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Latest News
- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
European constitution Archive
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Federal Union Now (6 October 2011)
Posted on 15/09/2011 | No CommentsLAUNCH OF A NEW PUBLICATION BY ANDREW DUFF MEP Thursday 6 October 2011, 5.00 pm Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU The European Union must take a decisive step towards a federal economic government, with common fiscal policies and a larger budget, if... -
Federal Union Now – new publication by Andrew Duff
Posted on 05/09/2011 | 1 CommentThe European Union must take a decisive step towards a federal economic government, with common fiscal policies and a larger budget, if it is to save the euro. Saving the euro is the precondition for the economic recovery of all Europe Therefore a major revision... -
Neo-con nonsense
Posted on 28/01/2011 | 3 CommentsThis website posted in the Quotebank yesterday some comments made by the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, regarding the British relationship with the EU. (Read them here.) He said that “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished... -
UK could help frame EU principles
Posted on 17/01/2011 | 1 CommentLetter published in the Financial Times, 17 January 2011 Sir, The eurosceptic critics of the European Union bill, complaining it does not go far enough to restrain judicial activism (“Tory rebels mobilise against Europe bill”, January 12) should read John Kay’s column “A smart business... -
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,... -
A deal with the Czechs
Posted on 03/11/2009 | 2 CommentsSo, a deal was struck with the Czech Republic to get the Lisbon treaty through. An opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, along Polish and British lines, was added to the treaty, and that was enough to satisfy the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus. (Read... -
The difference that federalism makes to Europe
Posted on 12/01/2009 | No CommentsThe European Union may not be the only factor that has brought peace to Europe, but it is certainly a major one. A set of international institutions founded on the rule of law has changed utterly the way in which different European countries relate to... -
Covenant or contract
Posted on 24/11/2008 | No CommentsOne of the things that has been hard to explain in the debate about the European constitution is the nature of the change that it represents. On the one hand, it would be based on the existing treaties, with many of the same features and... -
Sir Jonathan Sacks: Europe needs a new covenant and the time to begin it is now
Posted on 21/11/2008 | No CommentsFrom a speech by Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, at the European Parliament, 19 November 2008: “Therefore, I want to add one other word, which played a significant part in healing fragmented societies. The word is ‘covenant’.... -
Radek Sikorski: What we need is not less federalism but more
Posted on 14/01/2008 | No Comments“We want to make the EU work better. So here is the word I want us all to concentrate on: federalism. Now, when I say the word federalism, I don’t have in mind the steady tugging of the ratchet towards the European superstate. I don’t...
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