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national sovereignty Archive
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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... -
Failure at Copenhagen
Posted on 21/12/2009 | 1 CommentThey say that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result each time. 193 national governments were represented at the Copenhagen climate talks hoping to find unanimous agreement on how to fight climate change.... -
Expats and MPs
Posted on 02/11/2009 | No CommentsPresident Sarkozy has floated the idea of having French MPs to represent French people abroad. There are hundreds of thousands of French citizens living in the UK – London is now the seventh largest French city – and they currently have little voice in French...
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