By Richard Laming Political scientists and commentators specialise in looking for divisions among the members of the European constitutional convention: between large and small countries, between centralisers and decentralisers, between […]
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By Richard Corbett MEP Only once before has an IGC been prepared by a body meeting in public and whose composition included members of national parliaments and the European Parliament.
Memorandum of evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union by Andrew Duff MEP 1. The government appears to be about to make a proposal for
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