On 10 February 2014 the Vice-President of the European Commission, Vivianne Reding, will attend a Citizens’ Dialogue event in Central London. This town-hall style event provides an opportunity to come […]
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Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB 11.00am – 4.00pm The Federal Trust is part of the LISBOAN network, an association of academic organizations and thinktanks, co-sponsored by
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A nation, famously, is a group of people who think of themselves as a nation. They may have other things in common – a language, a religion, a state –
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Earlier in the year, I spoke at a Federal Trust conference on European citizenship and specifically the British perspective on the issue. The slides from the presentation I gave are
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For a report on the conference organised by the Federal Trust on 20 January 2011, click here: Conference_Report_20th_Jan_2011 The speakers were: Georgia Georgiadou, policy officer from the Citizenship Unit of the Directorate
Writing on the website Public Service Europe, Richard Laming said: “When thinking about the modern-day European Union, it is not enough just to think about the institutions in Brussels or
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Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB 2.00 – 5.30 pm followed by a drinks reception This fourth conference in a series undertaken jointly with the Global Policy
One of the unexpected consequences of having set up this website is the frequent enquiries coming in to Federal Union from people looking for help. The internet isn’t just for
Local elections yesterday. I spent a few hours knocking up, that is going to visit supporters of the party in their homes to remind them to go out to vote.
By John Parry Introduction The American constitution, which is arguably the most frequently cited federalist model, asserts that “All persons born or naturalised in the United States and subject to
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