Where is the internet?
Another example of our borderless world takes the form of a lawsuit against Google. Privacy campaigners in the UK protest that the Google search engine ignores the privacy settings in […]
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How the euro protects its members
Previous blogposts (here and here) have written approvingly of the trend to include more foreign-produced value added in a country’s exports. What this means is that the components and parts
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Greece is not integrated enough
A previous post on this blog looked at international trade from the perspective of value added rather than gross exports, that is to say, what proportion of a country’s exports
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What should parking pay for?
Away from the big picture of world trade and globalisation, let’s look at the important issue of parking charges. What should it cost to park a car outside your house?
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What is trade made of?
It is a familiar complaint from eurosceptics that the UK does not trade enough with the countries of east and south east Asia. Membership of the EU has distorted the
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Devolution for the English
Devolution has brought great changes to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but what about England? What do the English get out of it? An article by Sue Cameron in the
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Parliament’s influence on EU legislation goes up in smoke
No sooner does this website publish a criticism of the way that national governments behave in the Council of Ministers (read it here) than a cast-iron example emerges of exactly
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It’s arrived!
The first set of reports from the government’s Balance of Competences (BoC) review emerged yesterday after 9 months gestation to a joyous public reception. The fountains in Trafalgar Square and
Any institution needs its critics
In the furore about reported failings in the National Health Service recently, Daniel Hannan MEP remarked that: Any organisation that is treated as being beyond reproach is bound in time
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Blair or Churchill: who told the truth?
Can Tony Blair really be compared to Winston Churchill? A recent talk by Mr Blair’s former communications chief Alastair Campbell noted that Winston Churchill actively and shamelessly engaged in deception
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