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Latest Articles in 'Europe'
- Solving the financial crisis – who pays? - 22/12/2011Federal Union and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust held a discussion on 10 November 2011 about the current financial crisis in the light of the ethics and vision of the...
- Three threats to the euro still remain - 15/12/2011The European Council meeting a week ago was convened with the aim of saving the euro. Agreement was reached at the meeting about a way forward for the EU, even...
- Is Germany doing enough to save the euro? - 13/12/2011Debate at King’s College London, on 12 December 2011, on the subject of “Germany has not taken enough proactive steps to solve the eurozone crisis, despite being at the top...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
- Incident on the A598 - 25/01/2012This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy...
- The Republican opponents of Barack Obama - 13/01/2012The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as...
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Shot by both sides
Posted on 01/12/2011 | No CommentsIt is always nice when a hunch gets confirmed by data, so thank you to Simon Hix of the LSE for a presentation earlier this week on coalitions within the European Union. We are continually having to fend off criticisms from the right and left... -
A German decision that sets back Europe
Posted on 11/11/2011 | No CommentsNews reaches me of a rather strange decision by the German constitutional court regarding the elections to the European Parliament. The ruling is forcing a change in the way in which Germany elects its MEPs. The decision is strange not because it is inconsistent with... -
Parliaments and the European Union – Representative Democracy after the Lisbon Treaty (6 July 2011)
Posted on 15/06/2011 | 1 CommentParliaments and the European Union – Representative Democracy after the Lisbon Treaty 6 July 2011, 2pm – 6pm, followed by a reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Programme: 13.45 – 14.00: Registration Session 1: The European Parliament 14.00 – 14.20: “The... -
Denis MacShane picks the wrong target on the European Parliament
Posted on 04/04/2011 | No CommentsA new pamphlet by Labour MP Denis MacShane, “Europe’s parliament: Reform or perish?”, published by the Centre for European Reform, worries about the decline of public interest in the European Parliament, and explores some ways in which it might be reinvigorated. For anyone who cares... -
A parliament with a purpose
Posted on 15/01/2010 | 2 CommentsEuropean Alternatives is circulating a petition calling upon the European Parliament to try to attach conditions to its approval of the members of the next European Commission. (You can read the petition here.) The EP is currently scrutinising the appointments that have been made, giving... -
Re-election of Barroso reveals old flaws
Posted on 18/09/2009 | No CommentsA vote by the European Parliament earlier this week confirmed José Manuel Barroso in office for another term as president of the European Commission. Mr Barroso had been more or less openly campaigning for this result for the past year, so he can look back... -
European election results finally published
Posted on 14/09/2009 | No CommentsI wrote on this blog at the end of June asking who had won the European elections. The figures on seats won were quickly announced, but it has taken longer for an analysis of the votes cast to be produced. In one sense, the European... -
Home truths about abroad
Posted on 01/07/2009 | 1 CommentThe judgment by the German constitutional court approving of the Lisbon treaty has been broadly welcomed by pro-Europeans in Germany. (See a commentary by Hans-Jürgen Schlamp on Speigel Online here.) One exception to this general rule, though, is that there has been some concern expressed... -
The Socialists should oppose the nomination of Barroso
Posted on 30/06/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 30 June 2009 Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s campaign for re-election cleared its latest hurdle at the end of presidency European Council meeting earlier this month. Mr Barroso was unanimously, if provisionally, nominated by the assembled heads of state and... -
Credit where it’s due
Posted on 25/06/2009 | No CommentsThe Conservatives have now formed their new group in the European Parliament, having left the EPP to found the European Conservatives and Reformists, ECR. David Cameron has kept his campaign promise from his leadership election in the autumn of 2005. A lot of words have...
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