Immobility
The dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of […]
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A blanket of whiteness
As a blanket of whiteness spreads across the country, so too do strikes and protests against the employment of foreign workers. The anti-European free market right is enjoying the discomfort
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Some facts about fishing
Apparently, there was a campaign launch today by the Taxpayers Alliance, protesting against the EU’s common fishing policy. There are a lot of things wrong with that policy, to be
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Gordon Brown gets something right
Amid the daily assaults on him in parliament and in the media, Gordon Brown can at least take comfort in some praise today on this blog. He is reported on
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Environmental standards: who decides?
A happy day when the same interesting issue arises in two separate news stories. First, over in America, President Obama is supposedly about to change the rules on the regulation
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Ceteris paribus
The title is a Latin phrase used in economics which means “all other things being equal”. The prediction of what difference any specific alteration to economic policy will make is
Sovereign debt
The latest news about the British public finances takes me back to one of the questions asked in the Federal Union membership leaflet: “Why are the world’s poorest countries saddled
Welcome back, Ken Clarke
Following Peter Mandelson back to the front line of politics in the UK is Ken Clarke, to be appointed Conservative business spokesman today. If Peter Mandelson was said to cast
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Is Heathrow airport getting too big
A major transport initiative such as the proposed new runway and terminal building at Heathrow airport, announced yesterday, provoke mixed feelings from a federalist perspective. Aside from the considerations of
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Is there a war on terror?
British foreign secretary David Miliband has declared, in a change to what was understood to be previous policy, that the UK is not involved in a war on terror. (Read
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