By Brendan Donnelly During the past month it has become much clearer how Mr Blair at least hopes that the politically difficult question of the European constitutional treaty will be […]
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By Richard Laming Published in The Times, 27 April 2007 Sir, It is wrong to depict the European Union as a one-way ratchet towards greater integration (“Just say ‘Non’, April 25).
A written answer in the House of Commons yesterday: EC Action Mr. Hayes: To ask the Prime Minister on which occasions in the last 12 months he has met representatives
Are there two European Unions? The way in which a decision by the Council of Ministers on the fight against racism and hate speech was reported in the newspapers yesterday
An epitaph for the Blair era was published today by Chatham House, the respected and independent foreign policy think tank. “Blair’s foreign policy and its possible successor(s)”, written by outgoing
Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the Henrietta Barnett School, 13 November 2006. Thank you for the invitation to explain why Britain benefits from membership of the European
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On present plans, the German Presidency in the first half of next year will conclude its work with a European Council at which a procedure and timetable will be adopted
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An excellent speech by President Barroso this evening at Chatham House, in the Third Hugo Young Memorial Lecture. (The speech was trailed in the Guardian this morning here and reported
An interesting discussion yesterday between Andrew Duff and Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat spokespeople on constitutional affairs in the European Parliament and foreign affairs in the House of Commons, respectively. (It
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During the summer break, I had the privilege of sitting in on a weekend discussion about the future of Europe conducted on a deliberately neutral basis. I was there to
