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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...
Latest Blog Entries
- 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...
globalisation Archive
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Regionalism and the conditions for a new international organisation
Posted on 27/01/2008 | No CommentsBy Thomas Lane The first assumption of this paper is that regionalism is not enough. It is a necessary but not a sufficient response to global problems. These are becoming increasingly severe and incapable of resolution except by an effective and acceptable form of world... -
Europe has already learnt the lesson of a multi-polar world
Posted on 29/11/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 29 November 2007 Sir, In looking for a possible successor to the dollar as the global reserve currency (“Could the euro rule supreme? It’s not worth it”, November 27), the reality is that no currency and no national... -
Data privacy
Posted on 14/09/2007 | No CommentsSome people said that the rise of globalisation would lead to the end of government. People could trade and communicate with each other across national borders and regulation as we know it would start to disappear. Fuelled by the internet, state power will irreversibly decline.... -
Europe in 2020: what’s the prognosis?
Posted on 29/01/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming It is not possible to talk about Europe in the year 2020 without first looking at the world as a whole. I think there are three trends on the global scene to point out. Interdependence The first is a rise in interdependence.... -
Time for a New Global Architecture
Posted on 24/04/2006 | No CommentsBy Stephen S. Roach, 24 April 2006 The world has avoided a major financial crisis for more than seven years. This is due more to luck than design. With oil prices surging, central banks leaning against the upside of the liquidity cycle, and global imbalances mounting,... -
The European role in ruling globalisation
Posted on 28/05/2005 | No CommentsBy Alberto Majocchi Globalisation is a very complex phenomenon and is difficult to analyse in its different aspects. Hence, I will limit myself to a discussion of its main characteristics and of the positive and negative effects that can spring out from this process, trying... -
11 September and its aftermath
Posted on 24/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Keith Best We have been told on innumerable occasions that the world is very different after September 11. Before the phrase creeps into popular mythology we should examine objectively how the world has changed, if at all, and from the subjective point of view... -
The GATS proposals: only half the picture
Posted on 02/01/2003 | No CommentsA submission by Federal Union to the Department of Trade and Industry, 2 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, why we welcome the GATS process. Thirdly, some specific comments on aspects of the consultation document. Fourthly,... -
Federalism and the global challenges
Posted on 15/08/2002 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Notes for “Federalism and the global challenges”, Ventotene, 4 September 2002 What do federalists think of globalisation? What is globalisation? It is people and organisations doing things they used to do in one country on a global level instead. National borders are... -
The Tobin Tax is no substitute for a world currency
Posted on 01/12/2001 | No CommentsBy Guido Montani In the Fall 2000 issue of World Federalist News, in an article on the World Federalist Movement’s programme (Tobin Tax Campaigns Take Off?), it is argued that federalists should support a campaign in favour of the Tobin Tax and fight for the...
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