• The rats are gnawing at David Cameron's veto

    Updated: 2011-12-30 17:45:13
    The whole country (this blog included) cheered when David Cameron denied Merkozy their proposed change to the EU Treaties. The Prime Minister's poll ratings are better than at any time since the election, and 70 per cent of Conservative party activists regard his veto as the greatest act of his premiership. Yet those cheering the [...]

  • [Ticker] Hungary passes controversial bank law

    Updated: 2011-12-30 14:59:15
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  • [Ticker] Four Polish MEPs abandon Tory-led group

    Updated: 2011-12-30 14:58:56
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  • [Ticker] Tymoshenko disappears into prison system

    Updated: 2011-12-30 14:52:07
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  • Denmark to battle for European unity

    Updated: 2011-12-30 08:36:34
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  • Monti calls for boost to eurozone bail-out firepower

    Updated: 2011-12-30 08:24:09
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  • [Opinion] Israel needs outside 'interference'

    Updated: 2011-12-30 00:53:08
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  • New Year`s Message

    Updated: 2011-12-29 17:33:15
    Home News News New Year`s Message News New Year`s Message 29 12 2011 17:33 webmaster 41 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Nigel Farage MEP 2012 will be the year of reckoning for the European Project . It is extremely unlikely that the Euro can be held together in its current form , and that that will be the most positive scenario . The worst case scenario will be that the markets overwhelm the whole thing leading to wholesale natonalisation of the banks . Either way Eurosceptic opinions and anti EU voting will continue to grow , not just in Britain bit across the whole European . Union The EU project is a failure For UKIP 2011 saw us clearly establish ourselves as the 4th party in domestic politics . Highlights for us included Stuart Wheeler becoming our Treasurer , lending us great

  • Should Britain and the United States merge?

    Updated: 2011-12-29 15:33:52
    In George Bernard Shaw's 1928 play, The Apple Cart, the American ambassador blurts out some momentous news to Britain's King: The prodigal, sir, has returned to his father's house. Not poor, not hungry, not ragged, as of old. Oh no. This time he returns bringing with him the riches of the earth to the ancestral [...]

  • [Ticker] Hungarian journalists sacked for criticising government

    Updated: 2011-12-29 08:15:00
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  • France to hold jobs summit as unemployment hits 12-year high

    Updated: 2011-12-29 08:09:07
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  • [Ticker] Cyprus discovers gas at first search

    Updated: 2011-12-29 08:08:17
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  • Bosnia forms government in hope of EU candidate status

    Updated: 2011-12-29 08:00:04
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  • [Ticker] Moscow reaches Southstream agreement with Ankara

    Updated: 2011-12-29 07:58:08
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  • [Ticker] An independent Scotland would have 7 votes in the EU Council

    Updated: 2011-12-29 07:57:33
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  • However much the government spends, it will still be attacked for 'the cuts'

    Updated: 2011-12-28 16:03:07
    Is there any level of spending that wouldn't trigger 'Tory cuts' headlines? The Guardian's front-page headline this morning was 'NHS cuts have affected patient care say four out of five doctors'. So just how severe are these 'cuts'? Ten per cent of the budget? Five? Here are the official figures from the Department of Health. [...]

  • Winners and losers in British politics 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-28 09:02:37
    A good year for: 1. Alex Salmond. The Times has crowned him, and it’s hard to disagree. The bailout of the Bank of Scotland and RBS restored support for the United Kingdom north of the Border, but the First Minister ensured that the SNP was not damaged by loss of enthusiasm for its chief policy, and [...]

  • [Ticker] Putin dismisses talk of an election re-run

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:47:43
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  • [Ticker] France to hold jobs summit

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:41:29
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  • Ireland plans referendum body on possible EU treaty poll

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:33:29
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  • Greek elections pushed back to April

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:32:53
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  • [Ticker] Israel FM angry over EU memo on domestic Arab community

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:30:35
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  • [Ticker] Italy fines Apple over extended warranty scam

    Updated: 2011-12-28 07:29:33
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  • Poor people! Stop paying taxes!

