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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
- Federal Union held its AGM and annual conference on 17 March 2012. The morning session, entitled “Can the European Union be saved?”, looked at the European treaty agreed at the...
- 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...
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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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Wales Archive
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A federal Europe in the making? (7 December 2011)
Posted on 18/11/2011 | No CommentsA Federal Europe in the Making? Europe 2020, the European Semester and the Euro Plus Pact – A Half-Day Conference Wednesday 7th December 2011, 09.45-14.00 The Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay Over the last 18 months the European Union and its Member States have faced unprecedented... -
B is for Beckett
Posted on 22/10/2006 | 2 CommentsI was in Cardiff at the end of last week, visiting some officials in the Welsh Assembly Government and going down to Cardiff Bay to see the Assembly itself. There is something noble about the National Assembly for Wales, set up only in 1999. Wales... -
The centralising curse of UK Treasury rules
Posted on 04/05/2006 | No CommentsBy George Irvin Britain’s public finance is highly centralised by the standards of the European Union and the OECD. The degree to which tax revenue is centralised is far higher here than in Germany, Spain or even France. Council tax accounts for only a fifth... -
The second elections in Scotland and Wales: issues and verdicts
Posted on 14/05/2003 | No CommentsBy Professor Stanley Henig The elections for a second Scottish Parliament and a second Welsh Assembly on 1 May 2003 were each contested by four principal parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and SNP/Plaid Cymru. Other participants were the Green Party and the Scottish Socialist Party... -
Why Wales needs a Parliament
Posted on 05/12/2001 | No CommentsIt is nearly a quarter of a century since I last made a speech in this institution. This University has a fine record in offering educational opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and as a former president of the students’ union I am very happy... -
Steps towards federalism in the UK
Posted on 01/03/2001 | No CommentsBy Ernest Wistrich The election of a Labour government in 1997 signalled the start of major constitutional reform. Until then the United Kingdom had operated one of Europe’s most centralised systems of government. The constitutional changes proposed in the Labour party manifesto ranged from the...
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