Gagged
A delegation of MEPs in Singapore complain that they have been prevented from speaking at a meeting on the subject of democracy. The government there objected. Read about it here: […]
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Liam Fox wants to strengthen Nato
Conservative defence spokesman Dr Liam Fox MP has returned to the subject of Nato reform again. It’s an interesting subject, but not necessarily for the reasons he thinks. His complaint
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The price of water
An interesting discussion last week about the preservation of river basins, interesting not from the point of view of hydrogeology (a subject that doesn’t do much for me, I confess)
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Conservative and unionist
My fax machine brings me an article by Bob Walter, the Tory MP for North Dorset. He is proposing a private members bill in the House of Commons that would
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The citizen as consumer
My attention is drawn to a speech earlier this week by Meglena Kuneva, the (first ever) Bulgarian member of the European Commission. I think it is great that Bulgaria is
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Fishing in the Pacific
Two things caught my eye in a report in the Financial Times today about the decline of fish stocks in the Pacific Ocean. (Read the report here.) The first is
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Straws in the wind
Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe there’s a concerted campaign, but there were two articles in the papers today calling for a European foreign policy, coming from unexpected sources. The first, and
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Illegitimate comments
Jack Straw has published at last his proposals on reform of the House of Lords. (You can read about them here). The reform debate has been going on a long
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With reform, Europe can be a force for good
Let’s ban the word “reform”. Who knows what it means? Who could ever be against it? It is like one of those irregular verbs that Craig Brown invents: – My
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Elevated principles
There are times when I wonder whether the debates we have about federalism and the international system really are as novel as we sometimes imagine. Maybe a lot of what
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