• [Feature] New research claims Europe can close US clouding computing gap

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:38:29
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  • EU investment bank enriched the Mubaraks, report says

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:42
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  • [Ticker] Derivatives deal stuck on EU mediation powers

    Updated: 2012-01-31 14:20:49
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  • [Ticker] Youth unemployment exceeds 30 percent in eight member states

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:01:43
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  • [Ticker] S

    Updated: 2012-01-31 09:29:27
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  • Dutch minister: Border cameras do not break EU law

    Updated: 2012-01-31 09:16:54
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  • Greece seeks bail-out deal 'this week' to avert catastrophe

    Updated: 2012-01-31 08:31:39
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  • [Ticker] Cameron keen to see French banks relocate to UK

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:43:43
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  • Cameron shows true colours in Brussels

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:35:10
    Home News News Cameron shows true colours in Brussels News Cameron shows true colours in Brussels 31 01 2012 12:35 webmaster 56 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP Monday , 30th January 2012 should be remembered as the day that David Cameron showed the British people his true colours Last month he was painted as the returning hero from Brussels when he supposedly used his veto over a new treaty . nbsp There was no treaty text so technically a veto could not be . used He also made it clear he would not allow EU institutions to be used to co-ordinate and administer any new . pact How much can change in a few . weeks His actions are no more than another example of eurosceptic . posturing It is now clear that the Government has committed a U-turn on December's stance , with David Cameron now happy

  • Merkel downplays budget tsar idea

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:15:00
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  • Czechs abandon EU fiscal pact, for now

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:13:59
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  • EU pushes Arab plan for regime change in Syria

    Updated: 2012-01-30 23:57:24
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  • [Ticker] Czech Republic stays out of new fiscal treaty

    Updated: 2012-01-30 20:47:52
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  • [Ticker] Sweden abstains from non-binding conclusions on jobs and growth

    Updated: 2012-01-30 20:00:07
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  • [Ticker] Poland agrees deal on summit participation

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:54:14
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  • [Ticker] Poland stays tough on EU treaty

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:25:40
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  • [Ticker] Former Romanian PM sentenced for corruption

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:24:15
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  • [Ticker] EU leaders agree on permanent eurozone fund

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:21:57
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  • Propaganda Funded By Extortion

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:58:47
    Home News News Propaganda Funded By Extortion News Propaganda Funded By Extortion 30 01 2012 17:58 webmaster 15 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP It can be hard trying to convince certain Welsh people about why leaving the EU would be so beneficial for Wales . So often they will call up the millions given to Wales through Cohesion Policy and suggest Brussels has really helped impoverished Welsh communities develop in the wake of huge industrial . closures I try to explain that even so , we'd be better off if we handled our regional funding ourselves , but there must be something mesmeric about the swathe of blue plaques dotted on a handful of new buildings , positioned in some of Wales' most idyllic locations and prominently displayed on hoardings for events and occasions that

  • [Ticker] New treaty likened to 'gothic' architecture

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:38:39
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  • EU leaders differ on special budget tsar for Greece

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:15:25
    Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations EUbookshop.com EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence Angela Merkel wants successful discussions on Greece Photo : consilium.europa.eu EU leaders differ on special budget tsar for Greece 30.01.12 16:15 Related Greece vexed by German demand for budget commissioner' Brussels

  • [Video] Snow and strike on summit day

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:13:34
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  • The veto has been dropped; the only option now is an In/Out referendum

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:35:05
    So now we know: no repatriation, no renegotiation, business as usual. December's 'veto' turns out to be nothing of the kind; at best, it is a partial opt-out. Britain had asked for concessions in return for allowing the other member states to use EU institutions and structures for their fiscal compact. No such concessions were [...]

  • [Ticker] Austria against special commissioner for Greece

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:24:34
    Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations EUbookshop.com EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Austria against special commissioner for Greece 30.01.12 15:24 By EUOBSERVER Greece has to stick to its commitments but we don't think it's a good idea to send a special commissioner just for Greece .

