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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...
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.)...
national sovereignty Archive
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Another corporate tax dodge
Posted on 05/04/2012 | No CommentsThis is, I suppose, the time of year for things to come back to life, and stories of corporate tax avoidance are among them. It is reported this morning that online retailer Amazon pays no corporation tax on profits in the UK, despite sales revenue... -
The national interest in Syria
Posted on 11/02/2012 | 1 CommentForeign secretary William Hague has been outspoken in his criticism of Russia and China for their position on the conflict in Syria. Those two permanent members of the UN Security Council vetoed a resolution that would have increased the pressure on the Syrian regime; instead,... -
Alive and kicking
Posted on 19/09/2011 | 6 CommentsA very interesting comment here by Centre for European Reform chief economist Simon Tilford, wondering whether the national governments of the member states of the eurozone have got what it takes for the eurozone to survive. He is very worried that they have not. They... -
Donald Tusk: European integration is not a threat to sovereignty
Posted on 01/07/2011 | No Comments“We lived for many years as a non-sovereign country, under Soviet occupation. For us European integration is not a threat to sovereignty because we experienced not long ago a serious threat to our sovereignty.” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, 1 July 2011 Reported at http://euobserver.com/9/32578/?rk=1 -
Neo-con nonsense
Posted on 28/01/2011 | 3 CommentsThis website posted in the Quotebank yesterday some comments made by the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, regarding the British relationship with the EU. (Read them here.) He said that “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished... -
Patriotic sentiments
Posted on 26/10/2010 | No CommentsThe collision between national sovereignty and democracy got another illustration today, this time courtesy of the justice minister of India. Arundhati Roy, the novelist, faces the prospect of prosecution for having declared that Kashmir was not an integral of India. The status of Kashmir is... -
The state of the union
Posted on 08/09/2010 | No CommentsYou can read President Barroso’s “State of the Union” address, that he gave yesterday, here. He did not utter the words of the American president each year, that “The state of our union is strong!” He did not dare. For the state of the European... -
The regulation of sovereign debt
Posted on 03/06/2010 | No CommentsEconomic commentator Anatole Kaletsky wrote an interesting article comparing sovereign debt with banking debt (read it here), but I am not sure that he is reconciled to the consequences. Anatole Kaletsky famously called for a bail-out of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, saying that the... -
Britain should invite in election monitors
Posted on 05/05/2010 | 1 CommentThe spread of democratic elections around the world after the end of the cold war was accompanied by the spread of election monitoring. The practice of allowing the quantity of Xs or numbers on the ballot papers to decide who should be in government is... -
Nonsense on asylum
Posted on 26/01/2010 | No CommentsTwo types of nonsense on display in the Daily Express today. The spark is a report that 124 illegal immigrants found on a beach in Corsica were set free by French judges rather than held in detention. It is thought likely by police and charity...
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