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Plan A+ from Gérard Onesta MEP
EP vice-president, French Green Gérard Onesta (who is also a member of the EP constitutional affairs committee) presented on Wednesday 29 November 2006 his plan A+ for the continuation of […]
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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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Cleverer but no wiser
A discussion last week between A C Grayling and Mark Kurlansky on the subject “Fighting Talk: Pacifism, War and International Relations” raised the question of whether things are getting better […]
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Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project?
By Kalypso Nicolaïdis Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project? According to myth, it is the path to the Grail that matters. So for the quest […]
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The rule of law
Everyone knows what is meant by the rule of law, don’t they? Successive governments have stood by and defended the idea; federalists have tried to take it into the international […]
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Bertie Ahern – new text added to the treaty
The Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has suggested the EU constitution could be altered in order to win the approval of French and Dutch voters who rejected the text last […]
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Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
“My proposal is as simple as it is radical: the Constitution, drastically reduced, should be submitted to approval once again, and not just by each Nation State on its own, […]
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Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria
“The negative outcome of the referendums held in two Member States has not only brought matters to a halt for the moment but also put a huge damper on the […]
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Jürgen Habermas, Philosopher
“I believe Europe should make an effort to fine tune reforms that not only confer effective decisional powers to the Union, but also its own Foreign Minister, a President elected […]