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  • 06 Nov 2009 - - Daily Mail - Miliband may get Brussels job 'in days' as Blair's hopes fade The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" EU leaders are said to have been impressed by Mr Miliband's ferociously pro-European speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies a couple of weeks ago.
  • 01 Nov 2009 - - Mail on Sunday - Miliband emerges as frontrunner for key EU role as Sarkozy sinks Blair's chances of President j The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" EU leaders are said to have been impressed by Mr Miliband's pro-European speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies last week
  • 28 Oct 2009 - - Le Monde - Too Late... The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" Le plus gravement atteint est le jeune et brillant secrétaire au Foreign Office, David Miliband. Déjà, au congrès du Labour, le mois dernier, il avait dit toute sa foi dans l'Union européenne. Lundi 26 octobre, il est allé plus loin. Dans un discours important, il a relégué au deuxième plan ce qui était depuis toujours le pilier numéro un de la politique étrangère britannique : la relation privilégiée avec les Etats-Unis. M. Miliband, qui pourrait être appelé à diriger le Labour, lui substitue une autre pri
  • 28 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times - Power politics The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" But, whatever his secret musings, Miliband made an interesting and thoughtful speech on Britain and Europe a couple of days ago at the IISS in London. He argued that the world is heading for an "Age of Continents", in which sheer size will be increasingly important. The world will either be run by a G2 of China and the US, or by a G3 that includes the EU. The moral is that Britain has to throw its lot in with the EU, or face increas-ing irrelevance. As Miliband himself notes, the Tories' aversion to deeper
  • 27 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Mr Miliband makes a strong case The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" David Miliband yesterday delivered the kind of speech that is too seldom heard in British politics; a speech that made a strong and unambiguous case for a greater role for the European Union on the global stage. As the Foreign Secretary argued, it is in Britain's "national interest" to see the EU develop a strong foreign policy.
  • 27 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times- Miliband warns on choice for European president The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" In a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Mr Miliband said: "The choice for Europe is simple: get our act together and make the EU a leader on the world stage or become spectators in a G2 world shaped by the US and China." Mr Miliband said the EU's foreign policy was blighted by confused messages, patchy co-ordination and relationships with global powers that lacked "clarity, strategy or purpose". "It is very strongly in the British national interest for the EU to dev
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David Miliband - "Strong Britain in a Strong Europe"

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On Monday 26 October, The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 

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