Tart
10 July 2005 Let’s hope the Luxembourgers vote Yes in the referendum today, as a response to Jack Straw if nothing else. Jack Straw, who is the British foreign minister, […]
constitutional treaty
A new kind of debate
I wrote earlier in the week about the forthcoming referendum in Luxembourg on Sunday. It’s a vote on a constitutional treaty that has been rejected by the voters in France
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Three – that’s the magic number
I had to laugh when I read an e-mail circular exhorting the people of Luxembourg to vote Yes in the referendum next Sunday because otherwise the constitution might fail and
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Precision
One of the supposed selling points of the European constitution was that it would define and limit the powers to the EU institutions. Member states and citizens would know where
What should the summit do?
Opinions fly around about the European Council meeting later this week, even among people who are normally on the same side in the debate about Europe. Should the ratification process
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Oh shit
30 May 2005 Whatever you think of the outcome of yesterday’s referendum in France, you have to admire the process. Millions of men and women went to the polls to
Some notes on the general election
10 May 2005 Now that the election has been concluded, what lessons are there for the debate about Europe? Who won, and who lost. Two items of good news for
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Bananas
A comment was posed on this blog a few posts ago, when I was writing about free trade, asking why the European Union had made it an offence, punishable by
Happiness
Tolstoy wrote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Perhaps something similar applies to the debate about Europe. All Yes voters are
Running the risk: people power could derail Europe’s future
By Richard Whitman Now that the member states have signed the constitutional treaty, attention turns to the ratification process. States will have to follow national ratification procedures and at least
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