Oh shit (again)
We have been here before. Here is what I wrote after the No vote in France three years ago: http://federalunion.org.uk/oh-shit/. Much of the same applies now after the Irish No […]
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A matter of respect
By Richard Laming There has been some interesting Eurosceptic criticism lately of the European Parliament’s vote against an amendment “to respect the outcome of the referendum in Ireland” on the
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Treaty boost for expanding EU
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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Referendum vote
By Richard Laming Published in the Daily Telegraph, 20 September 2007 Sir, Two referendum questions, on the reform treaty and separately on EU membership, would cause more confusion, not less (Letters,
What do the referendum campaigners really want?
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 10 September 2007 Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the people who normally complain the most that the EU is obsessed with
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What do the referendum campaigners really want?
By Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the people who normally complain the most that the EU is obsessed with
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Orderly transition?
There is some confusion in the press today about whether or not there will be a referendum in the UK on the successor to the constitutional treaty. Tony Blair has
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Merkel’s headache
By Richard Laming Published in The Prague Post, 14 February 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel probably didn’t get the reception she had hoped for when she visited Prague in January. She
Ratification is not an optional extra
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 7 February 2007 Of all the problems with the convention/IGC process that delivered the constitutional treaty, one of the biggest is that it did not
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Strategy and action of the UEF
By Richard Laming Based on a speech, given at the Ventotene seminar, 7 September 2006 It is of course a pleasure to come to Ventotene to speak about the strategy
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