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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
- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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Britain and the EU Archive
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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... -
Don’t bind my hands
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsIn the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In a theatrical gesture at a press conference, he declared: “Whether you agree with me, disagree... -
The UK and the European Budget (13 October 2011)
Posted on 28/09/2011 | No CommentsTHE COALITION AND EUROPE AFTER THE HONEYMOON - A NEW SERIES OF CONFERENCES 13 OCTOBER - THE UK AND THE EUROPEAN BUDGET EUROPE HOUSE, 32 SMITH SQUARE, LONDON SW1P 3EU 2.00 – 5.30 pm followed by a drinks reception In conjunction with the Global Policy... -
Is it time to leave the EU?
Posted on 23/09/2011 | No CommentsI spoke at a debate earlier this week organised by the Spectator, with the subject of “Is it time to leave the EU?”; naturally, I was against the motion. Also on our side were Denis MacShane MP and Phillip Souta, director of Business for New... -
Say what you mean
Posted on 19/09/2011 | 1 CommentTory MP Mark Pritchard writes in the Daily Telegraph today calling for a two-stage referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union. The first stage is a referendum next year on whether we want to be part of a political union or only a part... -
The coalition government and the European Union – who, whom?
Posted on 13/09/2011 | 2 CommentsThe Federal Union committee, at its meeting on 12 September, discussed the record of the coalition government on Europe and in particular the influence of the Liberal Democrats. The outcome of the general election in 2010, with the Conservatives the largest party but 20 seats... -
Self-control
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsGiven that the death penalty had already effectively been abolished in the UK decades previously (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland), it was uncontroversial in politics to sign the two protocols of the European Convention of Human Rights that prohibit... -
Why bring back the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe coalition government’s latest experiment in direct democracy is a website where people can post epetitions. If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons. The epetitions website is here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/index.html. One of the first... -
Can you trust this website?
Posted on 14/06/2011 | 2 CommentsAfter the excitement caused by the outing of the Syrian lesbian blogger –she was in fact a man, in Scotland! – one might ask whether any website is really what it seems. This one, for example. Is there really a long-standing British argument for the... -
Britain in the EU – Policy priorities for Britain’s membership of the European Union (9 June 2011)
Posted on 19/05/2011 | No CommentsThe European Movement together with the Conservative Europe Group, the Labour Movement for Europe and the Liberal Democrat European Group is organising a cross-party discussion on ‘Britain in the EU’. The event aims to bring together activists from all three parties and European Movement members...
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