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| Wednesday 7 November 2007 |
Zoe’s ark: the dangers of ‘DIY humanitarianism’
The 'kidnap' scandal involving a French charity in Chad is a product of the reckless self-righteousness of humanitarian interventionism.
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| Thursday 28 June 2007 |
Europe: whose Treaty is it anyway?
The people of Europe should have the ultimate say over any EU Treaty. Yet some of those calling for a referendum on the matter are driven by an anti-democratic impulse.
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| Monday 14 May 2007 |
How scary is Sarkozy?
The European left is fast turning the French president into the new bogeyman of Europe. Yet his power base and political programme are not as coherent as they claim.
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| Thursday 3 May 2007 |
The EU is also ‘firing bullets’ at Turkish democracy
The Turkish army is not alone in seeking to override the democratic process in Turkey in order to get the right result.
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| Wednesday 4 April 2007 |
‘We all are children of France’
Days of Glory has a less-than-subtle political message: we should all be good patriots now, regardless of our skin colour.
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| Thursday 17 August 2006 |
What will follow Fidel?
When Castro fell ill there was a fevered debate about what will happen to Cuba when he dies. In fact, much ‘transition’ has already occurred.
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| Thursday 13 April 2006 |
In the shadow of the Fifth Republic
The French student protests might be lively, but they have failed to break free of the politics of the past.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2005 |
Learning from les rosbifs?
You know the political malaise in France is bad when they start looking to moribund Britain for inspiration.
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| Monday 23 May 2005 |
The European ‘social model’ - non merci!
Measures such as the Working Time Directive make a virtue out of economic exhaustion.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2005 |
The end of the EU romance
Euro-elites can't decide whether enlargement is a new dawn, or if it's already exhausted.
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| Monday 21 February 2005 |
Euro-elites desperately seeking demos
The EU constitution expresses the will of a phantom European public.
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| Wednesday 10 November 2004 |
No ‘spectator nation’
Turmoil in the Ivory Coast puts paid to the claim that France is anti-war.
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| Tuesday 19 October 2004 |
The cultural curtain
Europe's tortured debate about Turkey exposes the fragile state of the EU.
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| Thursday 13 May 2004 |
Waking up after the enlargement party
The new EU members have fallen under the dead hand of bureaucracy.
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