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The economic rationale for greater collaboration has clearly helped to push longstanding political differences aside. India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, admitted as much with his recent statement that, “ultimately, foreign…
Four years later, I celebrated Schröder's second general election victory in London and, on that occasion, felt nothing more than a surge of relief. This time around, though it pains…
By contrast, the three-party left-wing bloc, led by former Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, but also including the Socialist Left and Centre parties, scored 51.1 per cent, enough to give…
Plagued by image problems around the globe, the United States could use some good news. Such an image boost may be forthcoming from an unlikely place — the Balkans. Richard…
Successive Home Secretaries have found it difficult to define or encourage the notion of ‘British-ness’, even three hundred years after the Union of 1707, when the idea of a ‘Briton’…
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In any Middle Eastern state that has pretensions towards democracy Islamist groups are dominating the political field. The most spectacular example was Hamas’ victory with 56 per cent of the…
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It was a finely judged offer, balancing the minimum acceptable to his European partners, against the maximum which his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, was prepared to concede without…
Yet under the 1985 agreement, it has continued to receive aid approximately equal to what it was getting before from the EU’s regional fund. Last year, the EU contributed around…
Last June the Commission did table a draft Regulation to establish such an agency, but this has been heavily criticised for its minimalist approach, in particular that actions by member…
Yet such an analogy is flawed. The Union is not a mechanical institution that sputters but an organic one that is evolving. Viewed in this light the binary perception of…
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