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- 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...
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- 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...
eurosceptics Archive
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Déjà vu all over again
Posted on 25/08/2011 | No CommentsDuring the 1990s, the political debate about Europe in Britain was polluted by Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum party. (I have thought a lot about which verb to use in that previous sentence.) The demand from Sir James was for a referendum on EU... -
The EU and the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | 1 CommentAt the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, was not abolishing the death penalty but in fact bringing it back. ... -
Undercover cop reveals truth about eurosceptics
Posted on 14/01/2011 | No CommentsOther than the obvious question of whether or not anyone involved in Federal Union was actually a policeman in disguise, the story this week about the police officer who went deep undercover in the environmental movement for seven years tells us something about accountability. Mark... -
Where sovereignty lies
Posted on 12/01/2011 | No CommentsThe debate on the European Union bill in the House of Commons yesterday focused on a clause that declares that the British parliament is still sovereign with respect to the European Union, and an amendment from veteran eurosceptic Bill Cash to make it tougher. (Norman... -
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence?
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 CommentSouverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be told how to defend itself. Brussels, for example, should keep out. So surely the intervention... -
Sandals or jackboots?
Posted on 25/07/2010 | 2 CommentsLast Thursday’s blog post about Daniel Hannan’s view of Iceland has provoked a response. The Conservative MEP has replied in his blog on the Telegraph website (read it here). Aside from selectively quoting from this blog to distort its argument, he describes Federal Union as... -
A politician thinking small
Posted on 21/07/2010 | 4 CommentsConservative anti-European MEP Daniel Hannan writes from Iceland that, rather than bailing out the banks, they should have been allowed to crash. The apparent health of the Icelandic economy is proof that this would have been a better thing to do. Financial assets may have... -
“There is going to be trouble”
Posted on 14/05/2010 | No CommentsPolitical participants and commentators from all parts of the political spectrum have been left astounded by the events of the past week. Who can really understand the implications of the new coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats? Think about it. Arch eurosceptics like... -
The legitimacy of Lisbon
Posted on 08/12/2009 | 7 CommentsIn a debate at University College London yesterday, the argument came forth from the anti-European speakers that the Lisbon treaty was illegitimate in a way that was not true of previous European treaties. It is hard to work out exactly what they mean – they... -
Odd position for a Eurosceptic
Posted on 03/07/2009 | No CommentsFurther to the previous blog entry about the calls for a general election, I find this further example, from the House of Commons on 16 June: Mr. Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley) (Con): Following the crushing defeats experienced by the Government on 7 June, when the...
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