11 02, 2015

Federalism: What the United Kingdom Can Learn from Canada

By |2015-02-11T16:53:26+00:00February 11th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Federalism, UK Devolution|

By Zach Paikin In the wake of the Scottish referendum, many in the United Kingdom are beginning to discuss a federal future for their country. Constitutionally stable federalism has been a frequent legacy of Britain’s global history, from Canada to Australia to the United States. Canadians in particular, as a [...]

6 01, 2015

Federalism, what Federalism?

By |2015-02-11T16:48:50+00:00January 6th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Federalism, UK Devolution|

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 [...]

14 11, 2014

Blair and Cameron: Two Peas in a European Pod

By |2015-01-16T13:00:42+00:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

A Personal View from Brendan Donnelly It is sometimes said that David Cameron regards Tony Blair as his political model. The European policies of the two Prime Ministers may appear superficially very different. Mr. Blair presented himself as fundamentally favourable to the European Union, and Mr. Cameron is at best [...]

11 11, 2014

The United Kingdom: A Federal Perspective

By |2020-06-02T14:03:53+00:00November 11th, 2014|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

Substantial intellectual contributions to federal analysis have been made by individuals based in the UK; and the UK has participated in the development in many prominent federal constitutions throughout the world, including those of India and Germany. Yet the UK itself is traditionally a unitary state, widely regarded as one [...]

30 10, 2014

Book Review: “Is the EU Doomed?” by Jan Zielonka

By |2015-02-11T16:49:18+00:00October 30th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

Review by Brendan Donnelly Much of this short book by Professor Jan Zielonka of Oxford University is rightly devoted to the euro. It is on the success or failure of the single European currency that the answer to the question of the book’s title “Is the EU doomed?” will essentially [...]

13 06, 2014

Three Cheers for European Democracy

By |2015-01-16T13:01:14+00:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

by Brendan Donnelly If Jean-Claude Juncker becomes the next President of the European Commission, it will mark an important development in the democratic life of the European Union. Millions of voters in the recent European Elections will see their favoured candidate take on one of the most important posts in [...]

29 05, 2014

What do the European Election results really mean?

By |2015-01-16T13:01:42+00:00May 29th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

by Brendan Donnelly First published on the European Movement Blog Predictably, many commentaries in the British mass media have gloatingly presented the European Elections as a continent-wide reject ion of the process of European integration, as the long-ignored peoples of Europe rising up in democratic wrath against their oppressors in [...]

8 05, 2014

There may be trouble ahead

By |2015-01-16T13:01:42+00:00May 8th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

by Brendan Donnelly First published on the European Movement Blog The European Elections are sometimes described by academics and other observers as “secondary” elections, in which the electorate take little notice of the European policies or claimed achievements of those standing for election, but simply express their (often unfavourable) judgements [...]

21 01, 2014

The Wheels Fall Off

By |2015-01-16T13:01:42+00:00January 21st, 2014|Categories: Blog, Europe|

by Brendan Donnelly Until shortly before Christmas, the Prime Minister would have been entitled to congratulate himself on the success of his important speech about Europe on 23rd January 2013 in quieting Conservative controversy and divisions on this subject. The compromise he proposed in it, of a radical renegotiation in [...]

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