Happiness
Tolstoy wrote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Perhaps something similar applies to the debate about Europe. All Yes voters are […]
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About Wolfowitz
It seems that Paul Wolfowitz will be accepted as new head of the World Bank, after nomination by President George W Bush. It’s not the place of this website to
Rules
I was at a meeting of the European Movement yesterday to discuss its internal rules. Not the best way to spend a day of glorious sunshine but sometimes an organisation
What makes trade free?
17 March 2005 A regular complaint about the EU, in the comment section of this blog and elsewhere, is that it is unnecessary. All that is needed is free trade,
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What does it mean to be a pro-European?
9 March 2005 I annoy a lot of my opponents in debates by calling them “anti-European”. It is a description they reject, but that does not stop me using it.
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War and European integration
My earlier posting about the causes of war seems to have raised same eyebrows. I promised to explain. The point I made was that previous wars in Europe were caused
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A shot fox
26 February 2005 A debate on Wednesday evening with Marc Glendening of the so-called Democracy Movement. (You may recall a conversation I had with him in an earlier blog entry.)
America’s support for Europe
The visit of President Bush to Europe this week has opened same interesting discussions about what American policy really is towards the EU. In the past, of course, the
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Court politics
An interesting discussion this evening on the subject of sovereignty, a familiar theme to readers of this blog. The speaker was exploring the idea that sovereignty is slipping away from
More on national sovereignty
My comments on national sovereignty in an earlier blog entry seem to have provoked some reactions. Let me try and explain. Think of the Sellafield nuclear reactor on the Cumbrian
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