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Federal Europe
By Richard Laming Published in The Independent, 20 April 2004 Sir, The principle of subsidiarity enshrined in the proposed European constitution – that the European Union should act only where it can do so better […]
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Economic reform is a political issue
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 20 April 2004 The European Union has set itself the goal of becoming the mostcompetitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. The Lisbon summit […]
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EU commissioners should be as political as cabinet ministers
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 15 April 2004 Sir, it is not surprising that the European Commission has a lame-duck air about it, given the way its […]
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No surprise if the Commission has an end-of-term feeling
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 1 April 2004 Reports filter out that European Commissioners are starting to think about political jobs in their member states. This is hardly a surprise. […]
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Sir Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
I was privileged to have Sir Peter as a friend for many years. He became the President of the Word Federalist Movement, an international NGO which promotes greater global governance […]
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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 […]