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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
- Federal Union held its AGM and annual conference on 17 March 2012. The morning session, entitled “Can the European Union be saved?”, looked at the European treaty agreed at the...
- 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...
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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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Europe without borders – The benefits of free movement of labour in the EU (14 October 2010)
Posted on 03/10/2010 | No CommentsThursday 14 October 2010, 7 .00 pm The European Movement in London, the Embassy of Romania to the UK and the European Commission Representation in the UK are organising an event entitled ‘Europe without borders – The benefits of free movement of labour in the EU’. The event will feature speeches from: - HE Dr.... -
Will Ed Miliband revive pro-European politics?
Posted on 29/09/2010 | 3 CommentsFollowing new Labour leader Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday at the Labour party conference, I was delighted when he declared that one of his political heroes was William Beveridge. Wow, me too! Beveridge was one of the leading supporters of Federal Union in its early days,... -
Repaying student loans
Posted on 26/02/2009 | No CommentsA news report from the BBC today reveals that growing numbers of students from other EU countries are not repaying their loans to the British Student Loans Company. (Read the report here.) What is going on? The starting point is that, under EU free movement... -
Can Geert Wilders enter Britain?
Posted on 11/02/2009 | 2 CommentsControversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been banned from coming to the UK. (Read the story here.) He has made a film critical of Islam, which he proposes to show at a meeting in the House of Lords, but the Home Secretary has denied him... -
Immobility
Posted on 03/02/2009 | No CommentsThe dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of the EU is that of the free movement of workers. The single market is founded... -
A blanket of whiteness
Posted on 03/02/2009 | 1 CommentAs a blanket of whiteness spreads across the country, so too do strikes and protests against the employment of foreign workers. The anti-European free market right is enjoying the discomfort brought to the government, but is that really correct in view of what is going... -
Lech Walesa: An improbable thing has happened – in many areas Europe is becoming one state
Posted on 21/12/2007 | No CommentsPresidents and prime ministers threw open snowy frontiers across the old Communist Bloc yesterday, as nine countries joined the European Union’s area of “passport-free” travel. For the tens of millions of east Europeans for whom foreign travel was almost impossible less than 20 years ago,... -
Deportation
Posted on 22/08/2007 | 1 CommentLots in the newspapers today about the failure of the government’s attempt to deport an Italian citizen back to Italy when his prison sentence for murder is completed. The government appears to have assumed that its powers to expel undesirables extends to Italians, but thanks... -
L is for liberalisation
Posted on 02/04/2006 | No CommentsA fine piece by Dan O’Brien in the Financial Times last Friday about economic liberalisation in the EU. You need a subscription to be able to read it on FT.com, so I’ll give you the gist of it here. The central argument is that economic... -
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...
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