• [Feature] US Internet rights bill 'clearest' ever on data privacy

    Updated: 2012-02-29 18:51:59
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  • EU and Ukraine in spat over ambassador

    Updated: 2012-02-29 18:44:10
    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 Top EU officials at a frosty summit with Yanukovych c in Kiev last December Photo : president.gov.ua EU and Ukraine in spat over ambassador Today 19:44 Related EU companies at risk of raiders' in Ukraine Ukraine prosecutor

  • [Opinion] North Kosovo 'solution' threatens Bosnia and Macedonia

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:30:57
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  • EU and Belarus preparing extra counter-measures

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:11:59
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  • Agnew: More EU legislation is `not the way ahead` on animal welfare

    Updated: 2012-02-29 16:40:35
    : Home News News Agnew : More EU legislation is not the way ahead` on animal welfare News Agnew : More EU legislation is not the way ahead` on animal welfare 29 02 2012 16:40 webmaster 52 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO During a debate in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee 28.02.2012 on the EU's Strategy for the protection and welfare of animals' , UKIP agriculture spokesman , Stuart Agnew MEP has bluntly stated that new EU legislation is not the way ahead . rdquo He said : We've got a lot of EU legislation , the problem is enforcement . nbsp There are laws on animal transportation , which are adequate but not being enforced . nbsp There are laws about not having battery cages for hens , but they the hens are still in the cages . rdquo Mr Agnew also pointed out that political

  • [Ticker] Juncker wants special commissioner for Greece

    Updated: 2012-02-29 10:13:11
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  • Germany prompts cancellation of euro summit

    Updated: 2012-02-29 10:10:33
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  • [Ticker] OECD: Greeks work more than Germans

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:40:42
    : 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 OECD : Greeks work more than Germans Today 09:40 By EUOBSERVER The Paris-based economic think tank , the OECD in a labour productivity report out on Tuesday said Greeks worked on average 2,017 hours

  • [Interview] Palestine's UN upgrade coming back on EU agenda

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:29:08
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  • ECB boosts loans to €1 trillion to stop credit crunch

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:27:58
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  • Irish to vote as treaty is outside normal EU structures

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:27:49
    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 A poster protesting the terms of the EU-IMF bailout programme the referendum may be held in May or June Photo : informatique Irish to vote as treaty is outside normal EU structures Today 09:27 Related Ireland to hold

  • [Ticker] Iran nuclear talks may resume

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:12:07
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  • [Ticker] Cancer will claim 1.3 million EU lives in 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:10:39
    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 Cancer will claim 1.3 million EU lives in 2012 Today 09:10 By EUOBSERVER Researchers in Italy and Switzerland released a study on Tuesday that predicts 1.3 million people will die of cancer in the EU27

  • [Ticker] Portugal bail-out on track

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:09:05
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  • [Ticker] UK seeks reform of European rights court

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:08:19
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  • [Ticker] France tables new version of genocide law

    Updated: 2012-02-29 08:07:16
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  • 'Vote yes for jobs!' say Irish supporters of the FU Treaty. Will voters fall for it a second time?

    Updated: 2012-02-29 07:34:52
    It won't make any difference. Even if Ireland votes against the FU Treaty, it’ll be imposed anyway. It’s what happened when the country voted against Nice in 2001, and against Lisbon in 2008. Brussels won’t take ‘No’ for an answer. This time, Eurocrats won’t even need to demand a rerun (‘go away and try again, [...]

