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11 September and its aftermath
By Keith Best We have been told on innumerable occasions that the world is very different after September 11. Before the phrase creeps into popular mythology we should examine objectively […]
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One sort of world government or another
By John Roberts For the past 60 years federalists have been advocating the need for a democratic world government. Such advocacy of the urgent need for it was given overwhelming […]
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Is this the world we’re in?
By John Williams The world we’re in, by Will Hutton, published by Little, Brown 2002 Re-ordering the world, edited by Mark Leonard, published by The Foreign Policy Centre, 2002 In […]
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Speech to the European constitutional convention
By Fernand Herman, on behalf of the Federalist Voice network Mr Presidents, ladies, gentlemen, honourable members of the Convention You have heard at length from diverse members of civil society […]
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The European Convention: work in progress
By Brendan Donnelly Current discussion of the European Convention’s work and prospects centres around three related topics, namely the ability or otherwise of the Convention to arrive at a consensus […]
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The Laeken Declaration: the way to a constitution for the citizens of Europe?
After the embarrassment of the Nice Summit the heads of state and government were obliged to recognise that the old way of working via government representatives meeting behind closed doors […]
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The case for a federal Europe
By John Pinder Clarity is needed about a concept that has been so much abused in British politics. A federal polity is simply one with democratic government at two or […]
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Europe’s choice
By John Williams Atlanticism versus European federalism: the choice between consolidating United States global hegemony and restoring global balance-of-power The British political establishment’s habit of giving precedence to the mythological […]
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EU citizenship in an inter-cultural union
By John Parry Over past decades, Europe has seen the development of two apparently contradictory trends. The first is the realisation that countries can more effectively defend their own interests […]
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Can the Laeken Convention save the European Union?
By Marc-Oliver Pahl The European Union has been discussing the reform of its constitutional foundations to prepare for enlargement to the East since spring 1996. In the first round of […]