How the euro protects its members
Previous blogposts (here and here) have written approvingly of the trend to include more foreign-produced value added in a country’s exports. What this means is that the components and parts …
Previous blogposts (here and here) have written approvingly of the trend to include more foreign-produced value added in a country’s exports. What this means is that the components and parts …
By Lucio Levi After the fall of the fascist regimes in Mediterranean Europe, in Latin America and in Asia and after the fall of the communist regimes in the big …
In the spirit of the usual Federal Union reviews of the year, let us cast our minds back 10 years to see how federalism has fared over the course of …
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 28 July 2009 The human heart is on the left, a fact seemingly confirmed by the latest statements about Icelandic membership of the EU from …
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 9 April 2009 On his tour of Europe earlier this week, US president Barack Obama spoke warmly about the prospect of Turkey joining the European …
The province of Kosovo emerged from its chrysalis last week as a new state, separate from Serbia of which it was part for so long. It is not yet a …
By Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were …
Message to Europa-Union Deutschland Congress, 22-23 November 2002, Hamelin Dear Friends, We have arrived at a very important turning point in Europe: namely, the enlargement of our European Union and …
William Hague’s speech to the Open Europe group last week is a masterpiece of confusion, of seeking to have it both ways. As such, perhaps, it is a good illustration …
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 25 January 2005 The full weight of European law is about to fall on the heads of the new member states that joined last year. …