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JEF Netherlands - Exciting Times
I wanted to share with you all a week of teaching I was part of in November of last year. JEF was involved in a project called Young Ideas for Europe. We engaged with a 'high' school in Den Haag and presented them with the challenge to come up with p...
Europe: Between Isolation and Solidarity - A Reply
This is in response to an article published on The New Federalist Webzine the other day.Amongst most pro-Europeans it is commonly held that criticism is more sharply dealt than by Euro-skeptics. This is simply on the basis that such criticisms do not...
Project Mobility 4X4
Having just watched the last in the current series of Top Gear (UK) I was amazed to see one of the best ideas for those brave men and women injured in the front lines of Afghanistan. Soldiers who are wounded and who have had aggressive amputation sur...
Stress and State Finances
A smug feeling must have pervaded through the Square Mile of London on Friday, when none of the major English banks failed the ECB stress tests. This is however only a slither of a much longer drama being played out in both the financial markets and...
New Look & Relaunch
As you may have noticed, the blog has had a summer spruce. Just to fill you in on a couple of points, I'm now a board member of the JEF Leiden Section newly created in the Netherlands. (Young European Federalists). Don't despair as to the title, I've...
Coke, EU and Skeptics - Europe has a bit of an image problem.
14th July 2011 - We are bombarded by images all day long, be it on TV, the internet or the simple bus-stop billboard. The most famous of all being that of Coca Cola - after reading an interesting piece in yesterday’s Euractiv (http://goo.gl/HA4BQ)...
Mulling over a Cup of Coffee and the UK's perception of the EU
It has been some time since I lasted posted, but I will attempt to remedy this.This morning I was reading the Daily Telegraph and read something interesting about how the Coalition is seeking to harmonise food labelling requirements. Now the piece it...
AV in the UK: No-one really understands it
Today I read in the Daily Telegraph a blog by Ed West. I have to admit that as much as I sympathise with the sentiment of the article, I felt like the EU was given a rough ride. As a lawyer myself, I felt an acute injustice over the idea that anyone...
In the beginning...
I'm new to the world of blogging in such a fashion, for many years I have posted on various UK newspaper websites on a wide variety of political topics. As the title of this blog explains I am a contradiction in terms, a Euro-centric Conservative. Fo...
