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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
- Federal Union held its AGM and annual conference on 17 March 2012. The morning session, entitled “Can the European Union be saved?”, looked at the European treaty agreed at the...
- 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...
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- 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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Quotebank Archive
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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... -
The democratic deficit is the price Norway pays for being outside the EU
Posted on 26/01/2012 | No CommentsSome British Eurosceptics continually refer to the Norwegian model of being outside the EU but able to trade with it. As it happens, the Norwegian government has just published a comprehensive review of its relationship with the European Union (“Outside and Inside – Norway’s agreements... -
Radoslaw Sikorski: I fear Germany’s power less than her inactivity
Posted on 29/11/2011 | No CommentsThe break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system. Once the logic of “each man for himself” takes hold, can we really trust everyone to act in a communitarian way and resist the temptation to settle... -
Charles Darwin: man ought to extend his social instincts
Posted on 23/11/2011 | No Comments“As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point... -
“State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum” (14 September 2011)
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe 33rd Corbishley Lecture will be given by Professor Joseph Weiler on “State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum”, on Wednesday 14 September at 6.30 pm in the House of Lords by kind courtesy of WPCT Patrons Lord Tomlinson and Lord Williamson, and with... -
Donald Tusk: European integration is not a threat to sovereignty
Posted on 01/07/2011 | No Comments“We lived for many years as a non-sovereign country, under Soviet occupation. For us European integration is not a threat to sovereignty because we experienced not long ago a serious threat to our sovereignty.” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, 1 July 2011 Reported at http://euobserver.com/9/32578/?rk=1 -
Eurelectric: a European energy policy
Posted on 27/01/2011 | No CommentsFrom “Key Messages on: “Energy 2020 ‐ A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy” COM (2010)639 Final”, published by Eurelectric, January 2011: “Priority should be given to implementing and enforcing existing internal electricity and gas market legislation without delay to ensure proper functioning of... -
Louis Susman: “all key issues must run through Europe”
Posted on 27/01/2011 | 1 CommentRemarks by Louis Susman, America’s ambassador to the UK, at the European Parliament, 25 January 2011: “I want to stress that the UK needs to remain in the EU. “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished in any way.... -
John Lanchester: action on the banks has to be international
Posted on 18/10/2010 | No CommentsThis new Lehmans scandal sums up two of the biggest problems that we – the voting, taxpaying general public – still have with the banks, almost two years after they blew up and we bailed them out. First, the operation of capital markets is international,... -
David Frum: EU seat on the UN Security Council
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 Comment“One logical answer to the EU bloc voting problem is to transform France’s permanent seat on the Security Council into an EU seat. That would appropriately recognize the EU’s power and importance: Only permanent members of the Security Council have a veto, after all.” From...
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