On another planet
Interesting talk from Professor Tim Lang this evening on food security. (Read him on the Quotebank here.) He was spelling out the state of the world’s food supply and suggesting […]
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Should there be a referendum on Europe and, if so, on what question?
The House of Commons will be debating this week the call for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. There are two questions at stake, even if the Speaker in his
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Voluntary cooperation
The fact that the Lisbon treaty is currently going through parliament has given Eurosceptics a new opportunity to object to the fact that the EU is based on supranational institutions
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The retention of the veto
A rather clumsy statement in the House of Commons today by Gisela Stuart, opponent of the Lisbon treaty, on the subject of the location of the European Parliament. It is
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Exposed by the call for a referendum
The squirming of the Eurosceptics in the face of the Liberal Democrat call for a referendum on EU membership tells us a lot about them. The Liberal Democrats themselves, having
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European guilt
I was at a talk today about the history of the state of Israel – this year marks 60 years since it was founded – and I asked about the
Independence for Kosovo
The province of Kosovo emerged from its chrysalis last week as a new state, separate from Serbia of which it was part for so long. It is not yet a
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President Blair?
The news is full at the moment of speculation about whether Tony Blair might be a suitable candidate to be president of the European Council. The post doesn’t exist yet,
William Hague’s problem
A speech on Europe today by Conservative shadow foreign secretary William Hague – you can read it here. His speech in the House of Commons at the opening of the
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Lessons from the Chatham Islands
A visitor to the blog objected to my post on the thrill of power, suggesting that the history of the Chatham Islands provides a counter-argument. With due respect to the
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