I have already blogged about the worst aspects of the speech by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (endless expansion of the Union). Nosemonkey is also very unhappy with the speech and Colman on European Tribune goes so far as to suggest that one should "leave the skeptics ... behind".
Mark Mardell has a bit more positive take (in a sense that he sees it more as a pro-Europe speech), but by now it seems very clear that the Gordon Brown government is not very interested in European Affairs.
There are some more issues in the speech I want to return to, at some other point (the whole "hey ho, lets send troops to Darfur" part ) . But let me say that I have to wonder how he can call on Europe to do more about conflict prevention and at the same time reject further integration of the defense capabilities.
Mark Mardell has a bit more positive take (in a sense that he sees it more as a pro-Europe speech), but by now it seems very clear that the Gordon Brown government is not very interested in European Affairs.
There are some more issues in the speech I want to return to, at some other point (the whole "hey ho, lets send troops to Darfur" part ) . But let me say that I have to wonder how he can call on Europe to do more about conflict prevention and at the same time reject further integration of the defense capabilities.
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RZ, I agree that there seemed to be a gap between the professed aims and the allowed means in Miliband's speech.
A general comment: When a number of journalists, bloggers and citizens discuss the same issues, there is something of a European public space, after all.
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