How can multilateralism be democratic?
Based on a talk given by Richard Laming to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. I remember in the days of the debate about the euro, a central […]
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What’s my motivation here?
One of the things that the pro-European campaign is going to have to establish is the reason for the democratic unification of Europe, and by extension for the European constitution.
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Swiss federalism for Britain?
By Lawrence Fullick British schoolchildren are being invited to study and compare the British and Swiss systems of government using a project pack being sent to secondary schools by the
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The democratic credentials of the new European Union: does the Constitution increase the EU’s democratic legitimacy?
Brussels, 9 September 2004, Richard Laming, Director, Federal Union Bureau member, Union of European Federalists Why democracy matters in the EU The origin of the European Union is the recognition that
Campaign briefing: Democracy and the European constitution
The draft European constitution proposed by the European constitutional convention and currently under discussion in the IGC marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. Each successive
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Democracy and EU constitution
By Richard Laming Published in The Times on 25 March 2004 Sir, William Rees-Mogg’s suggestion (Comment, March 22) that the proposed European constitution is in contradiction to liberal democracy leaves
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No longer the stuff of dreams
Address by Keith Best of WFM to the 20th Congress of UEF in Genoa, Sunday 21 March 2004 My dear friends and fellow federalists. First, let me acknowledge that I
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Sidelined in Berlin
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 18 February 2004 When Gerhard Schröder, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair gather in Berlin today for their trilateral summit, everyone will be remarking on how
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Comitology rules
By Terry Bishop “Europe in Charge: Committee Governance in the European Union”, Thomas Christiansen and Emil Kirchner, Editors, 189pp. Manchester University Press, £40, 0719055520 “Democracy In The European Union”, Dimitris
Really citizens?
By John Pinder John Pinder argues that the draft European Constitution will make the EU clearly more effective and democratic and the people of the Union will become citizens in