Interesting comment here by Charles Moore on how Britishness is “artificial” (and he means it “as a compliment”): “It may be that the government’s plan for oaths of allegiance for […]
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I was at a talk today about the history of the state of Israel – this year marks 60 years since it was founded – and I asked about the
The Young European Federalists are launching a campaign complaining at the loss of the European flag from the Reform Treaty. You can read about their campaign here: http://www.communicate-europe.co.uk/fileadmin/files_jef-europe/JEF_Documents/Leaflet_FLAG_new.pdf A nice
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 October 2007 It happens quite often, but not always so visibly, that European decisions have an impact on everyday life. An important and recent
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A story in the Sunday Telegraph today about possible changes to British passports: read it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/nqueen109.xml The gist of the proposal is that new EU passports should include a
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Just back from a weekend seminar in Switzerland, to mark the 60th anniversaries of Winston’s Churchill’s famous speech in Zurich (which you can read here) and of the adoption of
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
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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It’s taken me two days to get over watching Boris Johnson on the subject of the Roman empire before I could sit down to write a blog entry about it.
A fascinating presentation this morning by the Edelman public relations company of their 2006 Trust Barometer. This is a survey of opinion around the world of the extent to which
