A president for Europe
A campaign has been launched to merge the post of president of the European Commission with the new post of president of the European Council created under the Lisbon treaty. […]
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Europe’s leaders should copy Bush?
Janet Daley wrote in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week (read it here) that the British people will not “accept rule by unelected continental bureaucracy and ministerial fiat, which is
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Shortcuts
If anyone out there is puzzled by the complicated nature of the European Union institutions, this latest report by the BBC isn’t going to help. Referring to the Commission as
Roy Jenkins (1920-2003)
With the death of Roy Jenkins we have lost one of Britain’s greatest Europeans. As for so many of his generation, the experience of the Second World War left him
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Months and not years
This blog has reported before on the commitment by the Conservative party to leave the EPP in the European Parliament, and also on William Hague’s recent speech on his party’s
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Power
Apparently Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, is the most powerful man in Britain. A poll of listeners to the Radio 4 Today programme said so, so it
Political parties should nominate own candidates
By Richard Laming Published in the Financial Times, 3 July 2004 Sir, John Szemerey (Letters, June 26) proposes that candidates for president of the European Commission should contest the European elections,
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Let’s vote for the Commission president?
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 28 April 2004 The British government has just declared that it thinks that the Chinese government should allow the people of Hong Kong to
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No surprise if the Commission has an end-of-term feeling
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 1 April 2004 Reports filter out that European Commissioners are starting to think about political jobs in their member states. This is hardly a surprise.
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Connect political power to votes cast
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 23 March 2004 The United Kingdom is caught up in not one but twoconstitutional debates at the moment, and there is an interesting link between
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