    Updated: 2011-12-27 13:04:33
    Who gains from a system where we pay tax, then get some of the money back in benefits, and then pay tax on the benefits? The answer, obviously, is the bureaucracy responsible for its administration. Everyone else is worse off. Work is disincentivised, time that might have been spent productively is taken up with form-filling, [...]

  • Christmas had been getting longer – until now

    Updated: 2011-12-26 16:54:43
    The comment editor of a US newspaper called just now, chasing a review that's due next week. His office was operating at full strength: there's no question of taking Boxing Day off where he works, let alone extra days if Christmas happens to fall at a weekend. This practice of treating the period between Christmas [...]

  • No longer at ease here, in the old dispensation

    Updated: 2011-12-25 07:40:38
    Wise men, indeed. Merry Christmas to all my readers. (Hat-tip, Roger Helmer for the image.)

  • The BBC has difficulty admitting the degree of public hostility to the EU

    Updated: 2011-12-24 18:24:56
    According to the BBC, three of the four most watched politicians on YouTube in 2011 were me, Nigel Farage and Margaret Thatcher. It was rather sweet of the Beeb to run the story at all. Still, it seems odd that they managed to report it at such length without considering what the three of us [...]

  • Happy Holidays!

    Updated: 2011-12-24 09:29:23
    Dear friends, I wish you happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!

  • Armenians suffered terribly in 1915, but France is wrong to insist on labels

    Updated: 2011-12-23 20:36:17
    In any spat between Turkey and France, we surely know whom to back. Ankara has recalled its ambassador following the passage of a French law which makes it a criminal offence to deny that the massacres of Armenians in 1915 constituted a genocide. They were tangled and tragic events, and historians have wrangled ever since [...]

  • Arab Spring villains bombard EU with lawsuits

    Updated: 2011-12-23 16:15:38
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  • [Ticker] French minister tries to mend ties with Britain

    Updated: 2011-12-23 07:57:55
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  • [Ticker] Moody's downgrades Slovenian debt

    Updated: 2011-12-23 07:55:38
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  • [Ticker] Surge in Greek and Spanish workers moving to Germany

    Updated: 2011-12-23 07:53:36
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  • [Ticker] Over 6,200 people killed in Syrian crackdown

    Updated: 2011-12-23 07:50:05
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  • [Ticker] Serbia allows Kosovo citizens to move freely

    Updated: 2011-12-23 07:48:09
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  • EU slams Hungary for power-grab on central bank

    Updated: 2011-12-22 21:16:12
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  • The ECB blew away €500 billion, and the markets still fell

    Updated: 2011-12-22 19:52:24
    I'm not sure people have grasped the magnitude of what has just happened. The European Central Bank firehosed €489,190,000,000 at the eurozone banking system. Five-hundred-and-twenty-three banks snatched greedily at the cheap cash. And the markets fell. This blog has been railing for three years against the EU's bailout-and-borrow mania. I am, I realise, in danger of becoming [...]

  • Consequences of Britain’s summit veto

    Updated: 2011-12-22 15:23:09
    It’s too early to gauge the real impact of David Cameron’s veto at the European Council in the early hours of December 9 and the decision of 26 countries to devise a new treaty, but there have been straws in the wind over recent days which indicate how positions are evolving and which will set [...]

  • Grayling takes Big Picture of the Danish Presidency

    Updated: 2011-12-22 00:52:42
    The latest BigPictureBrussels from Grayling looks at the political priorities of the Danish Presidency of the EU and the likely impact Denmark will make during its 6 month term. Denmark takes on the Presidency of the European Union at a time of crisis and uncertainty. Only days after the highly-charged and bad-tempered Summit in Brussels, [...]

