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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.)...
referendum on Europe Archive
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No end to the controversy
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsBrendan 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: “Despite the publicity that has surrounded it, it is very difficult to believe that Mr... -
The Speech
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsSo 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.) David Cameron wants to renegotiate the terms of British membership of the EU and put... -
Prospects for a referendum on Europe
Posted on 15/01/2013 | No CommentsReport 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 plan for a referendum on Europe. All that remains unclear are the question, the timing,... -
Party views of a referendum on Europe
Posted on 16/10/2012 | 2 CommentsThe prospect of a referendum on British membership of the EU continues to hang over British politics. (Federal Union has warned of the reasons why such a referendum might not be as neat and democratic as it sounds here, but there remain plenty of people... -
The referendum in the United Kingdom (21 May 2012)
Posted on 05/04/2012 | No CommentsThe Italian Cultural Institute and the Devolution Club invite you to the Seventh Italian-British Constitutional Conversation on “The referendum in the United Kingdom” Monday 21 May 2012 – 6.00 pm Foreword: Alessandro Torre, Chairman of The Devolution Club Chair: Brendan Donnelly, Director of The Federal... -
A referendum in Greece?
Posted on 04/11/2011 | No CommentsIt is hard, at the time of writing, to know what to make of the suggestion that there should be a referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout agreed by the eurozone governments. The idea was floated by the Greek prime minister George... -
Don’t bind my hands
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsIn the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In a theatrical gesture at a press conference, he declared: “Whether you agree with me, disagree... -
How to make a referendum on Europe fair
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsThere is a debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on whether to hold a referendum on EU membership, called by the eurosceptics who, of course, want Britain to leave. The motion in the House of Commons is non-binding, but nevertheless is an opportunity... -
Who votes for the US president?
Posted on 29/09/2011 | No CommentsThis blog has reported previously on the American presidential election system and the way it represents the country unevenly, by starting the primary process in one small town in Iowa. There is controversy between California and Nevada about another uneven aspect, the way that the... -
Déjà vu all over again
Posted on 25/08/2011 | No CommentsDuring the 1990s, the political debate about Europe in Britain was polluted by Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum party. (I have thought a lot about which verb to use in that previous sentence.) The demand from Sir James was for a referendum on EU...
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