<P> Huhne is or was a member of the European Movement, Green Lib Dems, Association of Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists and the National Union of Journalists . </P> <P> Prior to his careers as a financial journalist, analyst and politician, Huhne wrote four books that are mainly on the themes of either Third - World debt and development, or European integration . His latest book is entitled Both Sides of the Coin (1999, with James Forder), in which he argues the case for British membership in the euro . His first was Debt and Danger (Penguin Special, 1985), an analysis of the 1984 Third World debt crisis co-written with Lord Lever of Manchester, the former Labour cabinet minister . </P> <P> He was a contributor to the Orange Book (2004), in which he advocates reforms to the United Nations and international governance . Huhne was critical of the most controversial article in the Orange Book, in which David Laws proposed an insurance - based National Health Service . He did not take part in the successor volume, Britain after Blair and has voiced dismay at the way its predecessor was presented as a break with the party's social liberal traditions . More recently, he contributed to the book The City in Europe and the World (2005) and two articles to Reinventing the State (2007) edited by Duncan Brack, Richard Grayson and David Howarth . These cover the case for localism in which Huhne argues that there is no contradiction between localism and equality, and the need for environmental policy to tackle climate change . </P> <P> Huhne has also written articles for Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman . </P>

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