  • Romania flexes muscle at EU meeting on Serbia

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:49:53
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  • [Ticker] EU countries pull ambassadors from Minsk

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:19:13
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  • EU ambassadors quit Minsk in tit-for-tat move

    Updated: 2012-02-28 17:16:28
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  • Spain to test beefed-up EU budget rules

    Updated: 2012-02-28 16:56:43
    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 Spain to test beefed-up EU budget rules 28.02.12 17:56 Related Recession-marred Spain pushing for an ease in deficit targets Commission pledges collective rights directive within weeks’ Third Greek bail-out not ruled out

  • Ireland to hold referendum on fiscal compact

    Updated: 2012-02-28 16:18:30
    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 Institutional Affairs Enda Kenny says the Irish people need to be consulted on the fiscal treaty Photo : Council of European Union Ireland to hold referendum on fiscal compact 28.02.12 17:18 Related Ireland plans

  • We may have become a Euro-colony, but our values live on in the Anglosphere

    Updated: 2012-02-28 15:55:20
    The United Kingdom joined the EEC on a false premise. In 1972, most British people believed that they were trading sovereignty for prosperity: in exchange for ceding a limited degree of democratic self-rule, they'd be joining a large and prosperous market. Does anyone still believe in that equation today? With every week that passes, it [...]

  • [Ticker] Ireland to hold referendum on fiscal treaty

    Updated: 2012-02-28 15:21:23
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  • [Ticker] German court says EFSF committee largely unconstitutional

    Updated: 2012-02-28 09:37:33
    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 German court says EFSF committee largely unconstitutional 28.02.12 10:37 By EUOBSERVER The German Constitutional Court Tuesday ruled that a special 9-person parliamentary committee set up to decide on

  • [Ticker] Finns to vote on Greek bail-out

    Updated: 2012-02-28 09:11:52
    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 Finns to vote on Greek bail-out 28.02.12 10:11 By EUOBSERVER Finland is to vote on the next tranche of the Greek bail-out on Tuesday , Finnish national broadcaster YLE reported . Finland's contribution

  • [Ticker] Overfishing could continue under EU fisheries policy

    Updated: 2012-02-28 09:10:04
    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 Overfishing could continue under EU fisheries policy 28.02.12 10:10 By EUOBSERVER EU subsidised trawlers fishing off the coastlines of developing countries may be exempt from strict quotas , the

  • Greek debt report reinforces doubts on bail-out deal

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:21:36
    It’s no surprise that the “disciplinary” elements of this week’s Greek bail-out deal have been badly received by many in Greece. Strengthening of the Commission Task Force in Athens to provide an “enhanced and permanent presence” to oversee Greek government measures, and deposit of quarterly debt repayment funds in an escrow account to ensure their [...]

  • Bloom presses on for a fiscal crimes tribunal

    Updated: 2012-02-27 15:45:51
    Home News News Bloom presses on for a fiscal crimes tribunal News Bloom presses on for a fiscal crimes tribunal 27 02 2012 15:45 webmaster 205 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Related VIDEO Strasbourg , 14.02.2012 Following his earlier call in Strasbourg , February 14, UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom is again demanding for a fiscal crimes tribunal to investigate the complicity of central bankers , politicians and bureaucrats in bringing about the current financial . crisis Politicians must stop this constant fiscal disaster denial , quot he points out on his blog Greece is a failed state , it is broke , revenues down , spending up and GDP plunging . It is over , the next roll over is March 30th . This is my guess for the date when the world finally accepts . it Again I demand a fiscal crimes tribunal and

  • Watson's warrant overrides judicial tradition

    Updated: 2012-02-27 14:53:57
    Home News News Watson's warrant overrides judicial tradition News Watson's warrant overrides judicial tradition 27 02 2012 14:53 webmaster 137 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson pictured fails to mention that the European Arrest Warrant he so forcefully supports has been used more than 200 times in the last year to haul British citizens abroad to face months in prison without charges being brought and with no evidence submitted to a British . court By William Dartmouth MEP thisissomerset.co.uk Yet again Sir Graham Watson MEP cannot resist telling the world that he is the man responsible for guiding the ill conceived and flawed European Arrest warrant through the European . Parliament Indeed Sir Graham seems to be proud of his part in bringing about this legislation even

  • My favourite Anglosphere politician

    Updated: 2012-02-26 05:41:31
    In a press conference on Saturday, Kevin Rudd, who has resigned as foreign minister to challenge his boss, Julia Gillard, said something revealing. 'The job of the Australian government', he pronounced, 'is to keep Tony Abbott out'. Really? That's the primary purpose of the state machine of the Commonwealth of Australia? Not to run the [...]

