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- What future for Libya? - 13/01/2012By John Parry Civil wars can be the most vicious form of conflict as recent events in Libya have demonstrated. The Benghazi-based rebels’ swift victory, achieved with Nato air support,...
- Federal Union review of 2011 - 09/01/2012Last year was dominated by the crisis in the eurozone. It dominated the debate about the future of European integration, obviously, but has also turned out to be a major...
- Is the time right for a new world order? - 19/12/2011The answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more...
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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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The Republican opponents of Barack Obama
Posted on 13/01/2012 | No CommentsThe 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 the Democrat nominee.) Although Federal Union is a British organisation, it is firmly of the... -
Is war really in decline?
Posted on 19/08/2011 | No CommentsIt is worth reading an article in Foreign Policy magazine by Joshua S Goldstein on the future of warfare, “Think Again: War”. Writing for an American audience, Professor Goldstein notes that in the past decade there have been fewer wars and fewer deaths in war... -
Federal Union AGM (19 March 2011)
Posted on 17/03/2011 | No CommentsFederal Union AGM and conference - 19 March 2011 Federal Union’s annual conference will look at two subjects: - The future of the eurozone – can it survive the current financial crises, and what does this mean for Britain? - The rise of China and what... -
Neo-con nonsense
Posted on 28/01/2011 | 3 CommentsThis website posted in the Quotebank yesterday some comments made by the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, regarding the British relationship with the EU. (Read them here.) He said that “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished... -
Louis Susman: “all key issues must run through Europe”
Posted on 27/01/2011 | 1 CommentRemarks by Louis Susman, America’s ambassador to the UK, at the European Parliament, 25 January 2011: “I want to stress that the UK needs to remain in the EU. “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished in any way.... -
Federal Union review of 2010
Posted on 07/01/2011 | No CommentsA review of 2010 from the perspective of federalism must surely start with the difficulties in the eurozone. The creation of the euro was the most dramatic and substantial step in the history of European unity, which means that talk now of the eurozone breaking... -
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence?
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 CommentSouverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be told how to defend itself. Brussels, for example, should keep out. So surely the intervention... -
Two points about Afghanistan
Posted on 11/11/2009 | 2 CommentsGeorge W Bush won the 2000 presidential election arguing that America should turn away from the nation-building efforts that had characterised Bill Clinton’s foreign policy and focus more narrowly on specifically American interests around the world. His immediate focus was China, which he saw as... -
Radoslaw Sikorski: Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world
Posted on 20/09/2009 | No Comments“Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world. We don’t want the European Union to become a “super-state”, but we do want it to be more effective. We support building a more federal... -
The special relationship
Posted on 11/02/2009 | No CommentsAn interesting debate in Westminster Hall yesterday on the United States of America included an interesting exchange of views between two Conservative MPs, Mark Pritchard (who introduced the debate) and Mark Field. (Read the debate here.) Mark Pritchard, who is a fairly mainstream Eurosceptic, extolled...
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