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The governments aim to promote social inclusion and community cohesion through initiatives such as youth parliaments and citizenship classes may be undermined because they do not address the fundamental role…
President Chirac, at the recent Brussels summit, has delayed the reform of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy, but he has not, and cannot rule it out indefinitely. He, with the other…
It is difficult to overstate the change to the international security environment that we face at the beginning of the 21st century. For almost half a century, the UK and…
We now know the real price that we will pay for not being in the euro: the 49 billion euros a year that the European Union will continue to pour…
Just as war is too important an issue to be left to the generals, so UK entry to the euro is too big a national question to be confined to…
As diplomacy runs out of time and the carrier battle groups sail into position, western governments are desperate to win over the Arab street. The greatest fear is that a…
In the maelstrom of transatlantic relations unleashed by the present Iraq crisis, one question goes begging: Is there a middle path between the increasingly pacifist, Kantian worldview of Europe and…
Transcript Global Britons Forum - London 27th of March, 2003 Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Senior Researcher at The Foreign Policy Centre and directs The Centre’s Global Britons Programme Speakers: Beverley…
The Unlikely Counter-Terrorists argues that business involvement in counter-terrorism policies and activities is vital to the success of the UK's response. While it is now widely understood that companies are…
The Chirac-Schroeder proposal for the EU Constitution seems an enticing compromise – a Council President elected by the heads of government to appease the ‘intergovernmentalist’ big states, and a Commission…