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legitimacy Archive
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The law is an ass
Posted on 26/11/2008 | 1 CommentAmid European rejoicing about the restoration of multilateralism to the White House in the recent American presidential election, an interesting corrective is published in the Wall Street Journal. Law professors Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner examine the European record on adhering to international law and... -
UEF welcomes success of the One Seat campaign reaching 1 million signatures
Posted on 19/09/2006 | No Comments19 September 2006 “It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. As a citizen of the European Union, I want the European Parliament to be located only in Brussels.” This is what it states on... -
Where next for the European Union?
Posted on 20/03/2006 | No CommentsBy Brendan Donnelly In discussing the future of the European Union, we have to start by acknowledging that there is a substantial and probably growing unease in the relationship between the European Union and its citizens. This unease has most recently been illustrated in the... -
The democratic credentials of the new European Union: does the Constitution increase the EU’s democratic legitimacy?
Posted on 03/09/2004 | No CommentsBrussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that there are issues too big for an individual country to solve on its own. European integration... -
Sidelined in Berlin
Posted on 18/02/2004 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 February 2004 When Gerhard Schröder, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair gather in Berlin today for their trilateral summit, everyone will be remarking on how well they have patched up their differences since the war in Iraq. This is certainly...
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