  • Tory MEP calls Icelandic Fisheries Minister 'Stalinist' for not wanting to join EU

    Updated: 2011-12-21 16:11:51
    Home News News Tory MEP calls Icelandic Fisheries Minister Stalinist' for not wanting to join EU News Tory MEP calls Icelandic Fisheries Minister Stalinist' for not wanting to join EU 21 12 2011 16:11 webmaster 94 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Senior Tory MEP Robert Atkins described the Icelandic Fisheries Minister as Stalinist for not wanting his country to join the EU . Atkins recently returned from a taxpayer funded EU delegation to Iceland . The Icelandic Fisheries Minister expressed his concerns about what EU membership would mean for Iceland's fishing stocks and fishing industry . Robert Atkins told the European parliament's Foreign Affairs committee that he would compare this minister , Jón Bjarnason , to Stalinists' , a remark that was immediately challenged by UKIP MEP William

  • Paul Nuttall: UK immigration concerns are justified

    Updated: 2011-12-20 17:14:36
    : Home News News Paul Nuttall : UK immigration concerns are justified News Paul Nuttall : UK immigration concerns are justified 20 12 2011 17:14 webmaster 78 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Britain still considers the levels of inward migration to be of massive concern reveals new data released by the German Marshall Fund in their Transatlantic : Trends Immigration survey for 2011 The headline figures show that in the UK 57 people think that there are too many immigrants 68 regard immigration as more of a problem than an opportunity and 71 concentrate their concerns on illegal rather than legal . immigration While the UK maintains its traditional sympathy to those driven from their home by natural disasters , persecution and war , we are very concerned at the sheer scale of inward migration

  • Robert Sturdy in Geneva for World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference

    Updated: 2011-12-17 15:44:38
    Geneva, Saturday 17th December 2011 – Fears that over the stalled Doha Development Round negotiations, which have dominated the multilateral environment for the last 10 years, were pushed aside this week, as the WTO held its 8th Ministerial in Geneva. Despite the lack of progress with a Doha agreement, the WTO managed to see the conclusion [...]

  • Jonathan Wilkinson retires

    Updated: 2011-12-16 15:47:00
    On 12 December Jonny Wilkinson announced that he is retiring from international test rugby. “Jonny Who?” non-rugby fans may ask. “And why is there sporting news on a blog dedicated to the world of EU affairs?” ask other readers. So, who is Jonny Wilkinson? Jonny Wilkinson is a legend of world rugby, respected and admired [...]

  • EP News Article: It is not only tariffs that hamper free trade

    Updated: 2011-12-16 15:42:37
    Removing obstacles to trade between nations is not only important for exporters who can thus better penetrate foreign markets and make more money, but also for consumers who can enjoy a wider choice at better prices. Trade liberalisation in the last couple of decades has pushed tariffs down across the world, but other barriers to [...]

  • A defeat for EU-assisted colonialism in Africa

    Updated: 2011-12-14 20:19:39
    Home News News A defeat for EU-assisted colonialism in Africa News A defeat for EU-assisted colonialism in Africa 14 12 2011 20:19 webmaster 147 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds RELATED VIDEO Today in the European Parliament in Strasbourg , UKIP helped win a vote to defeat a European Commission legislative proposal to continue a fisheries deal with Morocco that is harmful to the interests of the people of occupied Western . Sahara Speaking after the vote , Stuart Agnew UKIP MEP from England Eastern Region : said This is a wonderful defeat for EU-assisted colonialism in Africa . This legislation was harmful to the interests of the people of occupied Western Sahara and clearly breached their rights , as well as established international . law UKIP were happy to vote down this proposal and send the

  • Sturdy report urges Commission to remove barriers to trade

    Updated: 2011-12-13 15:32:06
    Strasbourg, 13th December, 2011 – A report authored by Robert Sturdy, vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, was overwhelming adopted by the European Parliament in a vote earlier today. Mr Sturdy’s report sets out proposals that would help remove or reduce unjustified non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and regulatory obstacles to trade, such as export subsidies, anti-dumping, [...]

  • Farage: Britain is going to make the Great Escape

    Updated: 2011-12-13 14:25:16
    : Home News News Farage : Britain is going to make the Great Escape News Farage : Britain is going to make the Great Escape 13 12 2011 14:25 webmaster 432 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Speaking today at the Strasbourg plenary to debate the outcome of the EU summit 8-9 Dec . UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said that something had changed since the summit : Mr Cameron may not know it but we are now on course Britain is going to make the Great Escape . We are going to get out of this Union . We are going to be the first European country to get our freedom back . I suspect many others will follow and then what we'll have is our democracy back , our liberty back , and we'll have influence in the world as you lot head for disaster . It is going to happen , quot Mr Farage . concluded I often ask

