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Latest News
- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
EU institutions Archive
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EU institutions in a changing European landscape (22 February 2013)
Posted on 05/02/2013 | No CommentsDebate, 12:45 – 14:15, Friday 22nd February 2013 Policy Network in cooperation with the European Parliament Information Office in the UK is hosting an informal lunchtime discussion with Klaus Welle, Secretary General of the European Parliament, discussing ‘EU institutions in a changing European landscape’. This... -
Alive and kicking
Posted on 19/09/2011 | 6 CommentsA very interesting comment here by Centre for European Reform chief economist Simon Tilford, wondering whether the national governments of the member states of the eurozone have got what it takes for the eurozone to survive. He is very worried that they have not. They... -
How the EU can communicate better
Posted on 04/10/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 4 October 2006 The European Commission’s consultation on its communication policy is a landmark event. No longer can the Commission be accused of being a remote, isolate bureaucracy. Its consultation was seeking opinions on how it should engage with the wider... -
The British problem with Europe
Posted on 14/02/2005 | No CommentsBy Brendan Donnelly I take as my starting-point the personal position of Mr Blair. I believe that he is sincere in his desire to make the British people feel more secure and more at ease in the European Union. I think, however, that the tactics... -
Federal Union’s model of the European Union could not be further from a superstate
Posted on 29/10/2002 | No CommentsCorrespondence with Peter Hain, British government representative in the European constitutional convention 11 October 2002 Dear Mr Hain You said on Newsnight this evening that all thoughts of a “federal superstate with all power concentrated in the Commission and in the European Parliament” were dead.... -
Representative democracy has not passed its sell-by date
Posted on 02/10/2001 | No CommentsA submission to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee, 2 October 2001 1. This paper looks at the unpopularity of political institutions in general, the unpopularity of the European Union institutions in particular, and outlines some principles upon which reform should be based. It...
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