RELAUNCHING THE EUROZONE AND EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY
RELAUNCHING THE EUROZONE AND EUROPEAN DEMOCRACYTIME FOR ACTION! The Spinelli Group supports Juncker’s State of the Union Speech and his package of proposals to relaunch the European Union and calls …
European constitution
Federal Union Now (6 October 2011)
LAUNCH OF A NEW PUBLICATION BY ANDREW DUFF MEP Thursday 6 October 2011, 5.00 pm Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU The European Union must take a decisive …
Federal Union Now – new publication by Andrew Duff
The European Union must take a decisive step towards a federal economic government, with common fiscal policies and a larger budget, if it is to save the euro. Saving the …
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Neo-con nonsense
This website posted in the Quotebank yesterday some comments made by the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, regarding the British relationship with the EU. (Read them here.) He …
UK could help frame EU principles
Letter published in the Financial Times, 17 January 2011 Sir, The eurosceptic critics of the European Union bill, complaining it does not go far enough to restrain judicial activism (“Tory …
Vaclav Havel: “more room for the expression of the will of individual nations and for the exercise of their identity”
“I would recommend to take the course of a gradual, increasingly profound, enhancement of the parliamentary and federal elements, rather than one founded on treaties among states and on institutions …
A deal with the Czechs
So, a deal was struck with the Czech Republic to get the Lisbon treaty through. An opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, along Polish and British lines, was added …
The difference that federalism makes to Europe
The European Union may not be the only factor that has brought peace to Europe, but it is certainly a major one. A set of international institutions founded on the …
Covenant or contract
One of the things that has been hard to explain in the debate about the European constitution is the nature of the change that it represents. On the one hand, …
Sir Jonathan Sacks: Europe needs a new covenant and the time to begin it is now
From a speech by Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, at the European Parliament, 19 November 2008: “Therefore, I want to add one …
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