All 3 results for cuckoo speaker:Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Informal European Council (31 Jan 2012)

Gisela Stuart: The Greek writer Aristophanes gave us the concept of cloud cuckoo land. I wonder whether some European leaders visited that mythical country on Monday. Will the Prime Minister tell us how on earth he thinks that a country such as Greece will regain competitiveness if it cannot devalue, which it cannot do within the euro?

European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2): Clause 1 — Interpretation of Part 1 (24 Jan 2011)

Gisela Stuart: ..., and its voting weight would therefore be larger than that of any other country. Anyone who argued that that Turkey's accession did not represent a significant change would be living in cloud cuckoo land.

Convention on the Future of Europe (20 Mar 2003)

Gisela Stuart: ...of national interest for that. One could not dream of running a common security defence policy on the basis of an initiative by the Commission based on qualified majority voting. That is cloud cuckoo land: can anyone imagine any member state sending its troops into battle on the basis of a qualified majority vote decision in Brussels? However, in some areas such as trade, Britain wants far...


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