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Home News News Spinning an Opinion News Spinning an Opinion 31 10 2010 15:36 webmaster 5 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds I asked Mr Van Rompuy . whether Mr Cameron had jumped the gun' in claiming 6 was dead and declaring that he had scored a great victory for Britain . Mr Van Rompuy made it perfectly clear that no decision' had been taken by the council and that the EU budget was not within its competence' . anyway By Paul Nuttall MEP So David Cameron caved in and agreed to a 2.9 increase in the EU budget . The European Parliament wanted 6 but Mr Cameron thought that he had negotiated this rise back down to just under 3 Bravo , it would seem . nbsp However , this was a bit different from the freeze , or even cut , that he was promising when writing in last Sunday's Mail . Of course when Cameron
Angela Merkel must have enjoyed the headlines this morning: “Merkel wins at Euro-poker” (FT Deutschland); “Merkel asserts her will in Brussels” (Die Welt); “Europe comes up against the Iron Chancellor” (Spiegel).
In the subsequent press conference, the Iron Chancellor pointed to her main achievement: “There is one important measure I want to underline: the surveillance of [...]
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS WAZ EUOBSERVER HEADLINE NEWS A quiet WEEK in the European Union ANDREW RETTMAN 30.10.2010 15:24 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Talks on next year's EU budget and fresh European Commission rules on nuclear waste stand out as the main events in a holiday week in . Brussels EU Parliament President Jerzy Buzek will meet with colleagues from the commission and member states on Thursday 4 November after butting heads with EU leaders on the subject at a summit last week . Detail from the painting Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch the Roman Catholic feast of All Saint's will see the EU parliament close for two days Photo : Hunter333 Print Comment article The EU institutions want a 6 percent hike for 2011, including an 85 percent hike in the
In a three days’ time, American voters will choose between the European model advocated by their present rulers and the constitutional principles adumbrated by their founders – principles, as I never tire of pointing out, inherited from Britain.
Before casting their ballots, voters might like to ponder where Europeanisation leads. I explore the question at length [...]
A couple of years ago, this blog revealed that the Shakespeare character whom David Cameron thought he most resembled was Henry V.
The news evidently hasn’t reached Nicolas Sarkozy since, we read, he presented the Prime Minister with tennis racquets. On one level, of course, it was a thoughtful gift: David Cameron played tennis for Brasenose. [...]
Budget freeze? What budget freeze? At best, today’s EU summit will confirm the hike demanded by the European Commission: the hike, that is, over and above the increase already built into the 2011 budget. To remind you, Britain’s share of the increase – not our share of the EU budget, our share of the increase [...]
What was our lowest moment during the financial crisis? I’d say it was being pitied by Zimbabweans because Gordon Brown’s economic mismanagement would lead to hyperinflation.
The cheap money crowd have been confounded by events: the new GDP figures refudiate the idea that we need further quantitative easing, as the excellent Allister Heath explains. This is [...]
Have you got any idea what your state pension will be? Neither have I. The system is extraordinarily opaque and complicated and, beyond uneasily sensing that the return will be dire, few of us are in a position to factor a government subsidy into our retirement plans.
Several studies suggest that certainty about the numbers is [...]
Douglas Carswell, the Westminster wing of the Direct Democracy Party, is obsessed with defence procurement; something of a bore on the subject, you might almost say. For years, he has been making speeches and posting regular blogs about the way in which contracts are negotiated in the interests of a handful of defence contractors and [...]
During a BBC radio interview earlier today, I was asked whether the spending cuts were “unfair”. I replied by borrowing this brilliant argument from Matt Sinclair at the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
If, by some sorcery, we could double the income of the poorest ten per cent of people in society without spending a penny of government cash, [...]
This is Robert’s latest International Trade newsletter
14 October 2010
Brussels 7 October 2010.
Conservative International Trade Spokesman in Europe, Robert Sturdy MEP, and Chairman of the Friends of Pakistan group, Sajjad Karim, today welcomed a European Commission announcement that it is seeking to temporarily suspend import duties on Pakistani goods entering the EU.
The European Commission is making this move in a bid [...]
Home News News AIFM directive burdens small companies and pension funds News AIFM directive burdens small companies and pension funds 04 10 2010 01:13 webmaster 162 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP The AIFM directive was in response to the financial crisis and its aim was to protect against systemic risk by bringing alternative funds under control . Instead we have a directive that will put burdens on small companies at the cost of . jobs It will reduce returns to all investors including institutional investors and pension . funds London is home to one of the the largest financial districts in the world and is a competitor with New York for the world's financial capital . Over one million people in the UK are employed by the financial services industry out of which the