Months and not years
This blog has reported before on the commitment by the Conservative party to leave the EPP in the European Parliament, and also on William Hague’s recent speech on his party’s […]
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Ruth Kelly
As the film of The Da Vinci Code is about to open, attention has unsurprisingly returned to Ruth Kelly. You may recall that she is the cabinet minister rumoured to
One seat
A new website has been launched, with a campaign for the European Parliament to be based in Brussels rather than to have to keep moving to Strasbourg for plenary sessions.
Hague in Brussels
William Hague, Conservative shadow foreign secretary, went on a mission to the European Parliament earlier this week looking for partners with whom to form a new centre-right, Eurosceptic political grouping.
High stakes in French referendum
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 May 2005 In the last week before the French people go to the polls to vote on the European constitution, the stakes are getting
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Brussels or Davos?
Interesting discussion with my local European Movement branch this evening on the role of the European Parliament. Our basic concern was that the full extent of the role of the
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European politics comes out of the Commission crisis strengthened
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 22 November 2004 Now that the Barroso Commission has finally received the approval of the European Parliament, it is time to survey the wreckage. Which
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Mr Buttiglione helps to draft an unwritten chapter to the European constitution
By Peter Sain ley Berry In delivering certain ill-advised remarks to the European Parliament about gay men and straight women, Mr Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian Commissioner designate may turn out
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Yes to beat crime
By Richard Laming Published in The Observer, 2 May 2004 Giving more power for the European Parliament need not be at the expense of national parliaments (Comment, last week). What about all
Let’s vote for the Commission president?
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 28 April 2004 The British government has just declared that it thinks that the Chinese government should allow the people of Hong Kong to
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