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.) […]
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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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Federal Europe or splendid isolation?
3 February 2005 I spoke in a debate yesterday on the subject of “Britain’s destiny: federal Europe or splendid isolation?”. You can guess which side I was on. I don’t
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Delay at the station
30 January 2005 I spent two hours waiting at Waterloo station on Friday evening, delayed by the discovery of a bomb at the Channel Tunnel. It was not
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Brussels or Davos?
Interesting discussion with my local European Movement branch this evening on the role of the European Parliament. Our basic concern was that the full extent of the role of the
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Robert Kilroy-Silk leaves UKIP
So Robert Kilroy-Silk has finally left the UK Independence Party. It’s hardly a surprise – the anti-European parties are going to be prone to splits of this kind. It would
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What’s my motivation here?
One of the things that the pro-European campaign is going to have to establish is the reason for the democratic unification of Europe, and by extension for the European constitution.
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