Mortgaged to war
By Richard Laming Published in The Sunday Times, 7 January 2007 In reviewing Britain’s relations with her allies, Sir Christopher Meyer advises against trusting other European countries too far because of […]
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Review of 2006
By Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were
The bellyachers of Europe
Message to Europa-Union Deutschland Congress, 22-23 November 2002, Hamelin Dear Friends, We have arrived at a very important turning point in Europe: namely, the enlargement of our European Union and
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Federalism as relevant as ever
By Terry Bishop Federal Union was founded over 60 years ago to foster debate on the issues concerned with federalism. Today these issues are as relevant as ever, as the
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Roy Jenkins (1920-2003)
With the death of Roy Jenkins we have lost one of Britain’s greatest Europeans. As for so many of his generation, the experience of the Second World War left him
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Constructive criticism on the EU budget should be welcomed
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 5 December 2006 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has not always sought popularity among his fellow EU finance ministers. On the eve of
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When will they ever learn?
By Richard Laming Published in The Observer, 26 November 2006 There is a closer south east Asian parallel than Vietnam for the unfolding disaster in Iraq. (‘Time for your Vietnam history
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The future of the European Constitution
By Emmanouil Vrentzos Report on the seminar held on 18 November 2006 On 18 November 2006, Federal Union organised an event on the future of the European constitution, which took
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Should we stay or should we go?
Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the Henrietta Barnett School, 13 November 2006. Thank you for the invitation to explain why Britain benefits from membership of the European
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Mr Brown comes to Brussels
On present plans, the German Presidency in the first half of next year will conclude its work with a European Council at which a procedure and timetable will be adopted
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