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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, […]
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How to fight the far right
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 17 January 2007 Two parallel developments in the European Parliament this month reveal much about the state of European democracy. First of all, there is the […]
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Chris Patten: Europe needs a foreign policy
“There will be no successful renewal of Middle East peace talks unless Europe is prepared to develop its own position without allowing the US and Israel to gut whatever Brussels […]
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Ségo vs Sarko
It is the tradition at this time of year for the newspapers to be full of predictions for the year ahead. This blog refuses to follow suit, partly because it’s […]
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Günter Verheugen: enough already
Published in EUobserver, 8 January 2007 European Commission vice-president Günter Verheugen hit the headlines again last week, questioning the right of smaller EU states to nominate members of the Commission in […]
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Mortgaged to war
By Richard Laming Published in The Sunday Times, 7 January 2007 In reviewing Britain’s relations with her allies, Sir Christopher Meyer advises against trusting other European countries too far because of […]
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Review of 2006
By Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were […]
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Catholic bishops for the constitutional treaty – May 2006
“In view of these major challenges, the European Union must reform its current treaties. We are convinced that the necessary reforms can be achieved through the Constitutional Treaty. The debate […]