The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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Energy is an oddity in the field of European policymaking. For some years now, and not only in the UK, national resistance to Brussels has been growing. Politicians win votes by standing up to the steamroller of Europe rather than by advocating closer ties and more integration. The rejection of the proposed European constitution in such unlikely places as France was only a stark symbol of much wider tendencies.
Yet the European Commission can plausibly argue — as in its ener…
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