Democracy & the EU – Senator de Burca speaks at The Heinrich Boell Foundation’s conference on democracy in Bremen, Germany.

August 10, 2009

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Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
I feel very privileged to be asked to speak here tonight on this very interesting and important topic. I suppose that I am in a good position [...]

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Speech in Bremen, Germany for Heinrich Boll Foundation on Democracy and the EU

August 10, 2009

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
I feel very privileged to be asked to speak here tonight on this very interesting and important topic. I suppose that I am in a good position to try to answer this question, as we had a very active public debate in Ireland last year about the EU during the campaign [...]

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Greening the European Economy

August 10, 2009

The European Union represents, in GDP terms, the world’s largest economy. However, in real terms the EU is a Single Market or Free Trade area, comprising many different national economies. To date, it has not been very meaningful to speak about the “European economy”. However, this is likely to change as EU Member States face [...]

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