  • [Ticker] Merkel doesn't want 'controversial' discussion on Greece

    Updated: 2012-01-30 13:39:10
    Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations EUbookshop.com EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Merkel doesn't want controversial' discussion on Greece 30.01.12 14:39 By EUOBSERVER I think we have to have a discussion on how to help Greece , not a controversy , but something that is successful

  • [Ticker] Swedish PM understands German 'frustration' over Greece

    Updated: 2012-01-30 13:37:30
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  • [Ticker] Latest treaty draft makes concession to Denmark

    Updated: 2012-01-30 11:09:39
    Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations EUbookshop.com EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Latest treaty draft makes concession to Denmark 30.01.12 12:09 By Valentina Pop The latest fiscal treaty draft has taken into account Danish complaints about fines applied for deficit sinners being

  • [Ticker] Irish minister says euro-exit possible if treaty rejected

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:47:59
    Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations EUbookshop.com EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Irish minister says euro-exit possible if treaty rejected 30.01.12 11:47 By EUOBSERVER It would be almost impossible for Ireland to remain in the eurozone if voters rejected a proposed new fiscal

  • The EU Fiscal Stability Treaty: Summary and Analysis

    Updated: 2012-01-28 08:57:49
    The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union is expected to be discussed at the European Council meeting on 30 January 2012. I will use the last leaked draft to present a short summary of … Continue reading →

  • A Recipe for Oppression, Poverty and War

    Updated: 2012-01-28 03:03:27
    , Home News News A Recipe for Oppression , Poverty and War News A Recipe for Oppression , Poverty and War 28 01 2012 03:03 webmaster 105 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Daniel de Garcia interviews UKIP Leader Nigel Farage for the Washington Times : DDG Many Americans are closely watching Europe and the ongoing debt crisis . Do you believe the situation is under control or are there more surprises to come : Farage The European Union not Europe , actually is collapsing under the weight of its own over-regulation , enormous subsidies to its supporters and attempts to rule the world through soft power i.e . money as well as the implications of its absurd currency-and-customs union . Most of this is not on the balance sheet , for credit-rating purposes , but it is there , in the real world , where

  • The solution to the euro crisis? A European credit rating agency!

    Updated: 2012-01-27 13:48:27
    How do you suppose MEPs plan to get out of Europe's economic mess? By acknowledging that the single currency was a rotten idea to begin with? By allowing stricken economies to default, decouple and devalue? Nope. They plan to regulate, or even censor, American credit rating agencies; and, at the same time, to create a European [...]

  • How the EU are planning their revenge on that `veto`

    Updated: 2012-01-27 13:36:05
    Home News News How the EU are planning their revenge on that veto` News How the EU are planning their revenge on that veto` 27 01 2012 13:36 webmaster 10 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Brussels taking revenge on David Cameron's worthless veto By Stuart Agnew Despite the triumphant homecoming following December's EU summit , the British prime minister's veto has only succeeded in ensuring that MEPS and officials plot against the UK claims UK Independence Party MEP The latest buzz word in the European Parliament , when the subject of the euro crisis comes up is solidarity With the usual complacency , the architects of the euro disaster now feel that solidarity will save their beloved single currency . What they actually mean is that everyone else will have to cough up to repair the damage ,

  • Set the taxpayer free, and watch the economy grow

    Updated: 2012-01-27 00:53:27
    , Home News News Set the taxpayer free , and watch the economy grow News Set the taxpayer free , and watch the economy grow 27 01 2012 12:53 webmaster 8 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Nigel Farage Daily Mail Nick Clegg appears to be demanding that the Government moves much faster in its stated desire to bring in a tax free allowance of 10,000 per annum . I have never understood and nobody has ever explained to me effectively how the Treasury can justify taxing somebody who is on the minimum . wage It stands to reason that if one accepts the concept of a minimum wage then its justification must be to set it at the level that an individual over 21 needs to earn 6.08 per hour in order to live a half decent life . That is 12,646 per year on a 40 hour week . Not a great deal of money , and an

  • Human Rights Court under fire

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:35:45
    For many British politicians and for much of the UK press, the European Court of Human Rights is the very embodiment of foreign meddling in British life. Two particular findings of the Court have stirred passions in Britain: a 2005 ruling that anyone in prison should be allowed to vote in elections (not currently permitted [...]

  • Cameron’s Davos agenda of competitiveness and opening trade is real answer to EU’s crisis

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:46:44
    Brussels, Thursday 26th January – David Cameron’s agenda for growth – set out in his Davos speech today – is the only long-term answer to the EU’s competitive crisis, which is just as serious and pressing as the Sovereign Debt crisis, the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, said today. In his [...]

  • Good Whigs should support the Union

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:35:52
    Finding myself in Whitehall with twenty minutes to spare this afternoon, I ducked into the Banqueting House, spread my coat on the floor and lay on it, staring at the ceiling. All this talk of sundering my country has affected me, and I wanted to cheer myself up by looking at Rubens' massive canvas celebrating [...]

  • Robert Sturdy hosts Seminar on Invasive Alien Species

    Updated: 2012-01-25 11:23:30
    Brussels, 25th January 2012 – This Tuesday, Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England and member of the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, welcomed guests from European Anglers Alliance, European Squirrel Initiative, COPA-COGECA, European Landowners Organisation, the Australian Representative to the EU, the RSPB and many more, to the European Parliament to [...]

