When is a constitution not a constitution but a reform treaty? Maybe when politicians want to avoid a referendum they fear they will lose. Come and debate the future of the EU. Does the Reform Treaty represent the triumph of the European idea, or does it signify the exhaustion of domestic political elites? Will the new member states bring political, social, economic and cultural dynamism, or conservatism, to Europe? How will the potential entry of Turkey affect our traditional conception of Europe and what the EU is for?
Unless Europe gets its act together, the world will continue to ignore itTo really count as a political entity, to speak with a clear voice in the world, the EU needs to find find a way to avoid deferring to the interests of its member states
Timothy Garton Ash,
Guardian, 20 June 2007
EU referendum petition passes 100,000 markReport on the Telegraph's 'I want a refendum' campaign
Christopher Hope,
Telegraph, 26 September 2007
If EU referendums are taboo, what then?The problem with the legitimacy of the EU derives not from citizens' anti-Europeanism, but their distrust of their national governments
Toger Seidenfaden,
EUobserver, 2 October 2007
Depicting Europe'The emergence of the Union may be regarded as the last great world-historical achievement of the bourgeoisie'
Perry Anderson,
London Review of Books, 20 September 2007
The EU: Treaty, Referendum, Immigration, Security and Foreign PolicyWatch Claire Fox News examine several issues around the European Union.
Claire Fox News, 18 Doughty Street TV, 8 October 2007
Europa and the bull: a lesson for European democracyReduced to electing representatives to the European parliament, democracy in the EU is short-changed. Is it not time to allow the popular will to express itself?
Peter Sain ley Berry,
EUobserver, 27 September 2007
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