EU citizenship
One of the unexpected consequences of having set up this website is the frequent enquiries coming in to Federal Union from people looking for help. The internet isn’t just for […]
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Natural modesty
An excellent speech by President Barroso this evening at Chatham House, in the Third Hugo Young Memorial Lecture. (The speech was trailed in the Guardian this morning here and reported
Foreign oil
Another thing about the Al Gore film “An inconvenient truth” that needs to be written about. This point annoyed me quite a lot when I saw the film – the
Inconvenience
I went to see Al Gore’s disaster movie about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Unusually for a disaster movie, maybe, it focuses not on the disaster as it unfolds but
Re-enactment
Strange report on the BBC this morning, of a historical re-enactment of the Battle of Jena. (You can read it here.) It might be a spectacular pageant, but the BBC
Bring me sunshine
You’ve got to admire the slogan. “Let sunshine win the day.” Just when David Cameron was being accused of lacking policies and substance, he pulls this one out of the
Another comparison with America
Comparing Europe and America is all the rage right now: can Europe stand up to America, should it take a leading role, that kind of thing. Here is a different
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Sarkozy speaks
David Cameron is not the only centre-right pretender to government office. Across the Channel in France, Nicolas Sarkozy appears to be making ground as a leading contender in the French
Banging on about Europe
David Cameron, speaking at the start of the Tory party conference this week in Bournemouth, called for people to stop “banging on about Europe”. Sorry, David, that’s not really me.
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Belt up
Where does European law come from and what is it for? This is something that is regularly debated and argued over in the abstract, as a theoretical notion. Here is