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Chris Haskins: CAP Reform – A Watershed for the EU?
From a speech to UACES by Lord Haskins, 15 March 2006: I believe that with the Fischler reforms the genie is out of the bottle, that farming should be treated […]
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Peter Sutherland: the need for QMV in foreign policy
From a speech given to the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust in London on 22 November 2006: The success of any foreign policy depends on political agreement on the goals to […]
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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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An argument against pacifism
I wrote a few posts ago about a talk by Mark Kurlansky, author of “Nonviolence: the history of a dangerous idea”. I’ve now read the book. I wasn’t very impressed […]
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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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Why global accountability matters
By Richard Laming This article is a response to the paper “In the name of the people”, by Titus Alexander, chair of Charter 99. You can read the original paper […]
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Fair to Blair
An epitaph for the Blair era was published today by Chatham House, the respected and independent foreign policy think tank. “Blair’s foreign policy and its possible successor(s)”, written by outgoing […]
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Iraq: staying or going
The report from the Iraq Study Group that was published last week (read it here) bookends a rather inglorious period in American foreign policy. The era of policy-making by the […]
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Geoff Hoon: Treaty amendment is needed
Written answer in the House of Commons, 11 Dec 2006 : Column 771W Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what legal opinion she has […]