There is no love lost between them, although they are of the same political party persuasion and have similar federalist views.
The Welsh debate's more practical focus, and in particular its attention to federalist or quasi-federalist options for Wales within the UK, ought to be followed much more attentively in England, where many of the same issues apply.
He is, however, a European federalist, one reason the Conservatives maintain he is unacceptable as commission president.
You can't be a federalist and want independence at the same time.
Juncker is a federalist nightmare who is completely arrogant and totally fixated on future union, he added.
Perhaps people will even be happy with a federalist system, who knows?" At the small Govan Cross shopping centre, where Barbour's statue may soon stand, James Mackay, a retired bank worker, is running errands for a disabled friend who, he said, had been "wrecked" by worries over the bedroom tax and welfare cuts.
"From Dublin to Lublin, from Portugal to Pomerania, the pitchfork-wielding populists are converging on the Breydel building in Brussels – drunk on local hooch and chanting nationalist slogans and preparing to give the federalist machinery a good old kicking with their authentically folkloric clogs," Boris Johnson wrote in the Telegraph on Monday.
"Is Juncker more federalist than the other names in the frame?
"That makes that a federalist turning point".
It may even embrace a federalist proposal.
"Who is more federalist than not?
