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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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- 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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Future EU relations with Russia: implications for the European constitutional debate
Posted on 31/03/2007 | No CommentsLondon, Saturday 31 March 2007 The 2007 AGM of Federal Union will be held on Saturday 31 March. The meeting will discuss the future of EU relations with Russia and debate the future of the European constitutional treaty. 11 am, Saturday 31 March 2007 Northampton... -
Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy?
Posted on 11/02/2007 | No CommentsBy John Preston The question asks: “Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy? – and to discuss (implicitly) the democratic deficit? – and the future of the Treaty? The plan is to concentrate on aspects of the institutions of the EU and the... -
Ratification is not an optional extra
Posted on 07/02/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 7 February 2007 Of all the problems with the convention/IGC process that delivered the constitutional treaty, one of the biggest is that it did not deal properly with the process of ratification. There was no recommendation on how ratification should unfold... -
With reform, Europe can be a force for good
Posted on 04/02/2007 | No CommentsLet’s ban the word “reform”. Who knows what it means? Who could ever be against it? It is like one of those irregular verbs that Craig Brown invents: - My reforms represent traditional values in a modern setting - You wish in retrospect you had... -
Review of 2006
Posted on 07/01/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were many improvements, but at least things did not go on getting worse. Global institutions You... -
Green 9 – The EU’s new Constitution: Assessing the Environmental Perspective
Posted on 20/11/2006 | No CommentsNovember 2004 Retain environmental and sustainable development objectives and the integration principle. This demand refers mainly to the objectives of environmental protection and sustainable development (I-3) and to the integration principle (III-4). The statement of the objectives is, if anything, somewhat stronger than in the... -
Why is the constitutional treaty so long and complicated?
Posted on 18/11/2006 | No CommentsA very interesting seminar today on the future of the constitutional treaty. A full report will follow soon in the news section of the website, but here are some quick reactions. The basic debate was between Andrew Duff MEP and Wayne David MP, each a... -
Suits you
Posted on 15/11/2006 | No CommentsBritain is no longer a sovereign state: it’s official. Summoned to give evidence to the United States Congress on the progress of the war in Iraq, Tony Blair jumps to attention. A video link is set up so that he can explain his thinking and... -
Margaret Beckett “grandiose project” 18/10/06 Sunday, Nov 5
Posted on 13/11/2006 | 1 Commentfrom the Guardian: Nicholas Watt in Luxembourg Wednesday October 18, 2006 Britain yesterday gave its strongest indication that it regards the European constitution as dead when Margaret Beckett declared that the “grandiose project” had failed. In remarks which went beyond Tony Blair’s carefully crafted comments... -
Mr Brown comes to Brussels
Posted on 08/11/2006 | No CommentsOn present plans, the German Presidency in the first half of next year will conclude its work with a European Council at which a procedure and timetable will be adopted for the relaunching of the process to revise the institutional workings of the European Union,...
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