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Latest News
- 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.)...
Switzerland Archive
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Relations between the EU and Switzerland (19 April 2012)
Posted on 01/04/2012 | No CommentsThe Ambassador of Switzerland, Mr Anton Thalmann, in association with Federal Union, requests the pleasure of your company at a talk on “Switzerland – EU Relations” at the Ambassador’s Residence on Thursday 19 April 2012, from 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm Ambassador’s Residence, 21 Bryanston... -
A German decision that sets back Europe
Posted on 11/11/2011 | No CommentsNews reaches me of a rather strange decision by the German constitutional court regarding the elections to the European Parliament. The ruling is forcing a change in the way in which Germany elects its MEPs. The decision is strange not because it is inconsistent with... -
Is it time to leave the EU?
Posted on 23/09/2011 | No CommentsI spoke at a debate earlier this week organised by the Spectator, with the subject of “Is it time to leave the EU?”; naturally, I was against the motion. Also on our side were Denis MacShane MP and Phillip Souta, director of Business for New... -
Europe without the euro
Posted on 08/08/2011 | 1 CommentIf eurozone member states such as Greece have allowed their domestic costs to rise and their economies to become uncompetitive, there is a long hard road back to competitiveness again. Reforms are needed in their labour markets, and there are many inefficiencies in transport, energy... -
It wasn’t a vote about architecture
Posted on 05/12/2009 | No CommentsThe timing could not have been better. The fallout of the Conservative decision not to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty now that it has come into force, and not to hold a referendum on any other European question either until new proposals come... -
Swiss federalism for Britain?
Posted on 25/09/2004 | No CommentsBy Lawrence Fullick British schoolchildren are being invited to study and compare the British and Swiss systems of government using a project pack being sent to secondary schools by the Swiss Embassy. There is a competition in which schools are invited to enter teams in...
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