  • Lunatic in charge of EU asylum

    Updated: 2012-01-24 17:19:32
    Home News News Lunatic in charge of EU asylum News Lunatic in charge of EU asylum 24 01 2012 17:19 webmaster 19 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The news that disgraced former European Commission President , Jacques Santer has been appointed as boss of the EU's bailout fund , improbably named the Special Purpose Investment Vehicle Spiv is almost laughable , 039 said Nigel Farage MEP , the UKIP . leader The lunatics have finally taken over the asylum , quot he . said The key to dealing with this crisis , as with any crisis in the markets is confidence . What sort of confidence can anybody have in somebody who was even the EU fired for incompetence . quot The plain fact is that the name Santer is synonymous in the public mind with financial corruption . It is quite incredible that someone of his

  • Referendum swindle flushes Croatia down the EU

    Updated: 2012-01-24 15:12:32
    Home News News Referendum swindle flushes Croatia down the EU News Referendum swindle flushes Croatia down the EU 24 01 2012 15:12 webmaster 141 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP And so it would appear Croatia will be the 28th member of the European Union , given that the bloc ratifies its application , which I think we can assume is a . given News reports told of an outright majority but is this really the case Well , as is often true of referenda , especially those associated with EU membership such as in the case of Ireland back in 2005 and of course in 2009 when the referendum was famously re-held in order to garner the right outcome , there is always another side to the . story It was reported that while 33 of those voting chose NOT to join the EU , double the amount , 66

  • Just imagine if the Iron Lady had got the big call wrong

    Updated: 2012-01-24 10:34:20
    I sense that the share price of Margaret Thatcher anecdotes is peaking, so I’m offloading some stock. Ten years ago, the great woman came to lunch with a group of Telegraph writers. Determined not to ask a sententious question about public policy, I instead blurted out: ‘Is there anything worth watching on television at the [...]

  • Who'd want to join the EU at a time like this?

    Updated: 2012-01-23 14:58:21
    Croatians, apparently. Two thirds of them, at any rate, on a turnout of 42 per cent, which pretty much wraps things up. I'm not sure I'd have accepted the terms offered – among other things, Croatia is obliged to join the euro – but it wasn't up to me. That, in a sense, is the whole [...]

  • We're being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF

    Updated: 2012-01-21 22:24:27
    First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it's the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons, [...]

  • The EU unintentionally bolsters Hungarian authoritarianism

    Updated: 2012-01-18 19:41:46
    Eurocrats are pulling off a remarkable feat: they are making the Hungarian government more popular. I have blogged before about the autocratic proclivities of the Fidesz regime. Viktor Orbán, a free-market reformer during his 1998-2002 premiership, has recently become almost Poujadiste in his rhetoric. But the frenzied tone in which he is being attacked has [...]

  • The Rise and Rise of Ethno PR in Europe

    Updated: 2012-01-18 08:55:04
    By Juergen H. Gangoly, Managing Partner of The Skills Group - Fleishman-Hillard’s affiliate in Austria Nowadays, it seems as though everyone in Europe is talking about the financial crisis and what it means to them. And, for most of us, the outlook is daunting: jobs are harder to come by, innovation is flailing ― and businesses [...]

  • Schulz presidency `an agreed stitch up` - Farage

    Updated: 2012-01-16 15:08:45
    Home News News Schulz presidency an agreed stitch up` Farage News Schulz presidency an agreed stitch up` Farage 16 01 2012 15:08 webmaster 65 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The MEP who is expected to be voted into the European parliament's top job on Tuesday has been accused of demeaning the institution by already forming his private . office Schulz started forming his cabinet six months ago . This shows the whole parliament election as the farce it is . It's a done deal , an agreed stitch-up already . Only parliament or a third world country would have someone of Schulz's temperament or calibre as president UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP By Martin Banks The Parliament German Socialist member Martin Schulz has been roundly condemned after it emerged he had already started forming his cabinet

  • Update: Going Global Trade Conference, Friday 2nd March 2012 – Registration Open Now – Register Free Today!

    Updated: 2012-01-16 14:10:45
    Going Global Trade Conference 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 aimed at bringing together British SMEs and national and European experts, advisers and officials, to [...]

