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- Solving the financial crisis – who pays? - 22/12/2011Federal Union and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust held a discussion on 10 November 2011 about the current financial crisis in the light of the ethics and vision of the...
- Three threats to the euro still remain - 15/12/2011The European Council meeting a week ago was convened with the aim of saving the euro. Agreement was reached at the meeting about a way forward for the EU, even...
- Is Germany doing enough to save the euro? - 13/12/2011Debate at King’s College London, on 12 December 2011, on the subject of “Germany has not taken enough proactive steps to solve the eurozone crisis, despite being at the top...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
- Incident on the A598 - 25/01/2012This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy...
- The Republican opponents of Barack Obama - 13/01/2012The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as...
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Tony Blair Archive
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Tony Blair: Europe needs a leader
Posted on 10/06/2011 | 2 CommentsThis website has long been advocating the view that the European Union needs effective and accountable leadership, most notably during the debates surrounding the European Convention in 2003 that led to the constitutional treaty (and subsequently the Lisbon treaty). See Europe needs an accountable president... -
New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown’s Logic of History (7 April 2011)
Posted on 17/03/2011 | No CommentsYou are invited to the launch of “New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown’s Logic of History”, by Dr Oliver Daddow 7 April 2011, 5.00 – 6.45 pm, followed by a reception Venue: Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Programme:... -
Cameron in Kuwait: a breath of fresh air
Posted on 23/02/2011 | No CommentsBy the standards of Tony Blair’s speeches on the battle for democracy in the Middle East, David Cameron’s speech to the Kuwait National Assembly on Tuesday was a welcome breath of fresh air. Not for him the grand pronouncements and the Manichaean vision; instead, there... -
Too much information
Posted on 26/01/2011 | No CommentsOne has to admire the elegance of Tony Blair’s argument in front of the Chilcot enquiry last Friday. He was recalled to the enquiry after his previous appearance a year ago in order to answer some additional questions, of which the main one related to... -
A journey
Posted on 06/09/2010 | No CommentsTony Blair’s much heralded memoirs published last week, contain a warning about occasions “where we confuse the state with the interests of the people”. Isn’t this the criticism that federalists have been making of the intergovernmental approach to Europe all along? The EU is much... -
The 2003 question about Iran
Posted on 10/02/2010 | 1 CommentOne of Tony Blair’s better lines in his evidence to the Chilcot inquiry on 29 January was that one should not ask the 2003 question about Iraq – how much of a threat was Saddam Hussein then? – but rather the 2010 question: how much... -
A failure of strategy in Iraq
Posted on 29/01/2010 | 2 CommentsI have already reported in an earlier blog entry on the Chilcot inquiry about flaws that emerged in the strategy of using the threat of invasion to press Saddam Hussein to disarm, principally that the military forces deployed to back up this threat could not... -
The language of priorities
Posted on 05/01/2010 | No CommentsAneurin Bevan famously declared at a Labour party conference that “The language of priorities is the religion of socialism”. This will not be a blog post about socialism – I am going to write about Tony Blair instead – but about priorities. There has been... -
Blair vs Juncker for president of the European Council
Posted on 28/10/2009 | 4 CommentsHistorian Simon Schama has a marvellous knack of explaining the big themes of history through the life stories of selected individuals. For example, in his “History of Britain”, he describes the peak and decline of the British empire using the contrasting stories of Winston Churchill... -
Blair for the Commission?
Posted on 22/07/2009 | 1 CommentSometimes the simplest questions are the best ones. I was asked last week, in response to some newspaper suggestions that Tony Blair was being talked about as a possible president of the European Council (a post created by the Lisbon treaty should it come into...
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