New Labour in Europe
Anita Pollack, former MEP and author of New Labour in Europe – leadership and lost opportunities Andrew Duff, former Liberal Democrat MEP
Anita Pollack, former MEP and author of New Labour in Europe – leadership and lost opportunities Andrew Duff, former Liberal Democrat MEP
Jackie Minor, Head of Representation, European Commission Representation in the UK Wayne David, Labour MP for Caerphilly Neil Carmichael, Conservative MP for Stroud Sir Stephen Wall, former European adviser to the British Prime Minister Baroness Julie Smith, Senior Lecturer, Department of [...]
Richard Bassett, Author Francis Tusa, Defence Journalist Professor Stephen Haseler, Director, Global Policy Institute
Andrew Smith, Economist Rod Dowler, Chair, Industry Forum
Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Dr Michael Lloyd, Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute
Video message by Peter Sutherland KCMG, President of the Federal Trust and UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Migration and Development: Dipti Pardeshi, Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration, London Office: Professor Brad Blitz, Senior Fellow at the Global Migration [...]
Contribution by Brendan Donnelly to the LSE project “Hacking the UK Constitution”, https://constitutionuk.com/ Federalism, what federalism? It might be expected that the Federal Trust would welcome the willingness of politicians and commentators after the Scottish referendum to consider seriously what they describe as “federal” structures for the United Kingdom. There [...]
Ever since the late 1990s the Federal Trust has held conferences and seminars on the British constitution with specific reference to devolution. A significant number of books and papers have been published, including in 2006 “Modernising British Government” written by Professor Stanley Henig and with a foreword by Roy Hattersley. [...]
Devolution has ‘knock-on’ implications for many aspects of the UK constitution. The United Kingdom may still be classified as a unitary state, but the relationship of the devolved institutions of Scotland, Wales and (when operating) Northern Ireland with the Whitehall/Westminster nexus will gradually acquire many quasi-federal features. Federalism has a [...]
About European Essays The Federal Trust produces a series of bi-monthly European Essays (ISSN 1468-9049) with the aim of enlightening the debate on good governance. Since 1999, this thought-provoking series has included a wide spectrum of contributors, among them: Iain Begg, John Bruton, Andrew Duff, Valéry Giscard D'Estaing, Joschka Fischer, [...]