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Things I have posted recently
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.5. The Utilitarians I: Elie Halévy and the Philosophical Radicals 1750-1867. 12/02/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity. 29/03/2022
- The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus. 03/02/2022
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages. 30/06/2021
- The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410. 26/02/2021
- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. 16/12/2020
- The UK Internal Market Bill: Supranational v. International law 14/09/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability. 11/07/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform. 27/06/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power. 16/05/2020
- China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia 25/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism? 09/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part IV. The pre-1945 Roots of British Supranationalism. 10/01/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part III. Efficiency, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Bureaucracy. 02/12/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament: Part IV. New law or constitutional aberration? 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part III. Assessment. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part II. The Arguments for and against. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part I: Definitions and timeline. 06/11/2019
- Apocalypse and Guilt: Why Savonarola and Greta differ. 01/10/2019
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part II. The Whig spirit of the Old Constitution. 21/08/2019
Tag Archives: internal market
Whitehall and Westminster will not, do not want, and cannot deliver the result of the June 23, 2016 referendum.
The Brexit talks have been lumbering on, as the Prime Minister makes her oral commitments to the British public and then proceeds to rescind them. The UK, she has reiterated, will be leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, United Kingdom
Tagged EU, Euro, Europe, European integration, France, Germany, Globalization, internal market, supranationalism, UK
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 5: France’s voyage from state to market
France’s voyage from state to market. As with Germany, the years prior to 1945 cast a long shadow over post-war France. The defeat of 1940 was blamed by both Vichy and the Resistance on the failings of a liberal economy. … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union: Chapter 3. The Rise of the DM
The rise of the DM. As Germany acquired formal, then effective sovereignty in Europe, France moved away from de Gaulle’s attempt to impose French primacy in the EEC, to accommodating Germany as a special partner in the 1970s, then to … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 2. Early years: France, the EEC, and the UK
Early years: France, the EEC, and the UK. A simple starting point is to observe that Europe and the EU are not the same thing. The EU has expanded from the founding six, to nine, then twelve, to fifteen and … Continue reading
Ken Clarke’s Memoirs and the June 23 Brexit referendum
Sooner or later, we are going to get very bored by Brexit, but not for a while, given the number of publications pouring from the presses. Here are two books on the subject. Ken Clarke’s Kind of Blue: A Political … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, Italy, Oil, the Mid East and Gulf, United Kingdom
Tagged Euro, European integration, France, Germany, internal market, the EU, UK
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Major speeches on Bremain and Brexit
The campaign on the referendum for the UK to Remain or to Leave the EU is heating up. There is a lot of noise, and a good deal of mud slinging. There are suggestions from the Remain camp that were … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, United Kingdom, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Brexit, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, interdependence, internal market, Remain, the EU, UK
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The idea of the Core: The dialectics of History and Space’, in: The European Union and the Agenda of 1996, editors: Geoffrey Edwards, Alfred Pijpers, Pinter, London. (1997).
Once Europe’s division came to an end, it was clear to me that the only way of fashioning a viable European polity was eclecticism, contained by a common duty of European governments to co-operate on a multitude of things, but not … Continue reading
Posted in France and Germany
Tagged cold war, diplomacy, EU, France, Germany, internal market, Maastricht Treaty, neo-functionalism, visions of Europe.
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“The origins, launching and consequences of ‘1992’ and the Euro: The politics of economic and monetary integration in Europe”in Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Asia, eds Douglas Webber, Bertrand Fort, Routledge, 2005.
Here is a chapter of mine, published in 2005, about the origins of the Euro. I am publishing it in the light of the ongoing saga about the Euro’s future, the Greek meltdown, discussions of a possible “Transferunion”, and efforts … Continue reading
Posted in Europe
Tagged capital markets, EU, Euro, European integration, exchange rates, internal market, spillover effect
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