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ratification Archive
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Oh shit (again)
Posted on 15/06/2008 | 5 CommentsWe have been here before. Here is what I wrote after the No vote in France three years ago: http://www.federalunion.org.uk/oh-shit/. Much of the same applies now after the Irish No vote. Some facts first of all. The vote in Ireland was 752,451 votes in favour... -
A matter of respect
Posted on 12/03/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming There has been some interesting Eurosceptic criticism lately of the European Parliament’s vote against an amendment “to respect the outcome of the referendum in Ireland” on the Lisbon treaty. But to understand the complaint, we have to ask what it means: to... -
Treaty boost for expanding EU
Posted on 21/01/2008 | No CommentsPublished in The Guardian, 21 January 2008 As supporters of the Coalition for the Reform Treaty we encourage MPs of all political parties to support the bill to ratify the EU reform treaty in its second reading in parliament this week (Comment, January 18). Ratification of... -
Referendum vote
Posted on 20/09/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in the Daily Telegraph, 20 September 2007 Sir, Two referendum questions, on the reform treaty and separately on EU membership, would cause more confusion, not less (Letters, September 19). For how would one implement a decision to reject the treaty but stay in... -
What do the referendum campaigners really want?
Posted on 10/09/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 10 September 2007 Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the people who normally complain the most that the EU is obsessed with its procedures rather than its achievements are the ones demanding a referendum on the Reform... -
What do the referendum campaigners really want?
Posted on 10/09/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the people who normally complain the most that the EU is obsessed with its procedures rather than its achievements are the ones demanding a referendum on the Reform... -
Orderly transition?
Posted on 18/06/2007 | 1 CommentThere is some confusion in the press today about whether or not there will be a referendum in the UK on the successor to the constitutional treaty. Tony Blair has laid out four so-called “red lines”, things he will not budge on in the negotiations.... -
Merkel’s headache
Posted on 14/02/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in The Prague Post, 14 February 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel probably didn’t get the reception she had hoped for when she visited Prague in January. She came to discuss the future of the European constitution, as part of her European tour,... -
Ratification is not an optional extra
Posted on 07/02/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 7 February 2007 Of all the problems with the convention/IGC process that delivered the constitutional treaty, one of the biggest is that it did not deal properly with the process of ratification. There was no recommendation on how ratification should unfold... -
Strategy and action of the UEF
Posted on 17/09/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Based on a speech, given at the Ventotene seminar, 7 September 2006 It is of course a pleasure to come to Ventotene to speak about the strategy and actions of the federalist movement. In many ways, this session is the most important...
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