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The second elections in Scotland and Wales: issues and verdicts
By Professor Stanley Henig The elections for a second Scottish Parliament and a second Welsh Assembly on 1 May 2003 were each contested by four principal parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal […]
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Inside the sausage factory
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 13 May 2003 Laws are like sausages, said Bismarck. You don’t want to watch them being made. But following the progress of the European constitutional […]
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The Monarch of the Glen
By Brendan Donnelly For all the appearance of continuing Cabinet discussion and consultation, it is already clear what Gordon Brown will tell the House of Commons about the euro on […]
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A warped sense of priorities over EU
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 28 April 2003 Sir, Denis MacShane (“Europe should forget the federalist papers”, April 23) is performing the old vaudeville trick of accusing your […]
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The power of numbers
Philippe Legrain observes that 900 million Europeans, Americans and Japanese will not accept being outvoted by 1.3 billion Chinese (Books, 21 April). Has he stopped to wonder why 1.3 billion […]
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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 […]