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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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Where next for the European Union?
Posted on 20/03/2006 | No CommentsBy Brendan Donnelly In discussing the future of the European Union, we have to start by acknowledging that there is a substantial and probably growing unease in the relationship between the European Union and its citizens. This unease has most recently been illustrated in the... -
Send the constitutional debate back to the member states, says the UEF
Posted on 20/01/2006 | No CommentsUEF and JEF call for local, regional and national governments and European civil society to grasp the opportunities of the Duff-Voggenhuber report Today, 20 January, the UEF and JEF sent joint letters to European civil society organisations as well as to local, regional and national... -
Thomas Jefferson v Alexander Hamilton
Posted on 04/01/2006 | 12 CommentsThere was a fascinating debate on the radio this evening comparing the political philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both were important figures in the American revolution and the constitutional debate that followed. Alexander Hamilton is valued particularly as one of the earliest and... -
EU chain of control
Posted on 18/06/2005 | No CommentsBy Lawrence Fullick Published in The Tablet, 18 June 2005 Sir Stephen Wall’s view of the European Union after the French and Dutch referendums (The Tablet, 11 June) states some sensible precepts for the Union to steer by in the future. However, he omits the need for... -
How can multilateralism be democratic?
Posted on 12/03/2005 | No CommentsBased on a talk given by Richard Laming to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. I remember in the days of the debate about the euro, a central part of our argument was that democracy should not be confined the national level, it... -
The democratic credentials of the new European Union: does the Constitution increase the EU’s democratic legitimacy?
Posted on 03/09/2004 | No CommentsBrussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that there are issues too big for an individual country to solve on its own. European integration... -
Citizens in Europe, citizens of Europe
Posted on 26/02/2002 | No Comments“Democracy requires not only the people. You can create the apparatus of a state at European level, with a common frontier, a single immigration policy, a common foreign and defence policy, and a single currency. All the attributes of the nation state, all its along...
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