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- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
- If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu - 22/02/2012By Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The...
- Political language - 17/02/2012There is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare...
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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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transport policy Archive
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Flying high
Posted on 01/11/2006 | No CommentsSwitching from climate change to the airline industry, from effect to cause, maybe, my eye was caught by a story in the Financial Times today about Ryanair. It is proposing to take over Aer Lingus, but such is the size of the deal that it... -
Belt up
Posted on 26/09/2006 | No CommentsWhere does European law come from and what is it for? This is something that is regularly debated and argued over in the abstract, as a theoretical notion. Here is an opportunity to take a specific and detailed example. Since Monday 18 September, it has... -
5000 reasons to complete the single market
Posted on 23/08/2005 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 August 2005 Travellers all over Europe found themselves stranded by the collapse of EUJet at the end of last month. Five thousand British holidaymakers enjoying the best that Europe has to offer suddenly found themselves facing the worst. How were... -
London should run its own transport system
Posted on 13/08/2001 | No CommentsIn a democracy, you need a very good reason to deny people something they have voted for. The Labour government has yet to come up with that good reason regarding the tube. For the result of the London-wide election could not have been clearer. The...
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