  • Fighting Wind Farms: A guide for campaigners

    Updated: 2012-02-25 16:08:10
    : Home News News Fighting Wind Farms : A guide for campaigners News Fighting Wind Farms : A guide for campaigners 25 02 2012 16:08 webmaster 45 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Published by Godfrey Bloom MEP This booklet is intended as an introduction to effective campaigning against wind farms . The following pages offer a number of arguments against wind energy , which may persuade you or help you to persuade others that wind energy is quite simply a bad idea . nbsp Rather than providing a complete and technical account of the many concerns about wind energy that campaigners have raised over the years , an overview of them is given here as a starting point for further research . Seasoned wind farm campaigners start out as ordinary folk , but more often than not end up as experts in matters of

  • The Creation of a European Union Police State

    Updated: 2012-02-25 15:51:10
    Home News News The Creation of a European Union Police State News The Creation of a European Union Police State 25 02 2012 15:51 webmaster 25 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds From Gerard Batten's website Coming soon : Gerard Batten's new booklet Freedom , Security Justice Or the Creation of a European Union Police State in which he exposes the creation of an EU criminal justice system that will supersede our own legal system , and how it is already destroying our ancient freedoms and protections under English . law This is being done by means of the action programmes agreed by EU governments including the Lib-Lab-Con to create the necessary institutions and legal instruments to make it possible . Read how far we are already down the slippery slope and what is planned . More importantly read what

  • The EU plans to create jobs by decree

    Updated: 2012-02-24 05:35:53
    In a press conference on Saturday, Kevin Rudd, who has resigned as foreign minister to challenge his boss, Julia Gillard, said something revealing. 'The job of the Australian government', he pronounced, 'is to keep Tony Abbott out'. Really? That's the primary purpose of the state machine of the Commonwealth of Australia? Not to run the [...]

  • Labour leadership ballot as MPs recognise that their present boss is unelectable

    Updated: 2012-02-23 06:13:34
    In their hearts, most Labour MPs know that they can't win under their present leader. Winning, though, is never the sole consideration. Electoral calculations are compromised by personal rivalries and ambitions. Plenty of MPs would rather be a spokesman under X in opposition than a backbencher under Y in government. Loyalists try to tell themselves [...]

  • Stuart Agnew instrumental in obtaining Commission concession for UK farmers

    Updated: 2012-02-23 04:56:15
    Home News News Stuart Agnew instrumental in obtaining Commission concession for UK farmers News Stuart Agnew instrumental in obtaining Commission concession for UK farmers 23 02 2012 04:56 webmaster 17 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Stuart Agnew MEP instrumental in obtaining Commission concession for UK farmers on greening measures British MEP Stuart Agnew was instrumental in ensuring that UK farmers will not be penalised by the EU for already being involved in environmental schemes created by the Government . nbsp Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos has now officially confirmed the details of what he said in a European Parliamentary debate on 15th November 2011, in response to cross examination from Mr Agnew video During the plenary debate , Mr Agnew challenged Commissioner Dacian Ciolos

  • The Most Expensive Sticking Plaster in the World

    Updated: 2012-02-23 04:44:39
    Home News News The Most Expensive Sticking Plaster in the World News The Most Expensive Sticking Plaster in the World 23 02 2012 04:44 webmaster 203 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Imagine those same atrocious conditions being imposed in the UK and you can start to feel a bit of empathy for the . Greeks By John Bufton MEP It's been labelled the most expensive sticking plaster in the . world Greece has been granted the biggest bail out in history . An eye watering 130 billion Euros will be put into a separate piggy bank for Greece to spend on debt repayment . nbsp But such an exorbitant gift comes at a high . price The Eurogroup Finance Ministers of member states of the single currency announced that the second bail out would ensure debt sustainability and restore competitiveness . In short ,

  • Whatever the problem, the EU's solution is always to spend spend spend

    Updated: 2012-02-21 16:00:25
    It is difficult to convey the determination of MEPs and Eurocrats to respond to the debt crisis with yet more expenditure; but the clip above (hat-tip, UKIP) might give you some idea. The first instinct of the Euro-functionary, in any crisis, is to reach for his wallet – or, rather, to reach for your wallet, [...]

