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Regional assemblies
By Lawrence Fullick To the Western Gazette, 3 January 2002 N SCRASE of UKIP seems to have a Brussels bee in his bonnet when he thinks Regional Assemblies will report […]
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Open letter to Valéry Giscard D’Estaing
Mr Valéry Giscard D’Estaing President of the Convention Brussels, 20 December 2001 A duty to listen: the right to be heard The Bureau of the U.E.F. (Union of European Federalists), […]
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Justice and revenge: the lessons of 11 September
By Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful […]
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Some thoughts about the Charter of Fundamental Rights
By John Parry In June 1999 the Cologne Summit decided that the citizens’ “fundamental rights at Union level should be consolidated in a Charter and thereby made more evident”. It […]
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Why Wales needs a Parliament
It is nearly a quarter of a century since I last made a speech in this institution. This University has a fine record in offering educational opportunities to students from […]
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Global justice or national revenge?
By Richard Laming The military action in Afghanistan has no end in sight. The world still awaits a clear definition of what the war is for. It is clear that […]
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Federalism thrives on diversity
By Keith Best Speech by Keith Best, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Federalist Movement (WFM), at the closing plenary of the XIX European Congress of the Union […]
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Bismarckian balance-of-power axioms questioned by default
By John Williams Review of: The tragedy of great power politics, John Mearsheimer. Published by W.W.Norton, 2001 Does America need a foreign policy? toward a diplomacy for the twenty-first century. […]
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A parliament to be proud of
By Richard Corbett MEP Richard Corbett believes that the EP’s bad press is often down to incorrect information, false assumptions and misunderstandings The European Parliament is not a “sexy” parliament. […]
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The Tobin Tax is no substitute for a world currency
By Guido Montani In the Fall 2000 issue of World Federalist News, in an article on the World Federalist Movement’s programme (Tobin Tax Campaigns Take Off?), it is argued that […]