by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust This article was first published on the LSE BrexitVote blog. When the Conservative members of the European Parliament first formed in the early 1990s a joint parliamentary group with the MEPs from the European Peoples Party, there was a certain condescending [...]
by Monica Threlfall (writing in a personal capacity), Reader in European Politics, London Metropolitan University The Leave people are always saying they want “our sovereignty back“. But for what purpose? What is this sovereignty and for whom is it supposed to work? Not for ordinary people. Sovereignty is a [...]
by Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE Ideas Further referendums on Britain’s European question could happen whatever the result of June’s vote. In a recent report for the Federal Trust, Why the EU Referendum Will Not be the End of the Story, Dr Tim Oliver [...]
by Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE Ideas This article was first published by Democratic Audit UK. London is the UK’s undiscovered country and it is time we recognised it as the UK’s fifth constituent part by granting it the devolved political powers it deserves. [...]
The EU provides often-overlooked economic benefits for the UK By Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Programme & Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute. The big campaigns for the UK to stay in or leave the EU paint pictures of alternative futures with a large brush. ‘We [...]
EVEL and federation 27 October 2015 By Dr Andrew Blick Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust After some delay, the government has now implemented changes to House of Commons procedure known as ‘English Votes for [...]
by Baroness Quin, House of Lords; Council Member of the Federal Trust 4th August 2015 This article first appeared on the European Movement website. One of the biggest myths about the circumstances in which Britain joined the EEC (as it was then) in 1972 was that what we were being [...]
Removing regulatory burdens to make the EU more user-friendly By Richard Seebohm, former Representative in Brussels of the Quaker Council for European Affairs June 2015 As Samuel Johnson once said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. I wonder if the term sovereignty is not tarred with the same [...]
By Zach Paikin There is a perception among many politicians and commentators in the United Kingdom that federalism is an entirely prescriptive and rule-bound system, in which all contingencies are precisely described and defined in advance. This couldn’t be further from the truth. An examination of the history of federalism [...]
by Brendan Donnelly This article first appeared on euroblog, the Blog of the European Movement: http://euromove.blogactiv.eu/ During the referendum on voting reform in 2011, it was sometimes claimed by advocates of the present British electoral system, misleadingly known as “first past the post,” that it tended to produce definite [...]
