We started in October 2004 trying to understand the draft constitutional treaty. Was it a sinister threat to a thousand years of British democracy? Or was it a sly takeover by the French and Germans? Nothing so dramatic: it was inevitably more complicated and generally worthy. How to get the advantages of scale (of a population of 460m) without creating a super-state with the resultant feared loss of national identities?

We find it engrossing. For the latest monthly newsletter and more information visit the EU Study Group website.

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