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The End of the West: The once and future Europe (29 November 2011)
Posted on 02/11/2011 | No CommentsPanel Discussion jointly hosted by the British Academy and Princeton University Press Tuesday 29 November 2011 6.30pm – 8.00pm, followed by a drinks reception British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 The panel will look at how Europe should respond to the dramatic changes... -
Could you pass the citizenship test?
Posted on 14/10/2011 | No CommentsA nation, famously, is a group of people who think of themselves as a nation. They may have other things in common – a language, a religion, a state – but those are incidental, not fundamental. What matters is the mutual understanding among the people... -
Parliaments and the European Union – Representative Democracy after the Lisbon Treaty (6 July 2011)
Posted on 15/06/2011 | 1 CommentParliaments and the European Union – Representative Democracy after the Lisbon Treaty 6 July 2011, 2pm – 6pm, followed by a reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Programme: 13.45 – 14.00: Registration Session 1: The European Parliament 14.00 – 14.20: “The... -
No euro, no European Union?
Posted on 30/08/2010 | No Commentsby Brendan Donnelly The Lisbon Treaty creates new challenges and new opportunities for the European Union. The enhanced role of national and European Parliaments will make the Union a more democratic and accountable polity; the Union’s institutions will be able to make an enhanced contribution... -
It wasn’t a vote about architecture
Posted on 05/12/2009 | No CommentsThe timing could not have been better. The fallout of the Conservative decision not to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty now that it has come into force, and not to hold a referendum on any other European question either until new proposals come... -
Democracy and national identity
Posted on 24/03/2009 | 1 CommentThere was an interesting comment yesterday in the debate about the government’s green paper on a new Bill of Rights. Justice secretary Jack Straw introduced the debate, with a proposal to put down in writing more detail about citizens’ rights and responsibilities in the UK.... -
Europe needs an opposition
Posted on 19/02/2009 | 2 CommentsCzech president Václav Klaus touched a few raw nerves with his speech in the European Parliament today, but he also unveiled the contradictions in his position. (You can read the speech here.) President Klaus is a noted critic of the European Union and did not... -
Finding an identity
Posted on 19/09/2008 | 1 CommentAn interesting essay by immigration minister Liam Byrne, entitled “A more united kingdom”, deserved a better press than it got when it was published earlier this week. Most attention was given to the suggestion that there should be a public holiday to celebrate of “Britishness”... -
Where does Britishness come from?
Posted on 14/03/2008 | 2 CommentsInteresting comment here by Charles Moore on how Britishness is “artificial” (and he means it “as a compliment”): “It may be that the government’s plan for oaths of allegiance for 18-year-olds in schools won’t work, but I am suspicious of the argument that it is... -
Is a majority enough?
Posted on 05/07/2006 | 2 CommentsI went to the Second European Citizens’ Convention in Vienna last week, and said a few words in a discussion about how a future constitution might be ratified. An earlier speaker, Sergio Pistone, had spoken of the importance of majority voting, rather than unanimity, in...
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