Trusting the EU
By Richard Laming Published in The Times, 27 April 2007 Sir, It is wrong to depict the European Union as a one-way ratchet towards greater integration (“Just say ‘Non’, April 25). […]
nature of the EU
Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy?
By John Preston The question asks: “Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy? – and to discuss (implicitly) the democratic deficit? – and the future of the Treaty?
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Fifty years of the European Union
Based on a talk given by Richard Laming to the Eastbourne branch of the European Movement, 24 January 2007 I was going to start off this talk by saying that
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Should we stay or should we go?
Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the Henrietta Barnett School, 13 November 2006. Thank you for the invitation to explain why Britain benefits from membership of the European
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Thinking about Europe
Keith Tunstall reviews “Thinking about Europe”, by Roger Woodhouse “Thinking about Europe”, by Roger Wodhouse (Thumbnail Publications) ISBN: 0955022304 This slim book belies its appearance. It is not a popular
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Present at the creation
John Parry reviews “The accidental constitution”, by Peter Norman (published by EuroComment, Brussels), and “The struggle for Europe’s constitution”, by Andrew Duff (published by the Federal Trust) From the start,
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Disparate visions of the EU’s role
Published in The Times, 22 September 2004 By Richard Laming Sir, The hegemony of Nazi-ruled Europe was not federalist (letter, September 18) but nationalist. The Europe of the 1930s was uniting not by
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The European governance and the future of the European Union
Richard Laming spoke at the Ventotene seminar in September 2004 about European governance and the nature and the future of the European Union. “I think it is important to be
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The idea of Europe
By Will Hutton Today’s European Union is a remarkable, if still incomplete, achievement. Its founding six members have been augmented by another nine and up to ten additional countries in eastern
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EU points the way forward
By John Stevens First published in the Financial Times – 19 February 2003 Sir, The Spanish foreign minister (“EU divisions over Iraq can be mended”, February 17) justifies her government’s
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