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Latest News
- 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
- 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.)...
Libya Archive
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What future for Libya?
Posted on 13/01/2012 | No CommentsBy John Parry Civil wars can be the most vicious form of conflict as recent events in Libya have demonstrated. The Benghazi-based rebels’ swift victory, achieved with Nato air support, resulted in the capture and assassination of Colonel Gaddafi while also destroying much of the... -
Lessons for Syria
Posted on 17/10/2011 | No CommentsThis blog warned earlier in the year about the stretching of the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, 1973, that authorised a no-fly zone and led to regime change. Was this what Russia and China (not to mention India and Brazil) all abstained over? Would... -
The implications for Europe of the Arab Awakening (20 September 2011)
Posted on 24/08/2011 | No CommentsLiberal Democrat European Group fringe meeting, in association with Liberal International British Group. Jurys Inn Hotel, Birmingham, Tuesday 20 September. 20.00 – 21.15, confirmed speakers include Edward McMillan-Scott MEP and Professor Paul Reynolds, currently advising liberal politicians in Egypt prior to their elections, and Robert... -
Lessons from Libya
Posted on 22/08/2011 | 1 CommentIt looks as if Colonel Gaddafi is losing his battle for control in Libya, something this website is not sorry about. It is a victory for the rebels, and a victory of a sort for the countries that supported them, by providing air cover for... -
The Arab Spring and the West: the future of democracy in the Middle East and partnership with the EU (2 June 2011)
Posted on 19/05/2011 | No CommentsOrganised by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation London and the Global Policy Institute Speakers: Professor Fawaz Gerges (LSE) and Professor George Joffe (GPI, Cambridge and RUSI) 2 June 2011, 5.30 pm at Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB (Please follow this link for information on... -
Moral right
Posted on 18/04/2011 | No CommentsFormer head of the army, Lord Dannatt, says to the BBC that: “If we thought that Gaddafi had lost the moral right to rule this country a month ago, he has lost it in the last 24 hours, that’s for sure.” But when did Colonel... -
If Libya, why Britain?
Posted on 30/03/2011 | No CommentsIf the first question to ask about the current UN action in North Africa is, why Libya, then the second question is why Britain. If yesterday’s blog entry is correct and there might be a case for action (although note the caveats as well as... -
Taking sides in Libya
Posted on 29/03/2011 | 1 CommentI listened to Green MP Caroline Lucas on the radio today explaining why she had voted against the resolution in the House of Commons endorsing military action in Libya. She supported the no fly zone, she said, but objected to the fact that the UN... -
The dawn of democracy in the Arab world
Posted on 28/02/2011 | 1 CommentBy Lucio Levi After the fall of the fascist regimes in Mediterranean Europe, in Latin America and in Asia and after the fall of the communist regimes in the big region that for fifty years was under the control of the Soviet Union, now the... -
Who needs Wikileaks?
Posted on 11/02/2011 | 3 CommentsWho needs Wikileaks when we’ve got Sir Gus O’Donnell? His report into the background to the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 was published on 7 February and tells an interesting story. The UK government had...
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