Mortgaged to the Yanks
A documentary on BBC4 last night about the debt that Britain racked up after the second world war borrowing money from the Americans. The presenter was Sir Christopher Meyer, former […]
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Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project?
By Kalypso Nicolaïdis Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project? According to myth, it is the path to the Grail that matters. So for the quest
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Margot Wallström on The consequences of the lack of a European Constitution
That’s why we remain committed to the principles and values of the Constitution. Your committee is well aware that the issues addressed by the Constitution have not gone away. The
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Why is the constitutional treaty so long and complicated?
A very interesting seminar today on the future of the constitutional treaty. A full report will follow soon in the news section of the website, but here are some quick
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Flying high
Switching from climate change to the airline industry, from effect to cause, maybe, my eye was caught by a story in the Financial Times today about Ryanair. It is proposing
European political parties
There’s a new initiative to try and create European political parties. This one comes from Denmark, and the aim is to establish a notion of individual membership at the European
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The constitutional treaty explained: Legal personality for the EU
One objective of the European constitution is to simplify the institutional system. A current complication is the pillar structure, whereby different legislative and institutional routes are used according to the
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The constitutional treaty explained: A double-hatted foreign minister
At present, responsibility for EU foreign policy is divided between the Council of Ministers (foreign policy in its traditional sense), whose High Representative for Foreign Affairs is Javier Solana, and
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The constitutional treaty explained: The citizens’ initiative
In every European country, the national constitution sets out procedures whereby draft laws are proposed by the government and approved by the national parliament. In some countries, such as Italy
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The European economy in 2046
Based on a speech by Richard Laming, member of the UEF Executive Bureau and Director of Federal Union, at the Hertenstein seminar, 23 September 2006. (Read this article as a
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