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Parliamentary democracy
I was at a King’s College London European Society debate this evening on the future of the European Union. (Read my introductory remarks here.) I lost my temper, almost, at […]
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Europe in 2020: what’s the prognosis?
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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Tim Lang: “a new structure of government”, 27/01/07
Writing about making the retail chain more sustainable, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, writes: “Lessons suggest retailers must together demand a new structure of government – […]
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Fifty years of the European Union
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 […]
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To the European Heads of Government gathering in Madrid on 26 January 2007
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 […]
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Representing Scotland
A marvellous report on the BBC today that the Scottish Executive is being sidelined in the making of UK policy at European level. (Read the report here.) Of course, such […]
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A thought experiment on Iraq
Amid all the debate about what the British government did and did not know about Iraqi WMD in the run-up to war in Iraq, a thought occurs to me. Let’s […]
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Blair at war
Tony Blair’s speech on the role of the UK armed forces last week deserves some attention on this blog. (Read the speech here.) A lot of what he said was […]
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France’s Royal wants new EU constitution referendum
Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate to become France’s next president, has said she is in favour of holding a new referendum on a revised EU constitution in 2009, proposing to […]
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No big debates or referendums on EU constitution, says Merkel
German chancellor Angela Merkel has told MEPs she does not intend to re-launch a broad debate on the revised EU constitution but rather focus on confidential talks with national governments, […]