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The case for Eritrean federalism
By Abdul Sayed Prior to the Italian occupation in 1890 the present Eritrean territories, as they stand today, never consisted of one entity. The three regions that Italy moulded together […]
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Democracy and EU constitution
By Richard Laming Published in The Times on 25 March 2004 Sir, William Rees-Mogg’s suggestion (Comment, March 22) that the proposed European constitution is in contradiction to liberal democracy leaves […]
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Connect political power to votes cast
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 March 2004 The United Kingdom is caught up in not one but twoconstitutional debates at the moment, and there is an interesting link between […]
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Towards a federal Europe
By Richard Laming Federalism is widely misunderstood as a concept and so needs to be explained. It issometimes complicated and it also has opponents who seem to have an interest in […]
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No longer the stuff of dreams
Address by Keith Best of WFM to the 20th Congress of UEF in Genoa, Sunday 21 March 2004 My dear friends and fellow federalists. First, let me acknowledge that I […]
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The real arrogance is keeping decisions from the voters
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 8 March 2004 Denis MacShane, British minister for Europe, has denouncedHans-Gert Pöttering, leader of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, as”arrogant” for saying that […]
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Billy Bragg is wrong about the House of Lords
Well-known singer and campaigner Billy Bragg has launched his own campaign for reform of the House of Lords, proposing it should be elected at the same time as the House […]
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Will Europe be frightened into a constitution?
By Peter Sain ley Berry This week’s super-summit in Berlin of the Big Three – France, Germany and the United Kingdom represented a tectonic shift in the way that Europe […]
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Federalism in the post-cold-war era
By John Williams A review of: “Tony Blair: the making of a world leader” by Philip Stephens (Viking, 2004) “The Bubble of American Supremacy” by George Soros (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, […]
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Sidelined in Berlin
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 February 2004 When Gerhard Schröder, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair gather in Berlin today for their trilateral summit, everyone will be remarking on how […]