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- 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...
- If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu - 22/02/2012By Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The...
- Political language - 17/02/2012There is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare...
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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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European Convention Archive
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Tony Blair: Europe needs a leader
Posted on 10/06/2011 | 2 CommentsThis website has long been advocating the view that the European Union needs effective and accountable leadership, most notably during the debates surrounding the European Convention in 2003 that led to the constitutional treaty (and subsequently the Lisbon treaty). See Europe needs an accountable president... -
Damage to democracy
Posted on 03/07/2007 | 2 CommentsA meeting of the International European Movement was held this weekend in Berlin. I was there as a British delegate and also because the UEF bureau was meeting in parallel. I’m not sure if it’s really a good idea to have such meetings scheduled for... -
To the European Heads of Government gathering in Madrid on 26 January 2007
Posted on 23/01/2007 | No CommentsBrussels, 23 January 2007 The last important step in the European integration process was taken in Maastricht in 1991, when the then 12 member states of the European Union decided to establish an economic and monetary union. The EU has more than doubled in membership... -
Present at the creation
Posted on 17/05/2006 | No CommentsJohn Parry reviews “The accidental constitution”, by Peter Norman (published by EuroComment, Brussels), and “The struggle for Europe’s constitution”, by Andrew Duff (published by the Federal Trust) From the start, the goal of the European project was political. To quote from the preamble of the... -
After the failure of the IGC, UEF calls on states in favour of the draft constitution to go ahead with its signature and adoption
Posted on 15/12/2003 | No CommentsBrussels, 15 December 2003 The Union of European Federalists noted with great concern the failure of the European Summit meeting in Brussels on 12 and 13 December 2003, to agree on the draft Constitutional Treaty adopted by the European Convention, a legitimate body representing not... -
Double majority voting is the only sensible way to cast votes in the Council of Ministers
Posted on 27/11/2003 | No CommentsFederalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 15, 27 November 2003 Double majority voting is the only sensible way to cast votes in the Council of Ministers The distribution of votes among member states in the Council of Ministers has turned out to... -
Speech to the European constitutional convention
Posted on 23/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Fernand Herman, on behalf of the Federalist Voice network Mr Presidents, ladies, gentlemen, honourable members of the Convention You have heard at length from diverse members of civil society who have expectations of Europe. Those expectations are many and pressing. For the most part,... -
The European Convention: work in progress
Posted on 23/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Brendan Donnelly Current discussion of the European Convention’s work and prospects centres around three related topics, namely the ability or otherwise of the Convention to arrive at a consensus among its varied members; the likely nature of this consensus if it is achieved; and... -
The Laeken Declaration: the way to a constitution for the citizens of Europe?
Posted on 23/08/2003 | No CommentsAfter the embarrassment of the Nice Summit the heads of state and government were obliged to recognise that the old way of working via government representatives meeting behind closed doors has come to an end. An enlarged Europe will founder without a far-reaching reform of... -
Can the Laeken Convention save the European Union?
Posted on 14/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Marc-Oliver Pahl The European Union has been discussing the reform of its constitutional foundations to prepare for enlargement to the East since spring 1996. In the first round of reforms a so-called Reflection Committee of high level representatives of the member states’ governments and...
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