• EU countries explore alternatives to financial tax

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:02:53
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  • Two thirds of Icelanders oppose EU membership. Can you blame them?

    Updated: 2012-03-31 11:32:20
    Leftie bloggers keep returning, as a dog returneth to its vomit, to my admiration for Iceland. The fact that I praised Iceland's economic model is a source of constant delight to them. Yet they are starting to look badly behind the times. Iceland is growing faster than the eurozone and, because its government didn't make [...]

  • Juncker 'furious' with talkative Austrian minister

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:33:37
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  • 'We need to invest in a European identity'

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:03:50
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  • A Brilliant Brussels Idea!

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:50:50
    Home News News A Brilliant Brussels Idea News A Brilliant Brussels Idea 30 03 2012 15:50 webmaster 25 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP At last , some really good news from the European Institutions They're launching the European Citizens' Initiative You'll be able to set up a petition , and when you've collected the signatures , you can come to Brussels and present your idea or your issue to the parliament and to the Commission . nbsp There may be a good lunch in it too Of course there are terms and conditions . nbsp You'll have to collect a million signatures . nbsp You must do it within twelve months . nbsp The signatures must come from at least seven EU countries , and there is a minimum threshold for each country to qualify . nbsp In the case of the UK , it's about

  • EU ambassadors returning to Belarus

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:50:34
    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 Minsk EU diplomats say the ambassadors' return does not mean relations have improved Photo : joquel EU ambassadors returning to Belarus 30.03.12 17:50 Related EU ponders sending back Belarus ambassadors France : Slovenia

  • [Ticker] IMF chief welcomes eurozone firewall increase

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:37:20
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  • [Ticker] Spain unveils €27bn in budget cuts

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:36:03
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  • [Focus] Earthquake zone on EU border to host Belarus nuclear plant

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:50:31
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  • The Chinese Curse of EU Green Energy

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:27:19
    Home News News The Chinese Curse of EU Green Energy News The Chinese Curse of EU Green Energy 30 03 2012 14:27 webmaster 31 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The really interesting news is that the 1 trillion EU budget for 2014-2020 is worse than anything we have seen in the recent granny-bashing UK budget . An amazing 200 billion is earmarked for climate action' and decarbonisation of our EU economy . In real money this is 27.5 billion per year , and about 12 times what the UK government raised from anti-carbon Air Passenger Duty taxation in 2011. Can you feel the taxman's hand in your pocket right now Well if you can , soon EU Climate Change commissioner Connie Hedegaard will have her hand in the other . quot Click on image to enlarge . Source By Godfrey Bloom MEP The well known ancient Chinese

  • Referendum: Over 100,000 sign People`s Pledge

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:25:08
    : Home News News Referendum : Over 100,000 sign People`s Pledge News Referendum : Over 100,000 sign People`s Pledge 30 03 2012 14:25 webmaster 32 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has welcomed news that 100,000 people have now signed the People's Pledge in support of a referendum on UK membership of the European . Union It has not taken long for these names to be added , and I am not at all surprised . People are fed up to the back teeth with their day to day lives being dictated by faceless EU . bureaucrats Currently 75 of our rules emanate from Brussels and that situation will not get better until we leave the European Union and make our own rules as we always used to , rdquo said Mr Nuttall , UKIP Euro-MP for the North . West More and more folk are realising that they

  • Derek Clark's Brussels Commentary: 26-29 March

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:01:51
    : Home News News Derek Clark's Brussels Commentary : 26-29 March News Derek Clark's Brussels Commentary : 26-29 March 30 03 2012 14:01 webmaster 29 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP MEP Derek Clark covers the employment committee meetings of the 26-27 March , the Brussels mini-plenary session , 28-29 March 2012, and more . By Derek Clark MEP Employment Committee 26th 27th Joined for the first time by Roger Helmer as a UKIP MEP who retains his place on this committee . He is very welcome as far as I am . concerned A dire agenda , unless you think that , Strengthening economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the Euro area is exciting . Actually it is . This will bring in examination of

  • [Ticker] Austrian minister steals show on euro-firewall announcement

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:59:16
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  • 2010 Discharge: A story of waste and dodgy accounting

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:36:59
    : Home News News 2010 Discharge : A story of waste and dodgy accounting News 2010 Discharge : A story of waste and dodgy accounting 30 03 2012 13:36 webmaster 47 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP In a clear snub to Chancellor George Osborne who refused to sign off the EU budget for 2010, the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee officially approved the EU accounts in their entirety on Monday 26 03 The Committee , responsible for scrutinising irregularities and ensuring financial probity did this despite the fact that 4.6 billion of payments from the EU budget taxpayer's money are irregular' according to the European Court of . Auditors The Court of Auditors Report on the 2010 budget showed that irregularities' or possible fraud in layman's terms were on the rise

  • [Ticker] Eurozone firewall increased to €700bn

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:52:37
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  • Agnew condemns Howitt over Turkish immigration stance

