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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.)...
Scotland Archive
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Can David Cameron save the unions?
Posted on 21/12/2012 | No CommentsThe promise by the prime minister of a new policy on Europe to be outlined in a speech in January rules out most useful comment on the issue between now and then. For the same reason that a referendum on EU membership while the eurozone... -
The forthcoming referendum in Scotland
Posted on 31/10/2012 | 1 CommentDavid Cameron and Alex Salmond agreed earlier this month the terms for the referendum on Scottish independence to be held in the autumn of 2014. Federal Union has been asked what it thinks. It would be outside the scope of this website to take view... -
A warning for fiscal federalism
Posted on 12/07/2012 | No CommentsThe financial crisis claims another victim. The Californian city of San Bernardino is going bankrupt. Its liabilities are rising but its revenues are not, with the result predicted by Mr Micawber. There is a lesson to be learned. Not the obvious one, that governments cannot... -
From the people who brought you electoral reform
Posted on 11/07/2012 | 1 CommentThe government’s plans for reforming the House of Lords are in disarray. A substantial majority – 462 to 124 – in the House of Commons voted for reform but the motion to set out the timetable for the debate was withdrawn in the face of... -
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... -
Can the union be saved? Report on the Federal Union AGM
Posted on 19/03/2012 | 1 CommentFederal Union held its AGM and annual conference on 17 March 2012. The morning session, entitled “Can the European Union be saved?”, looked at the European treaty agreed at the summit earlier this month, and asked whether it embodied the right model for the future... -
Can the union be saved? AGM and annual conference (17 March 2012)
Posted on 03/03/2012 | 1 CommentThe Federal Union AGM and annual conference will be held in London on Saturday 17 March 2012. It will discuss: - the fate of the European Union after the latest treaty - the fate of the Anglo-Scottish union in the light of the forthcoming referendum... -
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... -
A Scottish breakaway
Posted on 11/09/2011 | 1 CommentMurdo Fraser has struck an unusual note in his bid for leadership of the Scottish Conservative party by promising to abolish it. If people in Scotland who were not members of the Conservative party were eligible to vote, he would be far and away the... -
Who speaks for Britain?
Posted on 01/03/2011 | No CommentsMaria Damanaki, European fisheries commissioner There is a seminar to be held next week in London to discuss the nature of the European Union in the light of the ideas of the late historian Alan Milward, who argued that the EU was saving its member...
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