The fallout from last night’s European Council summit in Brussels is still falling out, but I think it is possible now to identify the main lines of what was and […]
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By Brendan Donnelly The new Conservative policy on the Lisbon treaty and the European Union more generally, announced last week by David Cameron, is a distinctly ambiguous one. This may
David Cameron and Zhou Enlai Read More »
David Cameron’s speech on reforming government on Tuesday morning includes the usual sideswipes at the European Union. He says: “The EU and the judges – neither of them accountable to
How many times do we hear in British politics that federalism in Europe means centralisation? That a federal Europe would continue to accrete power after power away from the member
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You’ve got to admire the slogan. “Let sunshine win the day.” Just when David Cameron was being accused of lacking policies and substance, he pulls this one out of the
David Cameron, speaking at the start of the Tory party conference this week in Bournemouth, called for people to stop “banging on about Europe”. Sorry, David, that’s not really me.
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Amid all the fuss about the constitutional and legal implications of David Cameron’s call for a new Bill of Rights, the most interesting point is his description of the European
