From a letter published in the Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2010 The oft-stated position that our Armed Forces will have to work far more closely with allies than previously is […]
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Speaking yesterday (4 November) at the opening ceremony of the College of Europe’s Bruges campus, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek identified the creation of a European Energy Community as the
The claim about the “totally alien form of justice” is just plain wrong … the erroneous belief that European forms of justice are somehow at fundamental variance with British traditions
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of Canadian Liberal Opposition, quoted in interview with Charles Kennedy, The House Magazine, 21/9/09 “In Canada we have a deep, entrenched sense that we are a federal
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“Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world. We don’t want the European Union to become a “super-state”,
A truly insane news report caught my eye in the Financial Times today, proposing a tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific. (Read the story here.) Bolivia
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“Are we content to see banks from other, especially small European, countries take deposits across the continent on the same basis as before? Increasingly, supervisors and governments in larger states
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From a speech by Victoria Nuland, United States Permanent Representative to Nato, at the Presse Club and AmCham, Paris, France, 22 February 2008: “An ESDP with only soft power is
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From a speech by Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, at the European Parliament, 19 November 2008: “Therefore, I want to add one
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From an interview in the Sunday Times, 26 October 2008, with British defence secretary John Hutton: John Hutton said: “France is one of our closest allies, militarily. The French believe
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