The position of Federal Union following the meeting of its committee on 10 September 2003 A referendum on the European constitution could serve two functions: to guide parliament on ratification […]
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By Richard Laming Notes for a speech at the Ventotene seminar on 3 September 2003. What is citizenship? A constitution is a contract between citizens as to how they are
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By Adrian Taylor As the Iraq war fades, some repairs need to be made to transatlantic relations. The good news is that Europeans and Americans can probably agree that: i)
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By Keith Best We have been told on innumerable occasions that the world is very different after September 11. Before the phrase creeps into popular mythology we should examine objectively
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By John Roberts For the past 60 years federalists have been advocating the need for a democratic world government. Such advocacy of the urgent need for it was given overwhelming
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By John Williams The world we’re in, by Will Hutton, published by Little, Brown 2002 Re-ordering the world, edited by Mark Leonard, published by The Foreign Policy Centre, 2002 In
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By Fernand Herman, on behalf of the Federalist Voice network Mr Presidents, ladies, gentlemen, honourable members of the Convention You have heard at length from diverse members of civil society
Speech to the European constitutional convention Read More »
By Brendan Donnelly Current discussion of the European Convention’s work and prospects centres around three related topics, namely the ability or otherwise of the Convention to arrive at a consensus
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After the embarrassment of the Nice Summit the heads of state and government were obliged to recognise that the old way of working via government representatives meeting behind closed doors
The Laeken Declaration: the way to a constitution for the citizens of Europe? Read More »
By John Pinder Clarity is needed about a concept that has been so much abused in British politics. A federal polity is simply one with democratic government at two or
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