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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 […]
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European constitution now!
Adoption without veto! Appeal to the National Governments and Parliaments, and the European Parliament The Union of European Federalists deeply regrets the failure of the Brussels IGC summit in December […]
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Let us reorder this world around us: the European constitution and the wider world
By Richard Laming Having written a pamphlet about European foreign policy and world order, I should start by explaining why I am interested in the subject. It goes back to […]
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Myths about the United Nations
By John Roberts Several popular myths about the UN are regularly uttered and heard and these indicate not only certain failures to understand recent history, but also tend to prevent […]
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European defence passes through London
By Richard Laming The first signs of a deal on how to develop a European defence represent a step forward, perhaps a bigger step than it might at first seem. […]
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The WTO and the EU post-Cancún
A submission by Federal Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee (Sub-Committee A) 1. The failure of the recent summit at Cancún should be an occasion to consider […]