Author: Frank Schnittger

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU should the Tories win an overall majority at the next election due in May.  Never mind that his pledge was mainly to...

I once wrote a diary on the The negotiation Process and even considered making it the topic of a putative Phd. research proposal before deciding that the gulf between academia and practice was too large to bridge: there simply...

Cross-posted from the European Tribune With the Syriza movement led by Alexis Tsipras likely to win next weeks elections in Greece, the possibility of Greece being expelled from the Eurozone, at German insistence, raises its...

Promoted by Steven D Having written a piece on American Exceptionalism I thought it might be appropriate to turn my attention to the EU, and to try to define what makes it a unique constellation of notionally independent states...

Promoted by Steven D, and thank you Frank for your help. Given Steven D’s impassioned pleas for content in Booman’s continued absence through illness I thought I’d break my vow of Omertà on all things USA...