Dear Europa, Now then, Europa dear, I hope you’ve got over that nasty business with my grandson. I’ve always thought he went too far, too often. I hope you’ll be prepared to see my point of view sympathetically despite the lines of kinship between me and Mr Can’t-Keep-It-In-His-Pants. You see, Europa, as the Earth goddess, […]
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Let’s assume that our readership is intelligent enough to know the answer to this question is ‘probably not’, but you’ve been drawn in by the phrasing. Let’s also assume that the question isn’t totally ridiculous, i.e. that the EU has some kind of problem, at the very least at the level of how it is perceived. Certainly, […]
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This is a chapter from an e-volume edited by Robert W. Murray & Alasdair McKay, published on 20 January 2014 by e-IR and available at: http://www.e-ir.info/2014/01/20/edited-collection-r2p-syria-and-humanitarianism-in-crisis/ The human suffering in the Syrian crisis since February 2011 is above all a tragedy for the Syrian people, but also demonstrably a crisis of international intervention. The international community has failed to […]
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Yesterday and today see the organisation of a large conference in London, organised by Open Europe and the Fresh Start group of Tory MPs. Entitled a ‘pan-European conference for EU reform‘, it proudly announces that it brings together speakers from across the EU to discuss how to change the Union. The big draw on yesterday’s […]
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The Christmas period was generally quite quiet in matters European, as most took an opportunity to gather themselves for what will be a busy year of European elections and the selection of new senior EU officials. UKIP was a partial confirmation of this. Just after Christmas, Nigel Farage made an announcement that caught a fair bit […]
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It’s time for the final blog post of the calendar year for me, as I prepare for the Christmas break. My mind naturally turns towards thinking back over the past 12 months and I find myself looking at a situation much like that a year ago. Last Christmas, the talk was of Cameron’s much-trailed speech, […]
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