Legal personality
The British anti-European newspapers are concerned today about the prospect of the European Union acquiring “legal personality” as a result of the next European treaty. This was Article I-7 of […]
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Come on you Reds
The summit taking place later this week is provoking a lot of discussion and activity among the federalists. The central arguments of the campaign by the UEF are that the
Europe’s leaders should copy Bush?
Janet Daley wrote in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week (read it here) that the British people will not “accept rule by unelected continental bureaucracy and ministerial fiat, which is
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The leadership of the World Bank
Here is a thought about the proposed new president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick. He is expected to take over from Paul Wolfowitz, who is being driven out of
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A good man in Africa
The latest stage in Tony Blair’s farewell tour – his speech in South Africa last Thursday – is one of the most frustrating. (Read the speech here.) It is one
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What’s in a name
Interesting to see that the new Scottish Nationalist administration in Edinburgh has adopted the term “government” to describe itself. The previous Labour administration was always coy about the term: it
Shortcuts
If anyone out there is puzzled by the complicated nature of the European Union institutions, this latest report by the BBC isn’t going to help. Referring to the Commission as
EC action
A written answer in the House of Commons yesterday: EC Action Mr. Hayes: To ask the Prime Minister on which occasions in the last 12 months he has met representatives
Free speech
Are there two European Unions? The way in which a decision by the Council of Ministers on the fight against racism and hate speech was reported in the newspapers yesterday
Every country is different
I write this in Munich – I am here for the Federal Committee of the UEF. The UEF FC brings together people from many different countries, all federalist and pro-European
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