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Bilateral treaties
Some maths inspired by an letter published in The Times on 2 November 2004. The letter, from Conservative MPs Bill Cash, Angela Browning, Edward Leigh and Richard Shepherd, opposed the European […]
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Guantanamo Bay: a hole in the laws of physics
By Richard Laming The detention camp established by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has become notorious around the world. It is used as a prison camp for prisoners captured […]
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Mr Buttiglione helps to draft an unwritten chapter to the European constitution
By Peter Sain ley Berry In delivering certain ill-advised remarks to the European Parliament about gay men and straight women, Mr Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian Commissioner designate may turn out […]
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Why the European constitution should be welcomed
Speech by Brendan Donnelly, Chair of Federal Union, at the European Social Forum, 15 October 2004 The European Constitution is an attempt to codify and improve the workings of the […]
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What is federalism?
An article by Professor Apolo Nsibambi, Prime Minister of Uganda, explaining the meaning of federalism: “I invite people for an improvement of the definition and analysis of federalism. We must […]
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Swiss federalism for Britain?
By Lawrence Fullick British schoolchildren are being invited to study and compare the British and Swiss systems of government using a project pack being sent to secondary schools by the […]
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Disparate visions of the EU’s role
Published in The Times, 22 September 2004 By Richard Laming Sir, The hegemony of Nazi-ruled Europe was not federalist (letter, September 18) but nationalist. The Europe of the 1930s was uniting not by […]
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The democratic credentials of the new European Union: does the Constitution increase the EU’s democratic legitimacy?
Brussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that […]
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The European governance and the future of the European Union
Richard Laming spoke at the Ventotene seminar in September 2004 about European governance and the nature and the future of the European Union. “I think it is important to be […]