Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe

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Is the European Parliament really a serious parliament ?

September 10, 2017

Over the years, step by step, the European Parliament has won a share of real constitutional power. At times, as in 1984 with the Spinelli Draft Treaty and in 2002-03 in the Convention on the Future of Europe, Parliament has had a decisive influence on the constitutive development of the European Union. At other times,… » read more

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Coping with the British: here’s how

September 7, 2015

This article argues that the UK government’s renegotiation bid is too feeble to be deserving of concessions by its EU partners, but that the rest of the EU can give the British what they seem to want by pressing on themselves to federal union. Is David Cameron really serious about renegotiating the terms of the… » read more

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Suck it and See: Scotland and after

September 22, 2014

Winning the referendum on Scottish independence has thrown the British Establishment into a mighty tither. Only the Queen, whose mother was a Scot, emerges with dignity intact. Not that things would have been very much calmer if the answer had been Yes rather than No. The fact is that without a written constitution to regulate… » read more

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Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe

President of the Spinelli Group. Visiting Fellow, European Policy Centre. Liberal Democrat MEP 1999-2014.


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