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European identity Archive
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The fate of the EU flag
Posted on 11/12/2007 | 1 CommentThe Young European Federalists are launching a campaign complaining at the loss of the European flag from the Reform Treaty. You can read about their campaign here: http://www.communicate-europe.co.uk/fileadmin/files_jef-europe/JEF_Documents/Leaflet_FLAG_new.pdf A nice idea for campaign, maybe, but I don’t think I agree with it. Partly it’s a... -
Does Europe need a policy on sport?
Posted on 23/10/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 October 2007 It happens quite often, but not always so visibly, that European decisions have an impact on everyday life. An important and recent example lies in the agreement last week in Lisbon on the Reform Treaty, where a... -
Proud to be British
Posted on 09/09/2007 | 1 CommentA story in the Sunday Telegraph today about possible changes to British passports: read it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/nqueen109.xml The gist of the proposal is that new EU passports should include a standard EU wording. The Telegraph reports that the proposed wording was from the constitutional treaty... -
Civilisation
Posted on 25/09/2006 | 3 CommentsJust back from a weekend seminar in Switzerland, to mark the 60th anniversaries of Winston’s Churchill’s famous speech in Zurich (which you can read here) and of the adoption of the Hertenstein programme (which you can read here). During the weekend, it was seemed as... -
Foreign courts
Posted on 27/06/2006 | 4 CommentsAmid all the fuss about the constitutional and legal implications of David Cameron’s call for a new Bill of Rights, the most interesting point is his description of the European Convention and Court as “foreign”. That’s a statement worth looking at more closely. The Convention... -
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... -
The dream of Rome
Posted on 31/01/2006 | 1 CommentIt’s taken me two days to get over watching Boris Johnson on the subject of the Roman empire before I could sit down to write a blog entry about it. Aside from a politician being given two hour long programmes to put forward his views... -
Trust
Posted on 23/01/2006 | 1 CommentA fascinating presentation this morning by the Edelman public relations company of their 2006 Trust Barometer. This is a survey of opinion around the world of the extent to which different institutions in society are trusted. The headline figure is that NGOs and business are... -
Blend it like Beckham
Posted on 02/07/2003 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 2 July 2003 Not content with helping his former club to the Premiership title, David Beckham now strikes a blow for European integration when he joins Real Madrid. Moving abroad in pursuit of work is as natural these days as... -
Federalism and national identity
Posted on 26/02/2003 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Concern about nationalism and national identity is the basis of the enduring debate about the future of the European Union today: given how stubbornly the countries of Europe cling to the idea of Europe in the face of all kinds of pressure...
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