  • Greece: The End of the Affair?

    Updated: 2012-02-21 10:24:04
    This morning we wake up to news that – finally – Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to bail out Greece for the second time to the tune of €130 billion. The “aid”, as it is referred to (making Greece sound like a third world country) is conditional on the European Commission having a presence on [...]

  • Leaving the euro isn't a punishment: it's Greece's last chance for recovery

    Updated: 2012-02-16 16:04:06
      How much worse do things have to get, for Heaven’s sake? Greek politicians keep repeating that leaving the euro would be an economic disaster. As opposed to what, precisely? The present Wirtschaftswunder? In 2011, the Greek economy contracted, not by the forecast three per cent, but by six per cent. Sixty thousand small firms [...]

  • Americans! Please stop calling us Europeans!

    Updated: 2012-02-15 18:11:20
    The Cousins have finally clocked the EU for what it is: a corporatist, protectionist, anti-American racket. Heaven knows it took them long enough. For decades, they did everything they could to encourage political integration, pouring money into the European Movement, ending every summit with a demand for deeper union. Not any more. Most Americans are now watching [...]

  • Farage: Troika Pushing Greece Towards Revolution

    Updated: 2012-02-15 13:23:28
    : Home News News Farage : Troika Pushing Greece Towards Revolution News Farage : Troika Pushing Greece Towards Revolution 15 02 2012 13:23 webmaster 50 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Speaking in the European Parliament in Strasbourg today , UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the EU Commission that the EU austerity package was driving Greece into the ground and would cause a revolution . Greece is not run through democracy now , it is run through a Troika three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and cannot do , quot Mr Farage said , referring to the EU-ECB-IMF troika that effectively governs Greece through their installed puppet , PM Papademos . These policies are driving Greece towards a revolution . They need to be set free . If they don't get

  • East of England MEP welcomes EU’s update of bluetongue vaccination rules

    Updated: 2012-02-15 00:56:44
    Wednesday, 15th February – Strasbourg – This week, the European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved new rules which will allow widespread preventive vaccination against the livestock disease bluetongue. Previous EU rules only allowed a farmer to vaccinate if they were in a designated exclusion zone. This was because the vaccines were “live” and therefore could [...]

  • Managing the word on the (Brussels) street

    Updated: 2012-02-14 16:35:57
    What does it take to weather a reputation storm in Europe’s capital? FH Brussels mulls it over at European Public Affairs Action Day. Reputation. Built over time; destroyed in an instant. Coveted but capricious, it can seem uncontrollably fragile when disaster hits. But it is possible to keep reputation safe and sound in the face [...]

  • When Eurocrats become the baddies in thrillers, it's all over for Brussels

    Updated: 2012-02-14 06:11:54
    Thrillers can tell you a great deal about the preoccupations of a society. Their plots don't have to be entirely believable, but their milieus do. For the trick to come off, the baddies ought to reflect readers' anxieties. Once they were Soviet agents, then wicked multinationals, then Islamist bombers. Now they are Eurocrats. In the [...]

  • The EU has squandered billions on its failed fisheries policy

    Updated: 2012-02-13 13:05:38
    Home News News The EU has squandered billions on its failed fisheries policy News The EU has squandered billions on its failed fisheries policy 13 02 2012 13:05 webmaster 35 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP Related Video CONT committee , 9 Feb 2012 A report on the failings of the Common Fisheries Policy , compiled by the EU's own Court of Auditors was formally released yesterday to MEP's in the Budgetary Control Committee . I have been tasked with guiding the report through . Parliament In short , the report states that despite the huge amounts of taxpayers cash spent on the : policy 1.7 billion euros have been wasted since 2002 on vessel decommissioning with no tangible results 90 of fish stocks are over fished , 30 of these over safe biological limits 100,000 jobs have

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

    Updated: 2012-02-13 08:44:17
          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 provide [...]

