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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!British Prime Minister David Cameron was the talk of the town Wednesday as he held his first face to face meeting with President Obama at the White House. But while foreign policy and the oil spill dominated the discussion between the two leaders in Washington, back in the U.K., Cameron was in the news for his domestic policy agenda. Shortly before leaving for Washington, the new prime minister unveiled a plan to dramatically redistribute power in Britain from the central government to local community organizations. In what is being billed as his most meaty policy speech since taking office ...
A few weeks back, I posted about some incipient trouble brewing within the EU. Late last week, European leaders met for a two-day summit to push forward on a number of those procedural and policy issues. Here are five noteworthy things to come out of that meeting: ...
It might seem curious that just three weeks after Ireland voted overwhelmingly to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, there's already fresh talk of the demise of the European Union. But despite eight years of painstaking work, some forces appear to be conspiring against the EU.European heads of state are slated to meet toward the end of this month to finalize the treaty, which makes a number of institutional changes to the EU charter following the inclusion of 10 new member states back in 2004. The problem is that in order for it to take effect, the treaty needs to be ratified by all 27 members. And not ...
The British Conservative party did something astounding at its national conference last week: It spoke to its members like grown-ups. American conservatives would do well to follow suit. I'm not the first person to suggest that Republicans would do well to steal a page from the Tory playbook. A long line of conservative pundits -- including The New York Times's David Brooks and The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes -- have been making this case for more than a year now. In particular, they see Conservative party leader David Cameron (pictured) as a pivotal figure in leading his party out of the ...
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