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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 […]
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Rules
I was at a meeting of the European Movement yesterday to discuss its internal rules. Not the best way to spend a day of glorious sunshine but sometimes an organisation […]
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What makes trade free?
17 March 2005 A regular complaint about the EU, in the comment section of this blog and elsewhere, is that it is unnecessary. All that is needed is free trade, […]
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Let Attac have their money
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 16 March 2005 The revelation on Monday (14 March) that anti-globalisation campaigners Attac have received funding from the European Commission has provoked some criticism. I […]
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How can we make multilateral institutions more accountable?
Based on a talk given by Robert Lloyd, Project Officer in the Accountability Programme of the One World Trust, to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. The question […]
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How can multilateralism be democratic?
Based on a talk given by Richard Laming to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. I remember in the days of the debate about the euro, a central […]
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Can multilateralism be effective? Protecting human rights
Based on a talk given by Daniel Wheatley, Government Relations Officer of the Bahá’í Community of the UK, to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. May I begin […]
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What does it mean to be a pro-European?
9 March 2005 I annoy a lot of my opponents in debates by calling them “anti-European”. It is a description they reject, but that does not stop me using it. […]