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  • Fair to Blair

    An epitaph for the Blair era was published today by Chatham House, the respected and independent foreign policy think tank. “Blair’s foreign policy and its possible successor(s)”, written by outgoing […]

  • Iraq: staying or going

    The report from the Iraq Study Group that was published last week (read it here) bookends a rather inglorious period in American foreign policy. The era of policy-making by the […]

  • Geoff Hoon: Treaty amendment is needed

    Written answer in the House of Commons, 11 Dec 2006 : Column 771W Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what legal opinion she has […]

  • Social Platform on the constitution

    In comparison with the existing Treaties, the Constitution has included new values, notably human dignity, equality, the rights of minorities and the characterization of the values upheld by the societies […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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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