  • Paul Nuttall: EU rules to blame for faulty implants

    Updated: 2012-01-13 15:36:18
    : Home News News Paul Nuttall : EU rules to blame for faulty implants News Paul Nuttall : EU rules to blame for faulty implants 13 01 2012 15:36 webmaster 22 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Having a single set of health standards across 27 legal systems , 22 different languages and a morass of different cultures will never be achieved , argues UKIP MEP Paul . Nuttall By Paul Nuttall MEP Public Service Europe The political class has swung into action . The National Health Service , in Britain , will be replacing all the faulty PIP breast implants that they supplied and David Cameron has called on the private cosmetic surgery sector to do the same , claiming that they have a moral duty to do so . Of course , the private sector is an easy target for Cameron and this runs straight into a growing

  • Dartmouth: Cameron must stop supporting Turkey`s EU membership

    Updated: 2012-01-13 14:29:18
    : Home News News Dartmouth : Cameron must stop supporting Turkey`s EU membership News Dartmouth : Cameron must stop supporting Turkey`s EU membership 13 01 2012 14:29 webmaster 155 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds If Turkey was today a member of the European Union the Duchess would be subject to the European Arrest Warrant , in which case there would be no legal process of extradition and the Duchess would be carted off to a Turkish jail there to languish possibly for 2 years or more before trial . William Dartmouth , UKIP MEP South West Responding to Turkish threats to jail the Duchess of York over a secret film on children abandoned in a Turkish orphanage , UKIP MEP William Dartmouth said today : The Duchess of York has done trojan work exposing the inhuman conditions of Turkish orphanages for

  • Wind power CO2 warning

    Updated: 2012-01-12 15:41:50
    Home News News Wind power CO2 warning News Wind power CO2 warning 12 01 2012 15:41 webmaster 31 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds A warning that wind power could actually produce more CO2 than gas while increasing domestic fuel bills has been highlighted by UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall A study in the Netherlands has found that turning back-up gas power stations on and off to cover spells when there is little wind actually produces more carbon than a steady supply of energy from an efficient modern gas . station A new report by the Civitas think tank warns that the UK is in danger of producing more carbon dioxide CO2 than necessary if the grid relies too much on wind , rdquo explained Mr Nuttall , UKIP . Euro-MP It has long been known that wind turbines only produce energy around 30 per cent of the time

  • The Anti-Midas Touch

    Updated: 2012-01-11 16:40:38
    Home News News The Anti-Midas Touch News The Anti-Midas Touch 11 01 2012 16:40 webmaster 11 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP While the southern states of the Eurozone may have ended up in a quagmire of overspending brought on by sudden access to low interest rates and the possibility to spend more than they could ever hope to accrue , Germany flourished due to riding roughshod over interest rates to suit her own booming manufacturing economy and has come out on top not just due to the German work ethic . but due to sheer bloody dominance of the single currency . quot Whatever Brussels touches turns into disaster , rather like a kind of . Anti-Midas We have seen Common Fisheries Policy destroy marine stocks and encroach upon the seas of developing countries , trawling their

  • Euro's 10th Anniversary: A Litany of Failure

    Updated: 2012-01-11 13:31:49
    : Home News News Euro's 10th Anniversary : A Litany of Failure News Euro's 10th Anniversary : A Litany of Failure 11 01 2012 13:31 webmaster 16 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP In 2012 it is business as usual . Obstinate and deluded , those in charge keep pushing the project in scenes reminiscent of a bad gambler who keeps going back to the table hoping the result will be different this time . This folly has and will continue to cost us , and our children , trillions now and in years to come if we do not stop it . quot This time ten years ago many European countries were embarking on a new era with the introduction of the euro . Co-incidentally I was also starting a new phase in my life : taking up my duties as the newly appointed European Commission Chief . Accountant

  • Hungary poses a stern test for Europe

    Updated: 2012-01-10 18:03:35
    The European institutions have rarely faced a sterner test than in their dealings with Hungary. As defender of the European treaties the Commission must do all in its power to protect the fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracy in the EU, yet any decision to block an EU-IMF aid package until Hungary’s authoritarian measures have [...]

  • Farage: `There is an agenda to strip freedom, liberty and democracy from people`

    Updated: 2012-01-10 13:45:52
    : , Home News News Farage : There is an agenda to strip freedom , liberty and democracy from people` News Farage : There is an agenda to strip freedom , liberty and democracy from people` 10 01 2012 13:45 webmaster 57 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds AUDIO King World News Gold to see its biggest spike in 2012 With world markets still convulsing and gold and silver reasserting themselves once again , King World News interviewed UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP 06.01.2012 to get his take on the situation . nbsp Farage had some powerful comments regarding the direction of gold , but when KWN asked about the chaos in Europe , Farage stated , The eurozone is in deep , deep crisis as everybody knows . nbsp Now we have a situation where peripheral countries , particularly those on the Mediterranean coast ,

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