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:46:42
    Home News News Agnew condemns Howitt over Turkish immigration stance News Agnew condemns Howitt over Turkish immigration stance 30 03 2012 11:46 webmaster 44 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds www.stuartagnewmep.co.uk The Eastern Counties MEP , Stuart Agnew , has condemned Labour MEP Richard Howitt , who also represents the Eastern Counties , for remarks he has made in the European Parliament this week , in which he welcomed Turkish membership of the EU and suggested that it would make the East of England more . prosperous Responding to a blue card question from UKIP MEP William Dartmouth in which he was asked if he had ever considered the impact on his constituency of Turkish accession to the EU , which would give 90 million Turks the absolute right to live , work and settle in the UK Mr Howitt

  • George Galloway and the rise of sectarian politics

    Updated: 2012-03-30 10:34:19
    Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability. It is hard not to feel a batsqueak of admiration for George Galloway. Most British people like to see mavericks beating the system, and Gorgeous George has smarmed his way through personal, political and financial crises that would have brought down almost any other public figure. [...]

  • [Ticker] Greek PM does not rule out third bail-out

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:56:48
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  • Nato among those accused of letting migrants die at sea

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:40:34
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  • Nato among those accused of letting migrants die at sea

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:40:34
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  • [Ticker] Strong majority of MEPs want single seat

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:25:08
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  • [Ticker] Commission wants better saftey rules for offshore rigs

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:14:19
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  • [Ticker] OECD: Europe and US economies will drift apart

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:11:52
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  • [Ticker] EU report: Congo election flawed

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:08:41
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  • [Ticker] UK report rejects EU financial transaction tax

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:07:47
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  • [Ticker] EU to 'initial' Ukraine agreement today

    Updated: 2012-03-30 09:04:56
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  • Polish minister: EU and Nato might fall apart

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:27:35
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  • EBRD funds pocketed by Lukashenko henchmen, politician says

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:22:54
    , 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 EBRD funds pocketed by Lukashenko henchmen , politician says 30.03.12 09:22 Related EU diplomats : Slovenia put hotel deal before human rights Spain's football clubs cause stir in Germany What the EU should do to end

  • EU billions flow to Lukashenko despite sanctions

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:19:11
    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 Pipeline : EU trade with Belarus is on the rise Photo : gTarded EU billions flow to Lukashenko despite sanctions 30.03.12 09:19 Related EU and Belarus preparing extra counter-measures What the EU should do to end state

  • [Opinion] Monti’s lack of popular mandate could come back with a vengeance

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:07:06
    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 Opinion The best scenario would perhaps be for Monti himself to run in the elections in 2013 to get that clear mandate and get on with business Photo : ec.europa.eu Opinion Monti’s lack of popular mandate could come back with a vengeance 30.03.12 09:07 Related Monti to make Italy driving force' of EU integration Monti and Merkel

  • EU opts for minimal increase on eurozone firewall

    Updated: 2012-03-30 08:03:11
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  • [Focus] EU to delay decision on Sony and Universal EMI take-over

    Updated: 2012-03-29 20:07:50
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  • Dutch government wobbles in talks on EU budget goals

    Updated: 2012-03-29 19:22:05
    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 Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been meeting with negotiators from all three parties Photo : Bamshad Houshyani Dutch government wobbles in talks on EU budget goals 29.03.12 20:22 Related Dutch far-right defector raises calls

  • European Environment Agency busted

    Updated: 2012-03-29 15:34:15
    Home News News European Environment Agency busted News European Environment Agency busted 29 03 2012 14:34 webmaster 8 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The EEA has faced heavy criticism from the normally supine' Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament claims UKIP MEP Godfrey . Bloom By Godfrey Bloom MEP PSEurope The European Environment Agency is one of those quangos that exists somewhere between reality and subsidy . In 2010, it received from the European Union purse that is the taxpayer more than 38m . No small sum . It is headed up by Professor Jacquie McGlade , a statistical marine biologist . Essentially , her career has been about building computer models . Her job runs until the middle of next year . And she has just received the most horrendous dressing-down from the

  • Today, MEPs want to exclude fascist parties. Tomorrow…

    Updated: 2012-03-28 15:16:47
    Before we start banning private donations to political parties, consider a cautionary tale. The European Parliament is currently tying itself in knots trying to take money away from fascists. Unable to do so within the rules, Leftist MEPs now want to overturn the rules by majority vote. Since 2003, the EU has subsidised pan-European parties and alliances. Let [...]

  • An aero-space evening

    Updated: 2012-03-28 09:29:15
    Home News News An aero-space evening News An aero-space evening 28 03 2012 09:37 webmaster 2 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Coming soon to an airport near you : the return of the propeller By Roger Helmer MEP On Tuesday I attended an event organised by the aero-space group in the parliament , for a presentation on the EU's CleanSky project . nbsp This is a large-scale project to develop cleaner aviation , and the main thrust of the evening seemed to be an appeal for CleanSky 2 Put in plain language , it seemed to be an appeal for further funding after the initial CleanSky programme runs out in 2016. Such is the way of bureaucracies and quangoes : they grow , they extend , they need more . money We need to get this in perspective , of course . nbsp I yield to no one in my opposition to European

  • Irish Euro-referendum set for 31 May

    Updated: 2012-03-27 22:17:31
    Opinion polls indicate a big win for the Pro-Treaty Forces and they may, for all I know, be right. Still, contemplate the image above. Two-and-a-half years ago, in the run-up to the second Lisbon referendum, every mainstream Irish politician was promising that a 'Yes' vote would lead to recovery (alright – every politician except this [...]

