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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Europe
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.
The dream of Rome
It’s taken me two days to get over watching Boris Johnson on the subject of the Roman empire before I could sit down to write a blog entry about it.
Gas
There is a new trade war in Europe, between Russia and the Ukraine over the cost of gas. The EU is convening its experts over fears that it might get
Participatory democracy in the EU
By John Parry Sovereignty originally meant the absolute worldly power of the sovereign or monarch. Out of self-interest, absolute monarchs tended to regard their sovereignty as an expression of the
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Statements on the budget
Why my bank statements come in through the post, I always read them carefully to check up on what has been going on – did I really spend that, I
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Trumpets
“It is time to give ourselves a reality check. To receive the wake-up call,” said Tony Blair after the No votes in France and the Netherlands. Sometimes, on a cold