Voluntary cooperation
The fact that the Lisbon treaty is currently going through parliament has given Eurosceptics a new opportunity to object to the fact that the EU is based on supranational institutions […]
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European foreign policy
The thrill of power
Some interesting speculation by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times yesterday on the motivations of politicians. They want excitement – like anyone else, I suppose – and they find excitement
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Richard Holbrooke: Europe is better off today institutionally than it was at any time in the last century
“If the EU is serious about having an effective single European voice in world affairs, it must deal with certain legacies inherited from the way it grew up. There are
John McCain: Americans should welcome the rise of a strong, confident European Union
“Americans should welcome the rise of a strong, confident European Union. The future of the transatlantic relationship lies in confronting the challenges of the twenty-first century worldwide: developing a common
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Who wants to be a superpower?
The discussion following foreign secretary David Miliband’s speech in Bruges on 15 November was all about the prime minister’s intervention in the text. In case you missed it, the version
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Stelzer displays a profound misunderstanding of the EU
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 23 August 2007 Sir, Irwin Stelzer’s misrepresentation of the new European Union reform treaty should not go unanswered. The EU would represent the
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President Putin teaches Europe a lesson
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 25 July 2007 The diplomatic dispute between Britain and Russia brings back unmistakeable echoes of the cold war. A Russian defector is brutally and mysteriously
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Three subjects in search of a theme
Discussion on 18 Doughty Street this evening ranged far and wide, but I kept trying to get a European angle into the debate. (18 Doughty Street is an internet TV
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A treaty for foreign policy
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 28 June 2007 The successful European treaties all have a theme. The Single European Act created the single market, the Maastricht treaty gave us the
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Niall Ferguson: Europe must stop fighting itself
The world is a big, bad place and the relative importance of Europe’s individual states is declining economically and demographically with every passing year. As Mr Mandelson has found, it
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