  • Farage: Cameron`s veto will incur the wrath of Sarkozy

    Updated: 2011-12-12 00:05:46
    : Home News News Farage : Cameron`s veto will incur the wrath of Sarkozy News Farage : Cameron`s veto will incur the wrath of Sarkozy 12 12 2011 12:05 webmaster 340 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Cameron's veto will incur the wrath of Sarkozy . Financial services will suffer . And only more pain awaits if we stay in the EU , UKIP leader Nigel Farage . writes By Nigel Farage Londonlovesbusiness.com For some years I have felt like the most unpopular Englishman inside the EU institutions . Now I have competition . David Cameron cut a very lonely figure in the grim Justus Sipsius building in Brussels . He vetoed a new EU Treaty that was designed to save the Euro and will try to present himself as a strong leader in the . UK His objection to the Treaty had nothing to do with the Eurozone itself or

  • Little choice for Cameron in Europe à la carte

    Updated: 2011-12-09 18:12:59
    This week’s summit in Brussels has certainly been a defining moment in the history of the European Union. The UK’s decision to block any revision to the existing EU treaties as part of the package to save the euro is confirmation that we live in a Europe à la carte. Whether it proves to be a [...]

  • What’s Behind the New Eurozone Fiscal Stability Union?

    Updated: 2011-12-09 09:04:01
    This European Council meeting was quite tumultuous, it appears. But we do have an outcome – a “fiscal stability union”. Below I present a preliminary critical assessment of the proposal, as well as a comment on the toxic role of … Continue reading →

  • Real EU debate is just beginning - Nigel Farage

    Updated: 2011-12-09 00:54:24
    Home News News Real EU debate is just beginning Nigel Farage News Real EU debate is just beginning Nigel Farage 09 12 2011 12:54 webmaster 404 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds RELATED VIDEO Following David Cameron's use of a veto today at the European Council , UKIP Leader Nigel Farage at the Justus Lupsius building in Brussels this morning said the real debate on the EU was just . beginning It is tempting to say well done David Cameron for standing up for British interests , but then we realise that he has actually gained nothing , quot he . said His attempt to safeguard Britain's biggest industry has led to Mr Sarkozy telling him where to . go The argument that we can repatriate powers from the EU died last night . We cannot have an á la carte menu in future with Europe . They have made it

  • Cameron waving the white flag furiously - Farage

    Updated: 2011-12-07 11:46:08
    Home News News Cameron waving the white flag furiously Farage News Cameron waving the white flag furiously Farage 07 12 2011 11:46 webmaster 285 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds In response to David Cameron's call for safeguards for the City in return for supporting EU Treaty change UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said : today Retreat , retreat , just ten yards at a time is effectively David Cameron's call . David Cameron's European position started off with a Cast-Iron Guarantee' to hold a referendum , then moved to repatriating powers , and now down to some obscure concept of safeguarding the City which is . undefined Cameron's empty posturing is getting ridiculous . He is the man who called for EU budget cuts but was happy to settle for an . increase By his actions we must judge him . And his

  • Stuart Agnew hits out at ineffectual proposals for egg screening

    Updated: 2011-12-06 17:30:38
    Home News News Stuart Agnew hits out at ineffectual proposals for egg screening News Stuart Agnew hits out at ineffectual proposals for egg screening 06 12 2011 17:30 webmaster 74 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds East of England UKIP MEP , Stuart Agnew has accused Agriculture Minister Jim Paice of fiddling while Rome burns' in a response to the Government's proposals for screening of imported eggs after the EU's battery cage ban comes into force on 1st January 2012. Mr Agnew , who farms in Norfolk said : nbsp Mr Paice is going to have to do a lot more than tinker with this issue . nbsp Clever sound bites are not enough . nbsp Imported shell eggs are a relatively small part of the problem and UV scanning of them will only trap the unwary . Unfortunately , it will do absolutely nothing to protect

  • Robert Sturdy praises DEFRA announcement on battery cages

    Updated: 2011-12-06 13:47:13
    Brussels, 6th December, 2011 – Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England and member of the European Parliaments Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, has praised today’s announcement by Agricultural Minister Jim Paice that will prevent eggs from ‘battery cages’ being sold in the UK. The announcement from DEFRA was in response to the upcoming [...]

