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The future of European multilateralism in NATO (28 November 2011)
Posted on 11/11/2011 | No CommentsMonday 28 November 2011: 18.00 for 18.15 – 20.00 Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB A seminar organised by the European Liberal Forum asbl. (ELF) with the support of the British think tank CentreForum, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Germany), and Stichting IDI (Netherlands)... -
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence?
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 CommentSouverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be told how to defend itself. Brussels, for example, should keep out. So surely the intervention... -
It’s not about the taxpayer
Posted on 09/10/2010 | 1 CommentThe latest report from the Taxpayers’ Alliance on the question of European defence cooperation says rather more about the author than it does about the subject. It is generally understood that there is considerable waste and duplication among the relatively small defence budgets of the... -
The background to Britain’s future foreign policy
Posted on 04/10/2010 | No CommentsDifferent visions of Britain’s future foreign policy lie behind the disputes at the top of both Labour and Conservative parties at the moment. Those different visions are crystallised in personal clashes, but the debate goes beyond mere personalities. In Labour’s case, the victory by Ed... -
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... -
Britain and its allies
Posted on 16/07/2010 | No CommentsHaving criticised the new government’s policy on Afghanistan earlier in the week, this blog can also praise it, too. Specifically, the speech by armed forces minister Nick Harvey to the Royal United Services Institute, and his comments about the UK’s allies (read the speech here).... -
Supranational issues
Posted on 28/11/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in the Spectator, 28 November 2009 Sir: Your cover story (“How the Tories can still win in Europe”, 14 November) quotes Liam Fox saying: “We can never allow defence procurement to be a supranational issue”. If he really means this, he... -
The hand of history
Posted on 23/11/2009 | No CommentsIn the Daily Telegraph, we find that Conservative shadow defence secretary Liam Fox is adjusting his tune on Nato members’ military commitments. (Read the article here.) Formerly, he had expressed the view that Nato should lay down minimum requirements for defence expenditure by each member... -
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... -
Our independent deterrent
Posted on 17/02/2009 | No CommentsThinking more about the submarine collision that was reported yesterday, there was an interesting conversation on the radio this morning with a veteran commander of nuclear submarines. He was being asked about how it could happen that two submarines might end up in the same...
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