There can be no denying the somewhat surreal nature of the efforts being made to persuade the people of the Republic of Ireland to approve the European Union's
John Palmer reviews What's Wrong With the European Union and How to Fix it by Simon Hix.
(Hix, 2008, Polity Press, 228pp)
In the midst of what has
The prospect of a two-speed Europe could turn the Irish back to Europe
On New Year's Day, 1 January 2008, the presidency of the European Union will pass for the first time ever to one of the so-called "new member-states&
After six years of nervous, ill-tempered wrangling and episodic threats to wreck the entire European Union venture, a new EU reform treaty was agreed by the union's twenty-seven
Shakespeare would surely have described the European council meeting in Brussels on 21-22 June 2007, and the new reform treaty it finally approved in outline, as Much Ado about Rather
With only twenty-four hours to go before the start of the crucial summit of European Union heads of state and government in Brussels on 21-22 June 2007 - intended to
The popping of champagne corks, the concerts and the speeches in Berlin on the weekend of 24-25 March 2007 were designed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of
The momentum behind closer European integration may have weakened but the creation and development of transnational economic and political communities is becoming very much the fashion in many parts of
Britain's problems with adapting to globalisation - managing sustainable development, confronting climate change and energy security, balancing competitiveness with social cohesion - are not unique. They are shared
The government of Finland - which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union - is making an all-out effort to ensure that negotiations with Turkey on its application
The European Union may - just may - be on the cusp of unveiling a foreign and security policy towards the most explosive issues in the middle east which marks
