Lessons from WikiLeaks
The classified documents leaked from the US State Department will cause a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people – the British government minister denounced as a “hound dog” […]
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Don’t let the lobbyists register drop off the agenda
by Daisy Cross The expenses scandal did much to expose the less attractive side of British politics, the steady, unrelenting trickle of data leaving no party unaffected, and many believe
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The wisdom of crowds
One of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than
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Building European democracy
By Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – You can tell a lot about a political system from the buildings it erects to house its decision-makers. They provide a literally concrete
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Symbol of a closed order
A news story in EUobserver last week on the plans for a new building for the Council of Ministers reminded me of the issues we raised the last time the
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What does the Manifesto Club propose instead?
A new publication denounces the European Union’s Brussels establishment (or perhaps that should read Establishment) for its contemptuous attitude towards the public. Bruno Waterfield and Chris Bickerton are critical of
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How Europe takes financial decisions
The Daily Telegraph kindly published a letter from me today on the unfolding financial crisis, but edited it so as to delete the main point I was trying to make.
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Transparency works both ways
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 30 January 2008 The meeting in London on Tuesday between the government leaders of Europe’s biggest economies called for more transparency in the financial institutions,
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News from Lisbon about the new treaty
A report from the House of Commons European Scrutiny committee earlier this month complained about the procedure that had been followed in drawing up the new Reform Treaty. It objected
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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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