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national sovereignty Archive
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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... -
The human rights of a transferred prisoner
Posted on 26/08/2009 | 1 CommentHere is another example of the interaction between criminal justice and national sovereignty. Samantha Orobator was convicted in Laos of possession of heroin and was sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted from the death penalty because she was pregnant. She has been sent back to Britain... -
No need for a tunnel
Posted on 15/05/2009 | 3 CommentsA truly insane news report caught my eye in the Financial Times today, proposing a tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific. (Read the story here.) Bolivia is a landlocked country, and this tunnel plus island combination would restore access to the... -
The case of Binyam Mohamed
Posted on 10/02/2009 | No CommentsI am not going to discuss here the rights and wrongs of the deletion of evidence from the judgment in the case of Binyam Mohamed – the foreign secretary insisted that intelligence material from the United States should not be published by the British courts... -
A conflict of sovereignties
Posted on 24/11/2008 | No CommentsAn unusual article, but a good one, in the First Post by Claire Berlinski worries about the possibility of an oil tanker accident in the Bosphorus, the sea passage between Europe and Asia that runs through the heart of Istanbul. The oil boom in the... -
A sovereign foreign policy
Posted on 21/11/2008 | 1 CommentAn otherwise sensible article by Neil Clark is ruined by his souverainist obsession cropping up again. Neil Clark doesn’t like the EU, and so anything else he doesn’t like will be blamed on the EU if he can possibly manage it. Sometimes that’s fair, often... -
The arrest of Karadzic
Posted on 22/07/2008 | 4 CommentsThe apprehension of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been widely acclaimed as a good thing. There are some, though, who disapprove. There is a group of souverainistes who rate national sovereignty more highly than justice. The idea that someone should be tried in... -
Should we send aid to Burma?
Posted on 12/05/2008 | No CommentsAs the tragic consequences for the people of Burma of Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath become clearer, the contrast between the desperate need for humanitarian aid and the unwillingness of the Burmese government to accept it becomes clearer too. The Americans had to negotiate for... -
What unanimity means
Posted on 12/03/2008 | 2 CommentsEUobserver reports a new threat to the ratification of the Lisbon treaty, arising from the Aaland islands. An autonomous part of Finland, the Aaland government is apparently demanding the same right that Sweden already has to sell snuff. Snuff is banned throughout the EU for...
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