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subsidiarity Archive
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The life you can save
Posted on 24/07/2009 | No CommentsA new book by philosopher Peter Singer asks some awkward questions about the moral obligation to give to the poor. Peter Singer has for years examined the limits of what one person might be expected to do for another – he is here interested in... -
More powers for Brussels!
Posted on 20/06/2009 | No CommentsIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the European Union has too many powers. Politicians from across the political spectrum call for “reform” to reverse what they claim is an ever-centralising trend. Of course, there is no logic in the argument that a test of... -
Small economies can ride out the economic storm
Posted on 22/05/2009 | No CommentsThe Financial Times reported on an interesting study by the Lausanne Institute for Management Development yesterday, looking at the resilience of national economies, large and small. Read the report here. The study found that, on the whole, smaller countries were better able to adapt themselves... -
Repaying student loans
Posted on 26/02/2009 | No CommentsA news report from the BBC today reveals that growing numbers of students from other EU countries are not repaying their loans to the British Student Loans Company. (Read the report here.) What is going on? The starting point is that, under EU free movement... -
Environmental standards: who decides?
Posted on 26/01/2009 | No CommentsA happy day when the same interesting issue arises in two separate news stories. First, over in America, President Obama is supposedly about to change the rules on the regulation of vehicle emissions. (Read about this here.) George W Bush’s policy was that states were... -
Is Heathrow airport getting too big
Posted on 16/01/2009 | No CommentsA major transport initiative such as the proposed new runway and terminal building at Heathrow airport, announced yesterday, provoke mixed feelings from a federalist perspective. Aside from the considerations of carbon dioxide emissions, which aren’t really within the scope of this blog, there is the... -
The future of federalism
Posted on 08/09/2008 | No CommentsDiscussion at the Federal Union seminar on 6 September 2008 What has federalism achieved in the UK, Europe and the world? What is its future agenda? How are these issues connected? Michael Burgess, Professor of Federal Studies at the University of Kent, opened the seminar... -
Which government for Europe? Some reflections on the idea of limited government
Posted on 30/08/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming In the discussion about the future government of Europe, I want to offer a few remarks not on what the EU should do, but on what it should not do. I think that this is just as important a question. This is... -
Plan D – limits to Europe
Posted on 09/12/2007 | 1 CommentI write this from the closing session at the European Commission’s Plan D wrap-up conference, looking at the concluding remarks that were circulated. The Plan D project involved a series of consultation exercises across Europe during 2007, and various selection procedures have produced a set... -
Brussels’ glaring stupidity
Posted on 13/10/2007 | No CommentsRead an exchange in the Financial Times between Matthew Engel and Professor Tim Buthe, of the Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, on the way in which technical standards are set in the EU and in the United States. 071013ft
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