US Election special opinion by Dick Roche, who as an Irish government minister ordered the recall of all electronic voting machines in Ireland. The machines were...
writes Dick Roche, former Irish Minister for European Affairs and for the Environment. In 1952 the European Coal and Steel Community came into operation. Two years...
EU Reporter broadcast live from the European Parliament in Brussels as the results of the European election came in on Sunday night. Former Irish Minister for...
The European Election is not yet quite over. By Monday night, one member state -Ireland- had so far only confirmed who one of its 14 MEPs...
In the 45 years since the 1st direct elections, the European Parliament has been transformed from an appointed multilingual talking shop to a directly elected assembly....
Parliamentary questions are regarded as a key element in the democratic control process, a quick and easy means of forcing political leaders and the agencies under...
In “Economy and Society” Max Weber wrote, “bureaucracy naturally welcomes a poorly informed and hence a powerless parliament--at least in so far as ignorance somehow agrees...
