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MPs and what they think
An e-mail arrives in my in-box (from CommunicateResearch) reporting on another survey on Europe, this time of MPs at Westminster. 85 per cent of Liberal Democrat MPs supported a European […]
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It was 20 years ago today
The Single European Act was signed in Luxembourg on 17 February 2006. Who would have thought then what kind of European Union would lead to? The EU now has 25 […]
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40 billion pounds
A debate this evening with Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP for London. On the whole it went quite well (you can read my opening remarks here). One thing that was […]
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Britain in Europe: leading or leaving?
By Richard Laming I would like to thank the organisers of today’s debate for their invitation to come and speak. If I may say so, “Britain in Europe: leading or […]
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Capitalism on a habitable planet
Robert Newman used to be funny. Now he’s just laughable. No, I don’t mean that, that’s not fair, there is more to his argument than meets the eye. (He had […]
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Blair and the founding fathers
More on Tony Blair’s speech in Oxford last Thursday (which you can read here). He declares that: “The vision is the one I share with Europe’s founders: an ever closer […]
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Hague in Brussels
William Hague, Conservative shadow foreign secretary, went on a mission to the European Parliament earlier this week looking for partners with whom to form a new centre-right, Eurosceptic political grouping. […]
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The dream of Rome
It’s taken me two days to get over watching Boris Johnson on the subject of the Roman empire before I could sit down to write a blog entry about it. […]
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Trust
A fascinating presentation this morning by the Edelman public relations company of their 2006 Trust Barometer. This is a survey of opinion around the world of the extent to which […]
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Send the constitutional debate back to the member states, says the UEF
UEF and JEF call for local, regional and national governments and European civil society to grasp the opportunities of the Duff-Voggenhuber report Today, 20 January, the UEF and JEF sent […]