Book Review:
The Tainted Source
by John Laughland
A while back, I discovered that my great-grandfather’s estate in Ukraine, Apanlee, figures in a novel which is something of a favourite among neo-Nazis and Aryan supremacists. This led me to a number of websites that I wouldn’t regularly have frequented, including the Zundelsite and Stormfront’s webpage. There [...]

Writing in The Guardian under the headline ‘Why I am no longer a European’ Max Hastings explains why, though he remains committed to the idea of Europe, he can no longer support the Constituion. His feelings, I think, represent a growing tendency of people throughout current and future members of the EU to support the [...]

European summit ends in failure
EU constitution talks set to fail
Es ist vorbei
Echec des n?gociations sur la Constitution europ?enne
Wlosi oglaszaja fiasko negocjacji
Update:
Liberum veto, an old Polish custom with unfortunate precedents and consequences.

Is that there won’t be a compromise under the Italian Presidency. I remeber hearing a few weeks back that the Irish government has been making plans to finish up the IGC’s business during its six months at the helm.
How much of the current worry is due to Berlusconi’s initial fumbles? Six months disappear awfully [...]

As next weekend’s Brussels EU summit about the constitution is approaching quickly, it’s only too normal that all national players are digging their trenches and defence lines by publicly downplaying the importance of an agreement if the “national price to be paid is too high” while Europhiles of all nations are trying to increase pressure [...]

British MEP Nick Clegg has an article in today’s Guardian, putting forward the argument that MEPs and the European Parliament are a lot more powerful than people give them credit for.
But the parliament most certainly isn’t irrelevant or unimportant. In the four years I’ve been an MEP, we have adopted legislation stopping cosmetics being tested [...]

For some reason, I stopped covering the constitution when I started AFOE. Since Cosmocrat has been on hiatus for two months, and Henry Farrell after joining CT generally restricts himself to subjects the US bloggers care about, there’s barely been any informed discussion of these things in the blogosphere, that I know of. That’s a [...]

(Published, then removed earlier version of this when i meant to save it as a draft. Apologies for the confusion.)
Yahoo! News - EU Agrees Drugs Law, Dutch ‘Coffee’ Shops Survive
This shows just how much policy is made in Brussels nowadays. This happens to be real bad policy, too (the small posession stuff.) But regardless of [...]

Ok, so I do have something to say about the stability pact.
The pact was so flawed that this may have been preferable to actually doing what was supposed to be done, but that does not mean this new “pretend it ’s raining” policy is anything short of terrible. This is astunning failure of political leadership [...]

First of all, let me say I’m flattered to be invited to guest-blog on Fistful of Euros, which I’ve long thought was the coolest name of any blog ever.
I’d hazard a guess at two big reasons nobody has much to say about the security pact unraveling: First, there’s simply not that much to say [...]