What makes trade free?
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, […]
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Running the risk: people power could derail Europe’s future
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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US-EU: the end of the affair
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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The democratic credentials of the new European Union: does the Constitution increase the EU’s democratic legitimacy?
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
The European governance and the future of the European Union
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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What happens if Britain votes no?
By Richard Laming During the debate about whether there should be a referendum on the European constitution in Britain, it was not possible to be sure what the British constitutional
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Campaign briefing: Democracy and the European constitution
The draft European constitution proposed by the European constitutional convention and currently under discussion in the IGC marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. Each successive
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Towards a federal Europe
By Richard Laming Federalism is widely misunderstood as a concept and so needs to be explained. It issometimes complicated and it also has opponents who seem to have an interest in
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Will Europe be frightened into a constitution?
By Peter Sain ley Berry This week’s super-summit in Berlin of the Big Three – France, Germany and the United Kingdom represented a tectonic shift in the way that Europe
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Let us reorder this world around us: the European constitution and the wider world
By Richard Laming Having written a pamphlet about European foreign policy and world order, I should start by explaining why I am interested in the subject. It goes back to
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