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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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Italian Federalists from Carlo Cattaneo to the new Title V of the Constitution (16 May 2011)
Posted on 20/04/2011 | No Comments16 May 2011 – 6.30 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 6th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, London Metropolitan University, the Federal Trust and the Devolution Club. Speaker: Prof Giorgio Rebuffa, University of Genova Discussant: Prof Peter Leyland,... -
Step out of the 19th century
Posted on 18/04/2011 | 1 CommentThere has been some concern among campaigners that, with the royal wedding held only a few days before the referendum on electoral reform, attention might be distracted from the Big Day. But there is something appropriate about two ancient features of our constitution being celebrated... -
Charlotte Waterlow (1915-2011)
Posted on 15/03/2011 | No CommentsWe regret to report the passing of Charlotte Waterlow, a long-standing activist in the World Federalist Movement and the United Nations Association. You can read an appreciation of her life and work here, on the website of Keith Suter http://www.keithsuter.com/2008/11/05/memoirs-of-a-global-citizen/ Death announcement in The Times:... -
Federalism in history
Posted on 20/12/2010 | No CommentsI read that Google Books has created a searchable database of the words in its 5.2 million book digital archive, so I thought would check out “federalism” and “Federal Union” in British books and the results appear on this graph below: “Federalism”, shown in blue,... -
Proof that peace is not news
Posted on 23/11/2010 | No CommentsAt any other moment in modern European history, the following story would be big news: “Germany to abolish compulsory military service“. A continual theme in the history of Europe is the sheer destructiveness of warfare – one third of the German and Czech populations died... -
The Czechoslovakia of 2010
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsThe foreign minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, provoked a storm in a meeting with his counterparts from France and Italy yesterday, rejecting the European approach to the problems of the Middle East. In a reference to the Munich conference of 1938, he declared that “We... -
Altiero Spinelli and European Unification
Posted on 26/08/2010 | No CommentsRead an article by Sergio Pistone, professor of the history of international relations at the University of Turin, on the role of Altiero Spinelli in the unification of Europe. pistoneonspinelli -
A complete and indissoluble union
Posted on 13/06/2010 | 1 CommentBy John Parry Seventy years ago, on 16 June 1940, the British government under Winston Churchill took the remarkable step of offering complete and indissoluble political union with France. The proposal was one of the most innovative in the history of the two countries. It... -
The future of the EU after the Lisbon treaty
Posted on 22/10/2009 | No CommentsI was asked to give a talk to the politics society at Royal Holloway college in Egham a couple of weeks ago, on the future of the EU after the Lisbon treaty. I turned the notes from my talk into article, which you can read... -
The wind of change
Posted on 11/09/2009 | 1 CommentTwenty years on from the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, some of the stories of the time are now coming out. The British Foreign Office has published some papers that were written at the time of the reunification of Germany, and they throw an...
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