The wisdom of crowds
One of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than […]
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Europe
You can’t buck the market
Margaret Thatcher’s famous aphorism echoes down the decades, and is heard nowhere more clearly at present than in Greece. The Greek government is struggling to convince the bond markets that
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Nonsense on asylum
Two types of nonsense on display in the Daily Express today. The spark is a report that 124 illegal immigrants found on a beach in Corsica were set free by
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Different and hostile
Norman Tebbit gets his second mention on the blog this month, with his latest piece on the Telegraph website, “I used to believe Britain had a lot in common with
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A parliament with a purpose
European Alternatives is circulating a petition calling upon the European Parliament to try to attach conditions to its approval of the members of the next European Commission. (You can read
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A healthy surplus
The limitations of small c conservative economics are laid bare by Peter Oborne in the Observer yesterday in his description of the problems facing the eurozone. (Read the article here.)
David Cameron and Zhou Enlai
By Brendan Donnelly The new Conservative policy on the Lisbon treaty and the European Union more generally, announced last week by David Cameron, is a distinctly ambiguous one. This may
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Six pledges by David Cameron
The speech by Conservative leader David Cameron yesterday dropped the previous commitment to a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and replaced it with six pledges that he aims to achieve
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A deal with the Czechs
So, a deal was struck with the Czech Republic to get the Lisbon treaty through. An opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, along Polish and British lines, was added
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Let’s reduce the cost of Europe
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – Back in the 1980s, an important piece of research by Paolo Cecchini looked at the benefits that would be gained by creating the single market, dubbed
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