By Richard Laming Published in The Independent, 19 February 2007 Sir: Simon Carr may be an experienced observer of Westminster but he is woefully ill-informed about the European Union (sketch, 8 […]
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By Richard Laming Published in The Spectator, 17 February 2007 Sir: Tony Blair misunderstands the notion of ‘soft power’ when he uses it to refer to the non-military aspects of
By Richard Laming Published in The Prague Post, 14 February 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel probably didn’t get the reception she had hoped for when she visited Prague in January. She
By John Preston The question asks: “Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy? – and to discuss (implicitly) the democratic deficit? – and the future of the Treaty?
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 7 February 2007 Of all the problems with the convention/IGC process that delivered the constitutional treaty, one of the biggest is that it did not
Ratification is not an optional extra Read More »
By Richard Laming It is not possible to talk about Europe in the year 2020 without first looking at the world as a whole. I think there are three trends
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Based on a talk given by Richard Laming to the Eastbourne branch of the European Movement, 24 January 2007 I was going to start off this talk by saying that
Fifty years of the European Union Read More »
Brussels, 23 January 2007 The last important step in the European integration process was taken in Maastricht in 1991, when the then 12 member states of the European Union decided
To the European Heads of Government gathering in Madrid on 26 January 2007 Read More »
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 17 January 2007 Two parallel developments in the European Parliament this month reveal much about the state of European democracy. First of all, there is the
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Published in EUobserver, 8 January 2007 European Commission vice-president Günter Verheugen hit the headlines again last week, questioning the right of smaller EU states to nominate members of the Commission in
Günter Verheugen: enough already Read More »
