By Satish Desai Introduction During my visit to the USA, I had a short discussion with a Senator, who felt strongly that Europe could not be a “State” and rejection […]
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Written evidence from Federal Union submitted to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee (read pdf version) Federal Union Federal Union was founded in 1938 and campaigns for federalism for
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By Jo Leinen In the coming twelve months there is to be a phase of reflection about the future of the European project. Unfortunately, the European Council did not tell
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By Alberto Majocchi Globalisation is a very complex phenomenon and is difficult to analyse in its different aspects. Hence, I will limit myself to a discussion of its main characteristics
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A comment was posed on this blog a few posts ago, when I was writing about free trade, asking why the European Union had made it an offence, punishable by
17 March 2005 A regular complaint about the EU, in the comment section of this blog and elsewhere, is that it is unnecessary. All that is needed is free trade,
What makes trade free? Read More »
By Richard Whitman Now that the member states have signed the constitutional treaty, attention turns to the ratification process. States will have to follow national ratification procedures and at least
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By George Irvin Like millions of other people, I sat up until the morning hours of Wednesday 3 November watching the results of the US election come in, at first
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Brussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that
Richard Laming spoke at the Ventotene seminar in September 2004 about European governance and the nature and the future of the European Union. “I think it is important to be
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