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The death of Saddam Hussein
I am not going to say anything about the death penalty in the case of Saddam Hussein – plenty of other people have already done so, and no-one better than […]
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Mortgaged to the Yanks
A documentary on BBC4 last night about the debt that Britain racked up after the second world war borrowing money from the Americans. The presenter was Sir Christopher Meyer, former […]
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Ségolène Royal on Europe
Press conference, 11 October 2006: The French presidency should set up a convention to prepare the text of an institutional reform to presented to the peoples, on the same day, following […]
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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 […]