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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.)...
regulation Archive
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The power of the markets
Posted on 14/09/2012 | No CommentsIt is 20 years ago that the UK fell out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, an important anniversary for both pro-Europeans and their opponents. The opponents of course claim that the failure of the ERM shows that fixed exchange rates between countries are a bad... -
Regulated global markets: an impossible dream? (13 June 2012)
Posted on 18/05/2012 | No Comments13 June 2012 5.30 for 6.00 pm – 8.00pm, followed by a reception National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place London SW1A 2HE Throughout this year, the Federal Trust, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Global Policy Institute are jointly organising a series of panel discussions on... -
When panic-buying makes sense
Posted on 01/04/2012 | 1 CommentThe queues outside petrol stations last week tell us something important about the way politics is conducted in this country (or, for that matter, anywhere else). The lesson is that panic-buying sometimes make sense, which means that the purpose of politics is to prevent the... -
Contorted arguments against EU membership
Posted on 14/11/2011 | 4 CommentsThe benefits of British membership of the European Union are so profound and far-reaching that its opponents have to twist themselves into all kinds of knots in order to try and construct an argument against it. People from either side of the left-right political spectrum... -
Speed kills
Posted on 20/05/2011 | No CommentsYour blogger was required to attend a speed awareness course last night, having been caught by a speed camera two months ago and wanting not to acquire any penalty points. I was expecting some kind of annoying lecture on how bad it is to speed... -
If Libya, why Britain?
Posted on 30/03/2011 | No CommentsIf the first question to ask about the current UN action in North Africa is, why Libya, then the second question is why Britain. If yesterday’s blog entry is correct and there might be a case for action (although note the caveats as well as... -
John Lanchester: action on the banks has to be international
Posted on 18/10/2010 | No CommentsThis new Lehmans scandal sums up two of the biggest problems that we – the voting, taxpaying general public – still have with the banks, almost two years after they blew up and we bailed them out. First, the operation of capital markets is international,... -
The snow reveals as much as it covers
Posted on 14/01/2010 | No CommentsArchaeologists sometimes find that a covering of snow on the landscape can reveal to aerial photography previously unknown features such as barrows and homesteads that in normal weather conditions would not be seen. In a similar way, the covering of snow that has fallen on... -
Reforming the City
Posted on 03/12/2009 | 1 CommentThe appointment of a Frenchman as European commissioner responsible for the City of London has produced ridiculous claims by people who hail it as a victory over Anglo-Saxon capitalism, and ridiculous counter-claims by people who fear it means the end of civilisation as we know... -
Federalism and the financial and economic crisis
Posted on 04/09/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this subject. I should make clear that what I propose to say is not strictly true. I do not think that any economic or political theory can ever be strictly true: what matters is...
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