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transparency Archive
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What does the Manifesto Club propose instead?
Posted on 08/12/2008 | 1 CommentA new publication denounces the European Union’s Brussels establishment (or perhaps that should read Establishment) for its contemptuous attitude towards the public. Bruno Waterfield and Chris Bickerton are critical of the way in which the EU institutions represent the member state governments and enable them... -
How Europe takes financial decisions
Posted on 07/10/2008 | No CommentsThe Daily Telegraph kindly published a letter from me today on the unfolding financial crisis, but edited it so as to delete the main point I was trying to make. I was responding to an article by Janet Daley that criticised the secrecy of the... -
Transparency works both ways
Posted on 30/01/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 30 January 2008 The meeting in London on Tuesday between the government leaders of Europe’s biggest economies called for more transparency in the financial institutions, as a response to the current economic turmoil around the world. It is easy to... -
News from Lisbon about the new treaty
Posted on 19/10/2007 | 2 CommentsA report from the House of Commons European Scrutiny committee earlier this month complained about the procedure that had been followed in drawing up the new Reform Treaty. It objected to “an essentially secret drafting process conducted by the Presidency, with texts produced at the... -
Europe’s leaders should copy Bush?
Posted on 14/06/2007 | No CommentsJanet Daley wrote in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week (read it here) that the British people will not “accept rule by unelected continental bureaucracy and ministerial fiat, which is alien to their history.” Quite right, but who is asking them to? Taking “ministerial fiat”... -
With reform, Europe can be a force for good
Posted on 04/02/2007 | No CommentsLet’s ban the word “reform”. Who knows what it means? Who could ever be against it? It is like one of those irregular verbs that Craig Brown invents: - My reforms represent traditional values in a modern setting - You wish in retrospect you had... -
Diplomacy
Posted on 12/11/2006 | No CommentsAn interesting talk yesterday by Carne Ross, formerly of the Foreign Office and now acting as an “Independent Diplomat”. (You can read about him here) He had an engaging and powerful case to make, and an engaging and powerful style with which to make it.... -
Bring me sunshine
Posted on 10/10/2006 | 2 CommentsYou’ve got to admire the slogan. “Let sunshine win the day.” Just when David Cameron was being accused of lacking policies and substance, he pulls this one out of the hat and confounds all his critics. Suddenly, all those political forces supporting showers or demanding... -
How the EU can communicate better
Posted on 04/10/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 4 October 2006 The European Commission’s consultation on its communication policy is a landmark event. No longer can the Commission be accused of being a remote, isolate bureaucracy. Its consultation was seeking opinions on how it should engage with the wider... -
Not enough openness in the Council, yet
Posted on 14/07/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 14 July 2006 The broadcast of the ECOFIN meeting live on the web yesterday (Tuesday 11 July) was a welcome innovation in transparency within the EU, but there is some way to go before it becomes must-see TV. The agreement is...
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