L is for liberalisation
A fine piece by Dan O’Brien in the Financial Times last Friday about economic liberalisation in the EU. You need a subscription to be able to read it on FT.com, […]
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Non à la précarité
No to insecurity. That’s what the banners say and the demonstrators in Paris are demanding. And it’s hard to disagree. Everyone wants a bit of certainty and a bit of
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Magnificent and typical
Tony Blair’s speech to the Australian parliament earlier today deserves reading. (You can read it here.) It got most attention in the press for its remarks about anti-American feeling in
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Fifty one votes to one
I took part in a debate with leading anti-European John Redwood on Thursday evening in his parliamentary constituency, Wokingham. (You can read my speech here.) We started off a little
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Will the CAP fit?
A very fine speech this evening by Chris Haskins, giving the second UACES Lecture on the future of Europe, on “CAP reform: a watershed for the European Union?” Chris Haskins
A global parliamentary assembly
Professor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so
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MPs and what they think
An e-mail arrives in my in-box (from CommunicateResearch) reporting on another survey on Europe, this time of MPs at Westminster. 85 per cent of Liberal Democrat MPs supported a European
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It was 20 years ago today
The Single European Act was signed in Luxembourg on 17 February 2006. Who would have thought then what kind of European Union would lead to? The EU now has 25
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40 billion pounds
A debate this evening with Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP for London. On the whole it went quite well (you can read my opening remarks here). One thing that was
Capitalism on a habitable planet
Robert Newman used to be funny. Now he’s just laughable. No, I don’t mean that, that’s not fair, there is more to his argument than meets the eye. (He had
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