  • MEPs Preach Austerity, Practice Luxury

    Updated: 2012-02-10 00:05:00
    , Home News News MEPs Preach Austerity , Practice Luxury News MEPs Preach Austerity , Practice Luxury 10 02 2012 00:05 webmaster 4 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Shame seems to be a foreign concept to the exalted political class in Brussels that run the EU , a constantly morphing and expanding entity referred to euphemistically by EU insiders as The Project . rdquo William F . Jasper The New American Marta Andreasen , the courageous former chief accountant of the European Union , will not give up . In 2002 she was fired for refusing to sign off on the European Commission's accounts . But she has continued to hold the EU politicians and eurocrats in Brussels to account , exposing fraud , waste and corruption on her website In 2009 she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament MEP for

  • Fierce troika attack on Greek labour costs

    Updated: 2012-02-09 13:25:00
    Devaluation was invariably the path to survival for weaker European economies in the days before the euro. But when devaluation is no longer an option, there is evidently no choice for failing economies but to squeeze public spending and slash labour costs in the hope of paying off debt and restoring competitiveness. A striking aspect [...]

  • Bloom: QE is counterfeiting by any other name

    Updated: 2012-02-09 13:20:15
    : Home News News Bloom : QE is counterfeiting by any other name News Bloom : QE is counterfeiting by any other name 09 02 2012 13:20 webmaster 123 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom defends his stance to raise interest rates to 6 per cent , saying that spending and borrowing is still out of control Donia O'Loughlin follows up on last week's interview with Godfrey Bloom on FTAdviser Pumping money into the economy via asset purchases , otherwise known as quantitative easing , is counterfeiting by any other name and if a private citizen attempted it they would go to prison a member of the European Parliament has claimed . Godfrey Bloom , MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire , does not think QE is sustainable , claiming that politicians can only raise money by taxation and

  • Maastricht 20 years down the line

    Updated: 2012-02-08 17:32:10
    Home News News Maastricht 20 years down the line News Maastricht 20 years down the line 08 02 2012 17:32 webmaster 25 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty . On 7th February 1992 the European Economic Community laid the foundations for becoming the bureaucratic beast it is today . Common Foreign and Security Policy was adopted , as well as the creation of Justice and Home Affairs . The EEC now extended into military and judicial cooperation . But perhaps most ironically , Maastricht also led to the creation of the currency of . Europe A mere two decades later , the Eurozone is on the brink of collapse . How timely that next month the clock ticks down on Greece to address its public finances . Twenty years to the exact day

  • What a Week for Wind

    Updated: 2012-02-08 16:05:18
    Home News News What a Week for Wind News What a Week for Wind 08 02 2012 16:46 webmaster 1 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds More than a 100 MPs have signed a joint letter to David Cameron , demanding specific changes to Britain's energy policy . But it's not really a choice that constituents , or even David Cameron have . It's not a choice Chris Huhne , or his predecessor Ed Miliband had . The terms of our energy policies are determined in Brussels and Strasbourg . There's no democracy about it . By Godfrey Bloom MEP Well , what a week it has been for wind energy . First Chris Huhne finally being called to account for his misdeeds . And then the Tory MPs who , like their constituents have had enough of wind energy . The least of Chris Huhne's sins were , in my mind , the fact that he got his

  • Anger over BBC EU grants

    Updated: 2012-02-08 13:09:10
    Home News News Anger over BBC EU grants News Anger over BBC EU grants 08 02 2012 13:09 webmaster 13 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The Eurosceptic think-tank Global Britain has found that over the past six years just 0.04 per cent of coverage on Radio 4's Today programme was devoted to the potential benefits of withdrawing from the EU . UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has welcomed admissions by the BBC that it has pocketed almost 3million in EU grants since 2007. UKIP has long known that the Corporation was getting money from Brussels and it is good that it has now been forced into admitting the scale of this disgrace , rdquo said Mr Nuttall , North West . Euro-MP Details emerged following a Parliamentary Question by MP Karl McCartney and the BBC has also revealed its commercial arm BBC Worldwide has

