Expats and MPs
President Sarkozy has floated the idea of having French MPs to represent French people abroad. There are hundreds of thousands of French citizens living in the UK – London is […]
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Need for global rules
By Richard Laming Published in The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2009 SIR – Janet Daley (Comment, September 27) is correct to warn of the problems posed by global governance but
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Overcome with emotion
It’s been a strange week for statements about the European Union and why we should support it. Government ministers here and in Brussels have been musing on the issue in
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Global democracy: the case for a world government
By Torbjörn Tännsjö There is no denying that many problems facing humanity have a global nature. If we are to solve them at all, we need to solve them on a
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Is smoking democratic?
More on Sarah Palin, I’m afraid. Her purported belief in creationism, which turns out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind, has led to an interesting discussion about
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A league of democracies
Most of the discussion about the proposal for a league of democracies – floated most notably by Republican presidential candidate John McCain – centres about the notion of democracy. How
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A Universal Right of Address at the UN
An interesting proposal arrives for a reform of the UN Security Council, not in terms of who is a member but in terms of who may speak. The “Universal Right
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For an effective and more democratic European Union
Federal Union Manifesto This manifesto is designed to mobilize committed Europeans to campaign for an effective and more democratic European Union and one that exercises its full potential in world
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How the Treaty of Lisbon will make the EU more democratic
The Treaty of Lisbon (formerly known as the Reform Treaty) was signed on 13 December 2007 and it marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. Each successive step since the
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An opportunity for democracy
Submission by Federal Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee inquiry into the impact of the Reform Treaty on the institutions of the EU. Federal Union addresses three
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