By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 24 January 2008 Sir, The proposal by the consultancy Europe Economics that the most cost-effective way of reducing carbon emissions within the European […]
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Published in The Guardian, 21 January 2008 As supporters of the Coalition for the Reform Treaty we encourage MPs of all political parties to support the bill to ratify the EU
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Euromyth alert. A rather bizarre document, purporting to be a summary of the Reform Treaty, has appeared on the internet, with a series of absurd and outlandish claims. You can
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The overwhelming sentiment from the year just gone must be one of relief. Relief that the EU finally agreed the Lisbon Treaty and got its institutional progress back on track.
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Another signing ceremony for another treaty. I cast my mind back to the signing of the Constitutional Treaty in Rome in June 2004, when my Italian hosts (I was in
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Published in The Guardian, 13 December 2007 We welcome signing, expected today, of the reform treaty by the UK government and other EU member states. The treaty will equip the EU
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The Treaty of Lisbon (formerly known as the Reform Treaty) was signed on 13 December 2007 and it marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. Each successive step since the
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Submission by Federal Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee inquiry into the impact of the Reform Treaty on the institutions of the EU. Federal Union addresses three
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I was asked yesterday about whether Tony Blair might be a suitable candidate to become the first ever elected president of the European Council. The post is created in the
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The difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content. The draft constitution resulted from a political desire to simplify European institutions,
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