 18:30 – 21:00 Upstairs at The Cheshire Cheese (NOT Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet St) 5, Little Essex Street Temple London WC2R 3LD – map here Einstein was right about the Theory of Relativity. Was he right about the need for... -
I am still a pro-European
Posted on 31/08/2011 | No CommentsAn interesting post by Jon Worth arguing that framing the debate about Britain and Europe in terms of pro-European and Eurosceptic is not helpful. The European Union legislates everything from working hours to the price of potatoes, air quality to trade tariffs. There is no... -
Federalism and the future of Spain
Posted on 10/05/2011 | No CommentsBy Joan Marc Simon Spain is a unitary state like France and Italy. Its constitution defines it as “one and indivisible”. Since 1978 Spain has structured itself as Estado de las Autonomias, a state with 17 Autonomous Communities with an asymmetric decentralisation of competences. Some... -
A briefing from Number 10
Posted on 06/04/2011 | No CommentsA report in the Evening Standard today on the precarious state of the coalition government, faced with health reforms, the AV referendum and much else. The National Health Service, in particular, is a problem: the government has embarked on a far-reaching upheaval of the way... -
Development aid shows the limits of the national interest
Posted on 10/02/2011 | 1 CommentA fascinating article by development expert Owen Barder on the difficulties of winning the argument over foreign aid. It is frequently argued that providing development to the world’s poorest people is in our national interest, and so it is, but Owen Barder argues that it... -
Cosmopolitan democracy and federalism
Posted on 17/01/2011 | 1 CommentAn important paper by Guido Montani, presented to the Third Annual European Seminar on the Future of the European Union in Ventotene, 28-29 August 2010. The purpose of this paper is to overcome the theoretical gap which exists between the theorists of cosmopolitan democracy and... -
Federal Union review of 2010
Posted on 07/01/2011 | No CommentsA review of 2010 from the perspective of federalism must surely start with the difficulties in the eurozone. The creation of the euro was the most dramatic and substantial step in the history of European unity, which means that talk now of the eurozone breaking... -
Federalism in history
Posted on 20/12/2010 | No CommentsI read that Google Books has created a searchable database of the words in its 5.2 million book digital archive, so I thought would check out “federalism” and “Federal Union” in British books and the results appear on this graph below: “Federalism”, shown in blue,... -
How to make companies pay tax
Posted on 17/12/2010 | No CommentsSaturday is a day of action by tax campaigners UK Uncut against companies that do not seem to be paying their fair share of tax. I have some reservations about the campaign even while endorsing the basic principle. A particular concern is the way that...
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