By Brendan Donnelly During the past month it has become much clearer how Mr Blair at least hopes that the politically difficult question of the European constitutional treaty will be
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By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 5 December 2006 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has not always sought popularity among his fellow EU finance ministers. On the eve of
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On present plans, the German Presidency in the first half of next year will conclude its work with a European Council at which a procedure and timetable will be adopted
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As Gordon Brown gets closer to becoming prime minister and accordingly tries to accentuate his Englishness, his opponents are trying to raise the barrier of his being Scottish. The latest
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More on Tony Blair’s speech in Oxford last Thursday (which you can read here). He declares that: “The vision is the one I share with Europe’s founders: an ever closer
Blair and the founding fathers Read More »
James Stewart gave the performance of his life as a political outsider arriving at the seat of power and determined to play by his rules rather than those of the
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