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A British letter to France: vote for Europe
By Neal Ascherson, Christopher Bobinski, Richard Corbett, Brendan Donnelly, Andrew Duff, Sue Garden, Timothy Garden, Kirsty Hughes, Will Hutton, Richard Laming, Philip Souta, Edward Steen, Zygmunt Tyszkiewicz Published in openDemocracy, […]
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High stakes in French referendum
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 May 2005 In the last week before the French people go to the polls to vote on the European constitution, the stakes are getting […]
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Gorgeous George
22 May 2005 Last week’s visit by George Galloway to the US Senate has provoked a lot of coverage in the British media, but hardly for the right reasons. He […]
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Supranationalism is not a gaffe
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 19 May 2005 The fuss last week over whether Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström actually made those reported remarks about intergovernmentalism leading to war does not […]
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Supranationalism
One of the first things I learned about the etiquette of debating politics on the internet was that the first person to mention Hitler is deemed to have lost the […]
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Some notes on the general election
10 May 2005 Now that the election has been concluded, what lessons are there for the debate about Europe? Who won, and who lost. Two items of good news for […]
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Bananas
A comment was posed on this blog a few posts ago, when I was writing about free trade, asking why the European Union had made it an offence, punishable by […]
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My country right or wrong?
By Geoffrey Heller“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend,” wrote the English novelist E. M. Forster, “I hope I would have the guts to […]
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Happiness
Tolstoy wrote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Perhaps something similar applies to the debate about Europe. All Yes voters are […]
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About Wolfowitz
It seems that Paul Wolfowitz will be accepted as new head of the World Bank, after nomination by President George W Bush. It’s not the place of this website to […]