Article and Editorial in The Times 7 June, 2012, p24

“As a student I travelled extensively around Europe, particularly to Greece, France, West and East Germany and Czechoslovakia. I loved the diversity and depth of the different cultures. I was enchanted by the way people identified with their village, town or city and, in most cases, their nation. All of this seemed to come together under the term “European”…

Read the text of Lord Owen’s full article here.

In the same edition, The Times published an editorial praising Lord Owen’s contribution.

“The euro crisis will force Britons to make a choice between being part of the fuller union of a federal government or a common trading bloc.

“Closer integration was meant to bind together the European family of nations. It has instead created discord and disharmony. It has also been an enduring source of division in British politics, within mainstream parties and across them. Writing in The Times today, Lord Owen, the former Foreign Secretary, proposes a way of resolving these conflicts while preserving the British people’s right to democratic self-government.”

Read the full editorial here.