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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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Green experts: Reform Treaty “should enhance environmental protection”
Posted on 23/10/2007 | No CommentsEnvironment groups have given a cautious welcome to the revised EU treaty approved by heads of state and government at a summit in Lisbon in the early hours of Friday. There has been no scaling back of the bloc’s environmental ambitions, observers say, and the... -
Tim Lang: “a new structure of government”, 27/01/07
Posted on 29/01/2007 | No CommentsWriting about making the retail chain more sustainable, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, writes: “Lessons suggest retailers must together demand a new structure of government – nationally and at EU level. Going it alone is too risky.” From “The new order... -
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... -
Ecological self-sufficiency
Posted on 15/04/2006 | No CommentsAccording to the New Economics Foundation, the UK goes into ecological debt to the rest of the world on Easter Sunday (16 April). From tomorrow onwards, the British are living off the natural resources of other countries having exhausted their own. (Read the report here)... -
Plan F has lessons for Plan D
Posted on 12/04/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 12 April 2006 Last week’s change of mind by the European Commission on the use of fluorinated gases in refrigeration and air conditioning will not only help fight the threatof climate change but might also change the political climate in... -
The EU should tax airline fuel
Posted on 16/02/2005 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 16 February 2005 The debate about taxing airline fuel has sprung back into life, thanks to the German government. The money could be used for development assistance, they say. Actually, it could be used to do much more than that....
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