The Irish vote today
The Irish people vote on the fate of the Lisbon treaty today: British eyes are looking west to see what they will decide. One of the founding principles of the […]
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Europe
Building European democracy
By Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – You can tell a lot about a political system from the buildings it erects to house its decision-makers. They provide a literally concrete
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Symbol of a closed order
A news story in EUobserver last week on the plans for a new building for the Council of Ministers reminded me of the issues we raised the last time the
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Subsidiarity man
I was delighted to find in an old collection of papers this cartoon: it appeared in The Independent some time in 1991, I think, when the term “subsidiarity” first made
European election results finally published
I wrote on this blog at the end of June asking who had won the European elections. The figures on seats won were quickly announced, but it has taken longer
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Barroso deserves to be re-elected
By Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – If all goes according to schedule, Jose Manuel Barroso will be confirmed in office this week for a second term as president of
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Home truths about abroad
The judgment by the German constitutional court approving of the Lisbon treaty has been broadly welcomed by pro-Europeans in Germany. (See a commentary by Hans-Jürgen Schlamp on Speigel Online here.)
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EU fishing policy to become more federal
The blog has observed before the problems facing the fishing industry. The ability of the fishing fleets to catch fish has been outstripping the ability of the marine environment to
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What does the European Parliament do?
Following on from the interesting remarks by Vaclav Klaus reported in this blog yesterday, it is interesting to look at the Civitas factsheet on the European Parliament. (Civitas is a
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Ceteris paribus
The title is a Latin phrase used in economics which means “all other things being equal”. The prediction of what difference any specific alteration to economic policy will make is