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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 […]
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Thomas Jefferson v Alexander Hamilton
There was a fascinating debate on the radio this evening comparing the political philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both were important figures in the American revolution and the […]
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Power
Apparently Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, is the most powerful man in Britain. A poll of listeners to the Radio 4 Today programme said so, so it […]
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Review of 2005
By Richard Laming 2005 will be remembered as a bad year for federalism. There have been bad years before and there no doubt will be bad years again, so there […]
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Gas
There is a new trade war in Europe, between Russia and the Ukraine over the cost of gas. The EU is convening its experts over fears that it might get […]
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Participatory democracy in the EU
By John Parry Sovereignty originally meant the absolute worldly power of the sovereign or monarch. Out of self-interest, absolute monarchs tended to regard their sovereignty as an expression of the […]