The foreign minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, provoked a storm in a meeting with his counterparts from France and Italy yesterday, rejecting the European approach to the problems of the […]
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Read an article by Sergio Pistone, professor of the history of international relations at the University of Turin, on the role of Altiero Spinelli in the unification of Europe. pistoneonspinelli
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By John Parry Seventy years ago, on 16 June 1940, the British government under Winston Churchill took the remarkable step of offering complete and indissoluble political union with France. The
A complete and indissoluble union Read More »
I was asked to give a talk to the politics society at Royal Holloway college in Egham a couple of weeks ago, on the future of the EU after the
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Twenty years on from the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, some of the stories of the time are now coming out. The British Foreign Office has published some papers
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By Richard Laming The scale and nature of the recent crash in the financial markets is leading to a rethink of the present model of economics and regulation. Can it
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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
By Thomas Lane The first assumption of this paper is that regionalism is not enough. It is a necessary but not a sufficient response to global problems. These are becoming
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It was an interesting exercise, looking at the statements on foreign policy by the candidates for president of the United States. (Read the analysis here.) One thing that struck me
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On this day, 18 years ago, the Berlin Wall was finally breached. Today, the new Europe finally comes of age. And how things have changed. In the last 18 years,
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