Published in The Times, 22 September 2004 By Richard Laming Sir, The hegemony of Nazi-ruled Europe was not federalist (letter, September 18) but nationalist. The Europe of the 1930s was uniting not by […]
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Brussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that
Richard Laming spoke at the Ventotene seminar in September 2004 about European governance and the nature and the future of the European Union. “I think it is important to be
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 15 July 2004 After the excitement of the European elections, the approval of the constitution text and the nomination of a candidate for president of
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By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 3 July 2004 Sir, John Szemerey (Letters, June 26) proposes that candidates for president of the European Commission should contest the European elections,
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By John Williams A review of: The president of good and evil: taking George W Bush seriously” by Peter Singer (Granta Books, 2004) “Plan of attack” by Bob Woodward (Simon
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This document describes the “legal black hole” created by the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and outlines some political actions that might be taken to address the problem. Nothing
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By Richard Laming During the debate about whether there should be a referendum on the European constitution in Britain, it was not possible to be sure what the British constitutional
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The draft European constitution proposed by the European constitutional convention and currently under discussion in the IGC marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. Each successive
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Debate at the AGM on 13 March 2004 introduced by Stephen Haseler It is not possible to separate the debate about European unity from the question of the transatlantic relationship.
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