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  • Missile defence: the wrong route to peace

    A submission to the Ministry of Defence by Federal Union, 19 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, what is missile defence? […]

  • Asserting federalist Europe internationally

    By John Williams The immediate unavoidable question of European politics, namely: What does the European Union constitutionally require to assert Europe’s international identity? The answers to this question crystallise what […]

  • The GATS proposals: only half the picture

    A submission by Federal Union to the Department of Trade and Industry, 2 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, why we […]

  • Can Turkey join the EU?

    Reply to an enquiry via the website – 4 December 2002 What’s your opinion on Giscard d’Estaing’s recent comments on Turkey entering the EU? I agree 100% with him. Turkey […]

  • Can Turkey join the EU?

    Letter in the Sunday Times – 22 December 2002 GEOGRAPHY: To be eligible for EU membership, a country has to have European territory, which is why Turkey and Russia may […]

  • Time to choose? European foreign and security policy

    By Sir Timothy Garden   The nature of US power US foreign policy is about promoting the interests of the United States; but this is true for most nations. Yet […]

  • Federal Union’s model of the European Union could not be further from a superstate

    Correspondence with Peter Hain, British government representative in the European constitutional convention 11 October 2002 Dear Mr Hain You said on Newsnight this evening that all thoughts of a “federal […]

  • Simplicity is a virtue

    Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 5, 3 October 2002 Dear Members of the Convention In the European political process, simplicity is a virtue. Just because one […]

  • Federalism as a new political thinking

    Notes for “Federalism as a new political thinking”, Ventotene, 2 September 2002, by Richard Laming Examples of rival forms of political thinking – Nationalists – people we are clearly opposed […]

  • Your region: your choice – revitalising the English regions

    A response by Federal Union to the government’s White Paper, 30 August 2002 SUMMARY OF RESPONSES References are to paragraphs of the Federal Union Paper A. Federal Union is of […]

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