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Party like it’s 2009
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 27 October 2006 An intrepid group of Danish pro-European campaigners want to know why they can’t join European political parties. As reported in these pages […]
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European political parties
There’s a new initiative to try and create European political parties. This one comes from Denmark, and the aim is to establish a notion of individual membership at the European […]
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B is for Beckett
I was in Cardiff at the end of last week, visiting some officials in the Welsh Assembly Government and going down to Cardiff Bay to see the Assembly itself. There […]
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EU citizenship
One of the unexpected consequences of having set up this website is the frequent enquiries coming in to Federal Union from people looking for help. The internet isn’t just for […]
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Reform of the CAP needs reform of the constitution
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 October 2006 I wrote last week in these pages about how the Common Agricultural Policy was first set up to encourage enough production, but […]
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Natural modesty
An excellent speech by President Barroso this evening at Chatham House, in the Third Hugo Young Memorial Lecture. (The speech was trailed in the Guardian this morning here and reported […]
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Foreign oil
Another thing about the Al Gore film “An inconvenient truth” that needs to be written about. This point annoyed me quite a lot when I saw the film – the […]
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Inconvenience
I went to see Al Gore’s disaster movie about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Unusually for a disaster movie, maybe, it focuses not on the disaster as it unfolds but […]
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The constitutional treaty explained: Legal personality for the EU
One objective of the European constitution is to simplify the institutional system. A current complication is the pillar structure, whereby different legislative and institutional routes are used according to the […]
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The constitutional treaty explained: A double-hatted foreign minister
At present, responsibility for EU foreign policy is divided between the Council of Ministers (foreign policy in its traditional sense), whose High Representative for Foreign Affairs is Javier Solana, and […]