  • Bloom: Those responsible for euro shambles should be sent to prison

    Updated: 2011-12-06 11:59:36
    : Home News News Bloom : Those responsible for euro shambles should be sent to prison News Bloom : Those responsible for euro shambles should be sent to prison 06 12 2011 11:59 webmaster 347 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO I've never known in the history of the world that politics beat economics , quot UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom told RT yesterday following agreement between Merkel and Sarkozy over EU treaty changes to save the euro . Water doesn't flow uphill , that's the long and short of it . Forget my politics , it doesn't really matter . The long and short of it is : this project is doomed to failure , it was always doomed to failure , and moreover I would have the people responsible . arraigned at a fiscal crimes tribunal . I would like to see some of these people sent to prison , quot

  • What do Michael O’Leary, Dr Margaret Chan, Vivienne Westwood, Andrew Witty, and Eric Schmidt have in common?

    Updated: 2011-12-06 10:23:12
    Let me start with telling you who they are. Perhaps that will help. Michael O’Leary is the Chief Executive of Ryanair we love to hate. Vivienne Westwood is a leading fashion designer; you know the one with the shocking red hair. Dr Chan is the formidable Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Andrew Witty is the omnipresent [...]

  • EU treaty change for a permanent Debt Union

    Updated: 2011-12-05 19:59:44
    Home News News EU treaty change for a permanent Debt Union News EU treaty change for a permanent Debt Union 05 12 2011 19:59 webmaster 261 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Following talks in Paris today , German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a course of action they believe could save the . euro In a joint press release the two leaders said that EU treaty changes will include automatic sanctions against eurozone members that exceed the budget deficit threshold of 3 of GNP . nbsp Bailing out countries by means of eurobonds has been ruled out due to lack of funds , it was said . Instead , Merkel and Sarkozy agreed to activate the European Stability Mechanism ESM to replace the current bailout facility the 440-billion-euro European Financial Stabilisation

  • European Arrest Warrant: Whitewash Won`t Wash!

    Updated: 2011-12-05 10:56:13
    : Home News News European Arrest Warrant : Whitewash Won`t Wash News European Arrest Warrant : Whitewash Won`t Wash 05 12 2011 10:56 webmaster 236 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Response to the Scott-Baker Review Panel Report on the European Arrest Warrant by UKIP MEP Gerard Batten : Introduction In better ages of its legal history than the one we are living through , Britain developed a uniquely fair system of criminal justice . Our achievements on this field have excelled those of Ancient Rome and remain unparalleled in the history of civilisation . Throughout the world , our common law system became an ideal which other nations strove to . copy Yet , the very excellence of British justice produced some new dilemmas such as the extradition of suspects to other countries . We do not want to

  • Robert Sturdy to host trade conference in March 2012 – regional businesses register free today!

    Updated: 2011-12-05 10:26:46
    Conference: ‘Going Global: Helping Small Businesses Trade Abroad’ Venue: Robinson College, University of Cambridge on the 2nd of March 2012. On the 2nd of March 2012, in the prestigious surroundings of one of the world’s greatest and oldest universities, Robert Sturdy MEP, Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, will be hosting a trade conference [...]

  • EU spending under control, say Tories, as UK gives extra £307 million for 2012

    Updated: 2011-12-04 22:25:30
    , , Home News News EU spending under control , say Tories , as UK gives extra 307 million for 2012 News EU spending under control , say Tories , as UK gives extra 307 million for 2012 04 12 2011 22:25 webmaster 188 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO By Marta Andreasen Yesterday 01.12.2011 in the Brussels chamber I poured scorn on Conservative claims that they had EU spending under control . MEPs formally voted for a 2 increase in the EU's budget for 2012. The rise an estimated 2 billion pounds in total will cost British taxpayers around 307 million for its contribution to the pot . The European Parliament and the Commission's demand for a 5 increase for the 2012 budget was ridiculous but the acceptance of a real 2 rise is a slap in the face to taxpayers In a doomed pursuit of its Lisbon

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