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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 […]
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Sugar debate shows that EU politics returns to normal
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 15 July 2004 After the excitement of the European elections, the approval of the constitution text and the nomination of a candidate for president of […]
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Political parties should nominate own candidates
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 3 July 2004 Sir, John Szemerey (Letters, June 26) proposes that candidates for president of the European Commission should contest the European elections, […]
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Taking George W Bush seriously
By John Williams A review of: The president of good and evil: taking George W Bush seriously” by Peter Singer (Granta Books, 2004) “Plan of attack” by Bob Woodward (Simon […]
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Democracies can be warmongers too
Democracies may find it harder to go to war but they do not find it impossible. As Sir Samuel Brittan acknowledges, the human tendency to divide the world into in-groups […]
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Human rights in Guantanamo Bay
This document describes the “legal black hole” created by the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and outlines some political actions that might be taken to address the problem. Nothing […]