The 33rd Corbishley Lecture will be given by Professor Joseph Weiler on “State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum”, on Wednesday 14 September at 6.30 pm in the House […]
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At the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter
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Given that the death penalty had already effectively been abolished in the UK decades previously (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland), it was uncontroversial in
The coalition government’s latest experiment in direct democracy is a website where people can post epetitions. If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate
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Osama bin Laden making a video at his compound in Pakistan (picture US federal government) The New Yorker carries a fascinating report on the US Navy Seal operation that killed
Elena Salgado, finance minister of Spain (picture www.la-moncloa.es) Never let it be said that this website does not acknowledge the difficulties and contradictions within the federalist case. It spends enough
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Letter in the Independent, 5 July 2011 Mary Ann Sieghart is right to say that the economic policies followed by Britain over the past 10 years would have been even
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 6 July 2011 The case being fought out in the European Court of Justice over the transparency of proceedings in Council working groups shines
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“We lived for many years as a non-sovereign country, under Soviet occupation. For us European integration is not a threat to sovereignty because we experienced not long ago a serious
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At the conference on “A Common Immigration Policy, Freedom of movement of EU Citizens within the EU Member States and the plight of the Roma Community” held at the Friends
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