EU Constitution

A Day of Reflection for America

aina.org     Jul 4, 2008   1 related          

On this Fourth of July of our discontent -- with spiraling fuel prices, a sluggish economy, a weak dollar, mounting foreign and domestic debt, continuing costs in Iraq, a falling stock market, and a mortgage crisis -- we should...                    

Pactio Olisipiensis Censenda Est

gatesofvienna.blogspot.com     Jul 3, 2008   705 related          

The Irish have really put a spanner into the works of the EU. As Dymphna reported the other night, the presidents of Germany and Poland are now declining to sign the Treaty of Lisbon, due to the intransigence of those Gaelic...                    

Analysis: Bad start for Sarkozy's EU Presidency

cnn.com     Jul 2, 2008   44 related          

Nicolas Sarkozy had intended to take Europe by storm with an exciting new agenda when France inherited the six-month revolving presidency of the EU on July 1. Instead he is being buffeted by storms of others' making, forced...                    

Premptive implementation

openeuropeblog.blogspot.com     Jul 2, 2008          

As Richard North and others have pointed out, the UK Government often scrambles to put EU legislation into practice before it is even agreed in Brussels.The main advantage of this is to make it look like the Government are...                    

Axiology and the Treaty on a Constitution for Europe

atlantic-community.org     Jul 1, 2008          

Dawid Sebastian Bunikowski: The Treaty on a Constitution for Europe in a version presented by d’Estaing is not only a result of a legal and institutional aspect of deeper European integration but also a result of an axiological...                    

Life of Brian is one long dead parrot sketch

unison.ie     Jul 1, 2008          

POST-REFERENDUM, we're all living in a Monty Python world. On the 'Yes' side of the vote, there is Eamon Gilmore and Brian Cowen re-enacting the Dead Parrot sketch: Eamon marches into the Taoiseach's office, brandishing a copy...                    

Better institutions make for better EU (and UEFA)

todayszaman.com     Jun 30, 2008   9 related          

Support for the EU ideal within the EU as well as support for EU membership in Turkey are weakening. As for the reason of growing resistance to EU membership in Turkey, one can propose growing nationalism in the country. On the...                    

Sie debattierten über den Reformvertrag ohne dessen Text zu haben!

astrologieklassisch.wordpress.com     Jun 30, 2008          

In England entschied das Parlament über den “Reformvertrag” ohne daß zu beginn der Debatte die Englischen Abgeordneten den Text dieses Reformvertrages in ihrer Sprache vorliegen hatten! When the House of Commons discussed the...                    

English MP did not have text of Lisbon Treaty available as parliamentary debate began

astrologieklassisch.wordpress.com     Jun 30, 2008   3 related          

Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament, writes in his Blog: When the House of Commons discussed the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, it became evident that not a single MP had read it. I don’t blame them: the text...                    

Gordon Brown has taken Labour to the edge of extinction

bloggers4labour.org     Jun 27, 2008   330 related          

I wrote this article for the Guardian's "Comment is Free" website yesterday. It has just gone up. I wrote it before the Henley by-election result which demonstrates even further the potential political wipe out Labour is now...