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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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Albert Einstein: “Nationalism is an infantile disease”
Posted on 19/08/2010 | 1 CommentNationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929) Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good... -
Vaclav Havel: “more room for the expression of the will of individual nations and for the exercise of their identity”
Posted on 14/08/2010 | No Comments”I would recommend to take the course of a gradual, increasingly profound, enhancement of the parliamentary and federal elements, rather than one founded on treaties among states and on institutions built on the basis of such treaty arrangements. This may look surprising at first sight,... -
W B Curry: “The Case for Federal Union”
Posted on 14/08/2010 | No Comments“Suppose that, like the States of the USA all states had lost the right to maintain armed forces, the right to do what they like in matters affecting other countries, the right to impose tariffs or interfere with free travel. What a hideous slavery would... -
Jean Monnet: “The union of Europe cannot be based on good will alone”
Posted on 14/08/2010 | No Comments“The union of Europe cannot be based on good will alone. Rules are needed. The tragic events we have lived through and are still witnessing may have made us wiser. But men pass away; others will take our place. We cannot bequeath them our personal... -
Thomas Paine, from “Rights of Man”
Posted on 14/08/2010 | No Comments“If there is a country in the world, where concord, according to common calculations, would be least expected, it is America. Made up, as it is, of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different... -
Dr Duncan Redford: proposed navy cuts are bad for Britain and Europe
Posted on 12/08/2010 | No CommentsFrom a letter published in the Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2010 The oft-stated position that our Armed Forces will have to work far more closely with allies than previously is the only basis available for assessing where cuts should be made. By this measure the... -
Jerzy Buzek: Today we need a new Schuman declaration … because we need a new sense of solidarity in the production, purchase and consumption of energy
Posted on 23/11/2009 | No CommentsSpeaking yesterday (4 November) at the opening ceremony of the College of Europe’s Bruges campus, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek identified the creation of a European Energy Community as the next big vision for Europe. “For some in the EU, energy policy is the fight... -
Barry Tempest: to its credit, the European Union has adopted the Convention as a condition of EU membership
Posted on 12/11/2009 | No CommentsThe claim about the “totally alien form of justice” is just plain wrong … the erroneous belief that European forms of justice are somehow at fundamental variance with British traditions has gained some currency, and it creates entirely unnecessary unease. As part of the Second... -
Michael Ignatieff: What is at stake is no less than the future of global government
Posted on 20/09/2009 | No CommentsMichael Ignatieff, Leader of Canadian Liberal Opposition, quoted in interview with Charles Kennedy, The House Magazine, 21/9/09 “In Canada we have a deep, entrenched sense that we are a federal union in which there is, and must be, substantial powers to the provinces and even... -
Radoslaw Sikorski: Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world
Posted on 20/09/2009 | No Comments“Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world. We don’t want the European Union to become a “super-state”, but we do want it to be more effective. We support building a more federal...
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