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The European Union as a power for peace
By Emmanouil Vrentzos During the UEF congress in Vienna I participated in the resolution working group titled: “The European Union as a Power for Peace”. Mr. Philip Agathonos (Vice-President of […]
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Foreign courts
Amid all the fuss about the constitutional and legal implications of David Cameron’s call for a new Bill of Rights, the most interesting point is his description of the European […]
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Balance and Gordon Brown
As Gordon Brown gets closer to becoming prime minister and accordingly tries to accentuate his Englishness, his opponents are trying to raise the barrier of his being Scottish. The latest […]
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Make your mind up
William Hague’s speech to the Open Europe group last week is a masterpiece of confusion, of seeking to have it both ways. As such, perhaps, it is a good illustration […]
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Europe v USA: whose economy wins?
By George Irvin Many Europeans are deeply ambivalent about the economic performance of the European Union. “The EU was meant to bring us a golden future, but instead it has […]
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War is hell
The reports of the massacre in Haditha are the definition of a shock but not a surprise. Some US marines deployed in Iraq are killed by a roadside bomb and […]
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From chaos to cosmos
By way of contrast with the speech by Tony Blair, and to prove that this blog is not always critical of politicians, let me refer you to the recent pamphlet […]
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Failure in his own terms
I thought when I saw the advance billing of Tony Blair’s speech at Georgetown University last Friday (which you can read here) that I would have some interesting thoughts on […]
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Loss of EU vetoes
By Richard Laming Published in the Telegraph, 26 May 2006 Sir, If, by advocating a “population-based veto”, the Conservative MEP Charles Tannock (letter, May 25) means that small EU member states […]
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Connected
One of the basic laws of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else. The same is true in federalism. I was prompted to write this by a news […]