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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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- 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...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
human rights Archive
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Reform of the European Court of Human Rights (22 February 2012)
Posted on 10/02/2012 | No CommentsWednesday 22 February 2012 in Europe House, Smith Square, Westminster. 16.00 – 16.05 Introduction by Dr. Martyn Bond, Visiting Professor of European Politics and Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London, author of The Council of Europe: Structure, History, Issues, and UK Press Correspondent for... -
The European Court of Human Rights: What’s at stake? (8 December 2011)
Posted on 01/12/2011 | No CommentsThe European Parliament Office in the UK and the European Institute of University College London in cooperation with the National Council of Voluntary Organizations Invite you to the Annual Sakharov Prize Debate on Human Rights: “The European Court of Human Rights: What’s at stake?” Thursday... -
Are the EU and its member states meeting their human rights obligations? (12 December 2011)
Posted on 24/11/2011 | No CommentsMonday 12 December 2011 Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU 9.30 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote speakers : Thomas Hammarberg Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe Shami Chakrabarti Director of Liberty Takis Tridimas Professor of EU Law, Queen Mary College,... -
Study visit to three courts on the continent (5-8 December 2011)
Posted on 24/08/2011 | No CommentsThe European Atlantic Movement www.european-atlantic.org.uk Registered Charity No 306950 An Educational Foundation for promoting understanding of World Affairs and of the Institutions of International Co-operation. President: Lord Watson of Richmond , CBE Chairman: Laurence Smy TEAM STUDY VISIT TO THREE COURTS ON THE CONTINENT The... -
“State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum” (14 September 2011)
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe 33rd Corbishley Lecture will be given by Professor Joseph Weiler on “State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum”, on Wednesday 14 September at 6.30 pm in the House of Lords by kind courtesy of WPCT Patrons Lord Tomlinson and Lord Williamson, and with... -
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. ... -
Statewatching Europe – civil liberties, the state and the European Union (25 June 2011)
Posted on 09/05/2011 | No CommentsEuropean Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Institutions £30: (Institutions wanting to book places and needing an invoice please send an e-mail to: office@statewatch.org with: CONFERENCE:... -
Should prisoners have the right to vote?
Posted on 07/02/2011 | 6 CommentsThere will be a debate in the House of Commons later this week on whether people sentenced to prison should have the right to vote. The issue comes up because the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the current situation which is that... -
The Council of Europe and human rights
Posted on 22/11/2010 | No CommentsA review of “The Council of Europe and Human Rights” by Martyn Bond (Council of Europe Publishing, 2010) In 1988 a British army special forces unit acting on information from intelligence reports tracked a group of three known Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists to Gibraltar... -
Barry Tempest: to its credit, the European Union has adopted the Convention as a condition of EU membership
Posted on 12/11/2009 | No CommentsThe claim about the “totally alien form of justice” is just plain wrong … the erroneous belief that European forms of justice are somehow at fundamental variance with British traditions has gained some currency, and it creates entirely unnecessary unease. As part of the Second...
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