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The Global Accountability Project
What is the GAP report? The One World Trust’s Global Accountability Report examines the accountability of intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), providing scores for their performance in two aspects of accountability: member […]
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Giscard’s Convention: the final stretch
By Brendan Donnelly It is still unclear whether the Convention on the future of Europe, chaired since early 2002 by Valery Giscard d’Estaing and now approaching its final phase, will […]
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Parliamentary democracy in Europe
By Richard Laming Political scientists and commentators specialise in looking for divisions among the members of the European constitutional convention: between large and small countries, between centralisers and decentralisers, between […]
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Can competences be shared in the European Union?
Letter to Ferdinand Mount, columnist in the Sunday Times, 13 April 2003 I read with interest your piece in the Sunday Times today – I think there is more sense […]
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After Iraq: America and Europe
This letter was sent to William Shawcross, the well-known writer and broadcaster, in response to his 2003 Harkness Lecture, “After Iraq: America and Europe” which you can read here. Dear […]
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Questions about a federal Europe
Each answer on this page is the personal opinion of the author named and not necessarily of Federal Union. 1. Would you please be able to tell me any statistics […]
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Seeking wish fulfilment
By John Williams A review of “Paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order”, by Robert Kagan (Atlantic Books, 2003 £10) Most reviews of Robert Kagan’s brief […]
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The euro referendum: a long time to wait
By Brendan Donnelly At the beginning of this year, the likelihood of the government’s holding and winning in 2003 a referendum on British membership of the euro was already slight. […]
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Proposals for the constitutional convention
General points 1. The constitution should be clear and in writing, adopted after public debate. 2. The ECJ should be the supreme court of the Union. 3. The constitution should […]
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Common foreign and security policy: pipedream or urgent necessity?
Report from the AGM, 22 March 2003 Stephen Haseler: Re-thinking NATO – a European declaration of independence The acute crisis in the Atlantic Alliance over Iraq that burst upon the […]