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America unbound: the Bush revolution in foreign policy
A review by John Williams America unbound The Bush revolution in foreign policy. Ivo H.Daalder & James M. Lindsay. Published by the Brookings Institute Press (2003) The purpose of Ivo […]
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On life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
By Geoff Taylor Partly as a result of the gridlock in the USA election, I came to realise that Great Britain’s system of government has become anachronistic and thoroughly retrograde. […]
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The idea of Europe
By Will Hutton Today’s European Union is a remarkable, if still incomplete, achievement. Its founding six members have been augmented by another nine and up to ten additional countries in eastern […]
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Efficiency agenda for Union of 25
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 31 December 2003 Sir, In discussing the consequences of enlargement on the European Union’s marathon negotiating sessions, Tobias Buck neglects to mention the […]
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Federalism in 2003 – a review
British politics has gone through some severe shocks in the past 12 months, faced with constitutional upheavals at home and abroad. As 2004 opens, we look at what effect those […]
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A positive outcome from a failed summit
By Richard Laming I am looking for a silver lining in the collapse of last weekend’s talks on the European constitution. It is quite hard for me, as a devout […]
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After the failure of the IGC, UEF calls on states in favour of the draft constitution to go ahead with its signature and adoption
Brussels, 15 December 2003 The Union of European Federalists noted with great concern the failure of the European Summit meeting in Brussels on 12 and 13 December 2003, to agree […]
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Only a federal European Union can respond effectively to the existential challenges that confront the world
By John Pinder When Federal Union was launched in London in 1938 it had extraordinary success, with membership rising rapidly to ten thousand and support from leading politicians, academics and […]
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The European constitution: twice as Nice
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 9 December 2003 Gisela Stuart, British Labour MP and presidium member in theConvention, has declared this week that the draft constitution should not be adopted […]
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Clare Short’s EU accusations seen as ‘wide of the mark’
Published in The Times, 29 November 2003 Sir, From where does Clare Short get the idea that a renationalised trade negotiating authority would have been preferable to the EU at the WTO summit […]