The law is an ass
Amid European rejoicing about the restoration of multilateralism to the White House in the recent American presidential election, an interesting corrective is published in the Wall Street Journal. Law professors […]
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Covenant or contract
One of the things that has been hard to explain in the debate about the European constitution is the nature of the change that it represents. On the one hand,
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A conflict of sovereignties
An unusual article, but a good one, in the First Post by Claire Berlinski worries about the possibility of an oil tanker accident in the Bosphorus, the sea passage between
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A sovereign foreign policy
An otherwise sensible article by Neil Clark is ruined by his souverainist obsession cropping up again. Neil Clark doesn’t like the EU, and so anything else he doesn’t like will
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The EU gets the wrong farm deal
EU farm ministers never tire of discussing the Common Agricultural Policy. The latest negotiations concluded in the early hours of Thursday morning, over the so-called CAP healthcheck. The aim was
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Fall-out from the banking crash
A debate in the House of Commons yesterday identifies some interesting phenomena as a result of the banking crisis and the moves against the Icelandic banks last month. The debate
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What Barack Obama does next
The newspapers and airwaves, having speculated and then reported on the outcome of the US election, are now speculating about what it means. The biggest significance will be for American
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A moment of goodwill
A notable characteristic of American foreign policy has been the extent of continuity from one president to the next. There are exceptions, of course, but fewer than you might think.
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Britain’s Eurosceptic press
A response to my complaints about Euroscepticism in the press has asked, not unreasonably, what I would do instead. Should there be some kind of regulation? At present, there is
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Hearts and minds
Returning like the dog in the proverb to the speech last week by new Europe minister Caroline Flint, the conclusion reads: “My aim is not to make people love the