Let them eat fish
By Richard Laming Published in the Daily Telegraph, 24 December 2004 Sir Peter Neilson of UKIP (letter, Dec 23) may be correct in noting that the landlocked member states of the […]
Setting up a Roadblock
By Richard Laming Published in The Prague Post, 23 December 2004 The future of Europe will move center stage in the next 18 months as the debate about the European constitution
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Running the risk: people power could derail Europe’s future
By Richard Whitman Now that the member states have signed the constitutional treaty, attention turns to the ratification process. States will have to follow national ratification procedures and at least
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European politics comes out of the Commission crisis strengthened
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 22 November 2004 Now that the Barroso Commission has finally received the approval of the European Parliament, it is time to survey the wreckage. Which
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US-EU: the end of the affair
By George Irvin Like millions of other people, I sat up until the morning hours of Wednesday 3 November watching the results of the US election come in, at first
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Guantanamo Bay: a hole in the laws of physics
By Richard Laming The detention camp established by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has become notorious around the world. It is used as a prison camp for prisoners captured
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Mr Buttiglione helps to draft an unwritten chapter to the European constitution
By Peter Sain ley Berry In delivering certain ill-advised remarks to the European Parliament about gay men and straight women, Mr Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian Commissioner designate may turn out
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Why the European constitution should be welcomed
Speech by Brendan Donnelly, Chair of Federal Union, at the European Social Forum, 15 October 2004 The European Constitution is an attempt to codify and improve the workings of the
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Demographic time bomb
By Richard Laming Published in The Prague Post, 30 September 2004 The latest report on Europe’s population trends from the Population Research Bureau in Washington, D.C., makes for challenging reading. Challenging,
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Swiss federalism for Britain?
By Lawrence Fullick British schoolchildren are being invited to study and compare the British and Swiss systems of government using a project pack being sent to secondary schools by the
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