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Finnish moves on internet alcohol
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 26 February 2007 The Finnish government is getting tough. Words to send a shiver down any spine. Their action this time is directed at Estonian […]
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Fishing in the Pacific
Two things caught my eye in a report in the Financial Times today about the decline of fish stocks in the Pacific Ocean. (Read the report here.) The first is […]
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Attempts to revive EU constitution
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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Soft in the head
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 […]
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Merkel’s headache
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 […]
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Straws in the wind
Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe there’s a concerted campaign, but there were two articles in the papers today calling for a European foreign policy, coming from unexpected sources. The first, and […]
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Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy?
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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Illegitimate comments
Jack Straw has published at last his proposals on reform of the House of Lords. (You can read about them here). The reform debate has been going on a long […]
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Ratification is not an optional extra
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 […]
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Dominique de Villepin: in favour of a European referendum (3/2/07)
Dominique de Villepin aurait-il, pour l’Europe, de plus hautes ambitions que Nicolas Sarkozy ? C’est ce qu’il a laissé entendre jeudi à Bucarest où, lors d’une rencontre avec des étudiants […]