No sooner does this website publish a criticism of the way that national governments behave in the Council of Ministers (read it here) than a cast-iron example emerges of exactly […]
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Labour eurosceptic MP Gisela Stuart convened an interesting debate in Westminster Hall on 16 July about the role of national parliaments in the EU legislative system. Her speech focused on
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Parliaments and the European Union – Representative Democracy after the Lisbon Treaty 6 July 2011, 2pm – 6pm, followed by a reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P
A new pamphlet by Labour MP Denis MacShane, “Europe’s parliament: Reform or perish?”, published by the Centre for European Reform, worries about the decline of public interest in the European
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The judgment by the German constitutional court approving of the Lisbon treaty has been broadly welcomed by pro-Europeans in Germany. (See a commentary by Hans-Jürgen Schlamp on Speigel Online here.)
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Another hurdle in the ratification of the Lisbon treaty was overcome today with the judgment of the German constitutional court that it is not incompatible with the German Basic Law.
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A combination of the expenses scandal in Westminster and the European parliamentary elections is producing a strange outcome in the newspapers. On the one hand, we are told that the
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A report published yesterday by the House of Commons Transport Committee on “Galileo: Recent Developments” has been widely reported because of its criticisms of the project’s cost-effectiveness. (You can find
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By Richard Laming Published in The Observer, 2 May 2004 Giving more power for the European Parliament need not be at the expense of national parliaments (Comment, last week). What about all
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 20 May 2003 A new pressure group launched last week in London raises lots of important questions about the future of democracy, both in the
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