My eye is drawn by the announcement in this week’s New Statesman of a new left-liberal grouping, based around the so-called Euston manifesto. (Read the manifesto here.) Before commenting on […]
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 12 April 2006 Last week’s change of mind by the European Commission on the use of fluorinated gases in refrigeration and air conditioning will not
Plan F has lessons for Plan D Read More »
A novel feature of this weekend’s Italian election is the introduction of seats in parliament to represent expatriates. Twelve seats in the lower house and six in the upper house
By Brendan Donnelly In discussing the future of the European Union, we have to start by acknowledging that there is a substantial and probably growing unease in the relationship between
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Professor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so
A global parliamentary assembly Read More »
UEF and JEF call for local, regional and national governments and European civil society to grasp the opportunities of the Duff-Voggenhuber report Today, 20 January, the UEF and JEF sent
Send the constitutional debate back to the member states, says the UEF Read More »
By John Parry Sovereignty originally meant the absolute worldly power of the sovereign or monarch. Out of self-interest, absolute monarchs tended to regard their sovereignty as an expression of the
Participatory democracy in the EU Read More »
If you want an exposé of the latest misadventures of the neo-conservatives, I can recommend that you read the latest piece in the Guardian by David Clark. You can find
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 12 September 2005 Sir, Craig Kennedy is right to say that America should champion democracy around the world (“America must make democracy a
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 16 March 2005 The revelation on Monday (14 March) that anti-globalisation campaigners Attac have received funding from the European Commission has provoked some criticism. I
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