Daniel Hannan

The way ahead for Europe

Tony Blair is right: the European constitution is a defeat for federalism. It is instead a triumph for centralism. Daniel Hannan outlines the sort of treaty the EU needs if nations are to retain their independence

issue 26 June 2004

Join me in a little thought experiment. For several months now, Tony Blair has been insisting that the European constitution would be a defeat for Euro-federalism. Within hours of appending his name to it, he announced that, far from creating a superstate, the constitution was about ‘sovereign nation-states co-operating together’.

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