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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Where next for the constitution?
An interesting discussion yesterday between Andrew Duff and Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat spokespeople on constitutional affairs in the European Parliament and foreign affairs in the House of Commons, respectively. (It
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The European Union as a power for peace
By Emmanouil Vrentzos During the UEF congress in Vienna I participated in the resolution working group titled: “The European Union as a Power for Peace”. Mr. Philip Agathonos (Vice-President of
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Europe v USA: whose economy wins?
By George Irvin Many Europeans are deeply ambivalent about the economic performance of the European Union. “The EU was meant to bring us a golden future, but instead it has
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Who is a European citizen?
By John Parry Introduction The American constitution, which is arguably the most frequently cited federalist model, asserts that “All persons born or naturalised in the United States and subject to
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Fifty one votes to one
I took part in a debate with leading anti-European John Redwood on Thursday evening in his parliamentary constituency, Wokingham. (You can read my speech here.) We started off a little
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MPs and what they think
An e-mail arrives in my in-box (from CommunicateResearch) reporting on another survey on Europe, this time of MPs at Westminster. 85 per cent of Liberal Democrat MPs supported a European
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It was 20 years ago today
The Single European Act was signed in Luxembourg on 17 February 2006. Who would have thought then what kind of European Union would lead to? The EU now has 25
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Blair and the founding fathers
More on Tony Blair’s speech in Oxford last Thursday (which you can read here). He declares that: “The vision is the one I share with Europe’s founders: an ever closer
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Hague in Brussels
William Hague, Conservative shadow foreign secretary, went on a mission to the European Parliament earlier this week looking for partners with whom to form a new centre-right, Eurosceptic political grouping.