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Call me Uncle, Bulgaria
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Parliamentary elections take place in Bulgaria on Sunday and I will be present as an International Observer....
France in the balance
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The French love le bilan – the balance sheet – as a way of assessing a politician’s...
Towards a Social Europe
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Dear Friends Labour’s South West Region has selected its six candidates to fight the European Parliamentary elections in 2014....
Nominated as a Candidate
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I just wanted to express my delight and thanks at having been nominated as a Labour candidate...
Relaunching Europe
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At the end of January I was invited to speak on the panel for the latest Relaunching...
Your candidate for International Officer
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I’m an internationalist with a proven track record of promoting Social Democracy right across Europe. That’s why...
Welcome
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This is the website of Hadleigh Vaughan Roberts. I am a languages professional working as a manager...
French conservative party in total meltdown
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The battle between the two prospective leaders of the UMP has escalated to a full scale war....
Leadership changes in France
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Both main political parties in France have changed leaders this week. On the Left, it was a...
Changing the political clocks in Spain
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If you can’t move elections to suit events, you have to move events to suit elections. Such...
Spain and the Scotland Question
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The article below appeared in the Gibraltar daily newspaper Panorama on Friday 5 October. THE SCOTLAND QUESTION...
Labour needs to be more pro-European (Conference 2012)
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Here is the video and text of my speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on...
Extending non-Europeans the right to vote
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While the UK’s attention is torn between ‘Badger cull’ and ‘Man gets upset at police’, I came...
Second thoughts on the second round
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It is less than 24 hours since François Hollande won the presidential election and I can see...
François Hollande wins the Presidential Election
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Here are the official results for the French Presidential Elections of 2012. An extraordinary moment and I day I...
Sarkozy welcomes Le Pen into the Republic
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Both Hollande and Sarkozy have tried to lure over voters who contributed to the 18% Front National...
French Election Results: First Round
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Hollande leads with 28.63% Sarkozy comes out with 27.08% (slightly better than the estimations that had him...
Who will President Hollande’s Prime Minister be?
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It might seem presumptuous given that the first round of voting is tomorrow, and the second round...
Ex-President Chirac to vote for Next-President Hollande
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Former conservative president Jacques Chirac is to vote for Socialist candidate François Hollande on Sunday, rather than...
Analysing French Presidential official videos
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As soon as I’d finished looking at the presidential posters yesterday, the official campaign began. It was...