  • Chinese Cars

    Updated: 2012-02-07 17:58:56
    Home News News Chinese Cars News Chinese Cars 07 02 2012 17:58 webmaster 40 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds One might bring to mind the Japanese overtaking the German camera industry , inconceivable to my father's generation . Europe and North America seem to have produced the most out of touch and complacent politicians for 60 years . They must go , and go soon . quot By Godfrey Bloom MEP Those who watched Sunday night's Top Gear programme might have been surprised that China now manufacturers more automobiles than Europe . Before you say Good Lord , there's a thing and move on , be aware of what this . means The dominance of American car production , thought unassailable post war was completely out performed by European and Japanese manufacturers to the extent that some of the great US brand

  • That Non-Treaty-Treaty Veto U-Turn Thingey

    Updated: 2012-02-03 18:06:31
    Home News News That Non-Treaty-Treaty Veto U-Turn Thingey News That Non-Treaty-Treaty Veto U-Turn Thingey 03 02 2012 18:06 webmaster 67 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP This week has seen plenty of dicsussion about David Cameron's treaty U-Turn In fact I was a little startled to not see the matter picked over on Question Time last night but one assumes the BBC hadn't picked the right members of the panel for . that The Prime Minister has revoked his original standpoint of blocking a new compact observing tighter fiscal regulation and budgetary control governed by the European Court of Justice . That is now going ahead , but without the involvement of the UK or Czech Republic . What does this mean Well before Christmas the UK vetoed a new treaty which would effectively see

  • EU Milk Propaganda

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:35:23
    Home News News EU Milk Propaganda News EU Milk Propaganda 03 02 2012 17:35 webmaster 55 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The Brussels bureaucrats are just giving back an infinitesimal part of the 50 million we hand over to them every . day Children should be given unbiased information about the EU but . at every turn pro-EU propaganda is directed at them . quot Paul Nuttall MEP The EU are milking every opportunity to target propaganda at young children , UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has pointed . out We keep coming across incidents of the EU blatantly targeting school children and yet one more example has now come to my attention , rdquo said Paul . Nuttall Schools which get European Union subsidised milk are forced to display a large poster highlighting the fact that the school provides dairy products

  • The Alice in Wonderland School of Banking

    Updated: 2012-02-03 16:04:03
    Home News News The Alice in Wonderland School of Banking News The Alice in Wonderland School of Banking 03 02 2012 16:04 webmaster 94 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Godfrey Bloom MEP First establish a monster retail bank by amalgamating several banks across the United Kingdom . You call it the Royal Bank of Scotland . Sounds so wonderfully stable . Three magnificent words , all heralding financial probity . Even the dark blue logo gave the impression your money would be safe for a thousand years . Every main street in every town had a branch . In every branch smart young girls waiting to pounce on you with financial advice . For they had done the course' . They had a diploma . Of course , closer examination would reveal there was no Captain Mainwairing figure in the background they had been

  • Andreasen warns against `Germanistaion` of economies as eurozone unemploymet reaches record high

    Updated: 2012-02-03 10:27:03
    Home News News Andreasen warns against Germanistaion` of economies as eurozone unemploymet reaches record high News Andreasen warns against Germanistaion` of economies as eurozone unemploymet reaches record high 03 02 2012 10:27 webmaster 30 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP Unemployment figures across the Eurozone reached record levels yesterday 31.02.2012 The jobless rate in the 17 countries that use the Euro was up to 10.4 in December . 16.5 million people were out of work in the eurozone in December , up 751,000 on the year before . The highest rate is in Spain at 22.9 while the lowest is in Austria at 4.1 On Monday we saw the attempt to Germanise' the entire eurozone by forcing all countries into tighter fiscal controls set by Angela Merkel but controlled in . Brussels

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