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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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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