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EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY: The speech the Queen SHOULD have made

How irrelevant is the Queen's Speech in the modern Parliamentary calendar? Is it being overshadowed by leaks and other political events? Here we set out the speech that the Queen should have delivered.

Copycat Revolutionaries: France's Brand New 'Left Party'

Over the weekend, ex-Socialist minister Jean-Luc Mélenchon held the "founding meeting" for a new left-wing political force in France. He was joined by a thousand supporters, including Oskar Lafontaine, founder of the German...

New Irish vote on Lisbon 'legal'

A committee of MPs in the Republic of Ireland has concluded that a second Irish referendum on the EU's hotly disputed Lisbon Treaty is feasible. Irish voters rejected the reform treaty in a referendum in June. But the...

Mayor: Europe 'needs simple language'

The negative referendum on the EU Constitution in 2005 was a lesson learned for Ivo Opstelten, mayor of Rotterdam, who launched a citizens' initiative to put what Europe is all about into simple language. He spoke to EurActiv...

Czech Court Rules EU's Lisbon Treaty is Constitutional

The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic has rejected a complaint against the EU's reform treaty. The decision clears the way for the Czechs -- and perhaps other member states -- to ratify the document.

Strictly Dumb Democracy

In showing such contempt for the popular will, those dance judges were only taking their lead from ministers and officials in the UK and EU. Part of the reason so many people enjoyed the John Sergeant business was that it...

European Fantasies

Barack Obama's election as president has triggered hysterically high hopes at home and abroad. The frenzied reaction of Europeans to his victory belies the tough issues that he, like any incoming president, will have to...

Q&A: The Lisbon Treaty

A big question mark hangs over the future of the Lisbon Treaty - the set of institutional reforms aimed at streamlining the work of the enlarged European Union. The treaty was rejected by Irish voters in a referendum on 12 June...

Timeline: Slovakia

A chronology of key events 1993 January - Parliament elects Michal Kovac of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (MDS) president. Vladimir Meciar, also of the MDS, is prime minister in coalition government. New coalition led...

Ganley: All citizens should have vote on EU constitution

The head of Libertas has told TDs and Senators that any proposed European Constitution should be put to a vote in every EU member state. Declan Ganley was speaking this morning during an appearance before the Oireachtas...

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