  • EU plans to dissolve Tate & Lyle`s `Mr Cube`

    Updated: 2012-03-27 20:19:55
    Home News News EU plans to dissolve Tate Lyle`s Mr Cube` News EU plans to dissolve Tate Lyle`s Mr Cube` 27 03 2012 19:19 webmaster 37 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Today in the European Parliament , UKIP MEP and farmer Stuart Agnew lambasted EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş over the EU sugar quota system that is crippling the Tate and Lyle sugar factory in London with 850 jobs at . stake The American owners of Tate and Lyle Sugars may be forced to close its London factory because of EU tariffs on sugar . imports There is a lot of sugar in the world the company could buy , but the EU tariff regime prevents them from buying this sugar economically , and the tarriff-free cane quota is far too small for Tate and . Lyle It Tate and Lyle needs more tariff-free raw material , quot

  • Good news for the ozone layer, but what lessons for climate change?

    Updated: 2012-03-27 10:54:37
    A few days ago the death was announced of F. Sherwood Rowland, the American scientist who identified the damage being caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to the earth’s protective ozone layer. His pioneering scientific work and the fierce campaigning by him and his collaborators led to a UN framework agreement to tackle the problem and to [...]

  • UKIP gaining momentum, polling at 8%

    Updated: 2012-03-26 21:35:18
    , Home News News UKIP gaining momentum , polling at 8 News UKIP gaining momentum , polling at 8 26 03 2012 20:35 webmaster 25 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Latest poll figures in the Mail on Sunday that put UKIP at over 8 following a fortnight in which a rash of leading political figures have joined the party shows that political momentum lies with us , said UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall . MEP People are beginning to realise that there is another choice in British politics beyond the tired old three parties of discredited . government On issue after issue , whether it be tax , education or a simple belief that we are better qualified to live our own lives rather than have the arrogant elite decide for us , people are realising that it is UKIP that best speaks for them , rdquo said Mr .

  • Telling Barroso where to stick his £6.4 billion

    Updated: 2012-03-26 21:25:53
    Home News News Telling Barroso where to stick his 6.4 billion News Telling Barroso where to stick his 6.4 billion 26 03 2012 20:25 webmaster 27 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP Today's press has largely revolved around the CamDineWithMe thread Just who has the Prime Minister had to dinner One wonders whether Mr Cameron has had Jose Manuel Barroso over for fish and chips and a pot of tea , judging by the astonishing offer the President of the European Commission put on the table last . week In a bid to push through the controversial Financial Transactions Tax , or Tobin Tax , which would see a levy placed on all international transactions that would go straight to EU coffers , Mr Barroso waved a tantalizing metaphorical wad of cash under our Prime Minister's . nose He proposed

  • Our freedoms are rooted in the common law

    Updated: 2012-03-26 15:57:00
    'To the liberalism they profess, I prefer the liberties we enjoy; to the Rights of Man, the rights of Englishmen.' Benjamin Disraeli

  • An EU referendum is inevitable; its outcome is not

    Updated: 2012-03-25 20:29:38
    A referendum on EU membership is starting to feel unavoidable. Boris Johnson's support for the People's Pledge is just the latest token of a changed atmosphere. When the question was last put before the House of Commons, none of the main parties argued that consulting the people was wrong in principle. It was hardly a [...]

  • Minimum alcohol pricing – a disproportionate response to a declining problem

    Updated: 2012-03-23 16:09:56
      Indeed, they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander—Drink, ho!—are nothing to your English. The poet reminds us that our national propensity to drunkenness is not new. For all the alarmism about an 'epidemic of binge-drinking', the phenomenon seems to be in decline. According to the Office of National [...]

  • EU gives coal the cold-shoulder

    Updated: 2012-03-23 11:20:54
    Home News News EU gives coal the cold-shoulder News EU gives coal the cold-shoulder 23 03 2012 11:20 webmaster 13 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The EU institutions are so in love with their renewable dream that they have written off coal entirely although it accounts for over a quarter of European generation , and will continue to do so . quot Click on image to enlarge . Source By Roger Helmer MEP In a remarkable meeting in Brussels on Wednesday , the Coal Industry appealed for fair and decent treatment from the EU , and went away . empty-handed The event was the 16th Round Table on Coal , intended to allow a dialogue between legislators and industry . nbsp But in a packed room thirty round the table and perhaps double that in chairs around the wall , or standing , or sitting on the broad

  • Fooling Around With `Fuel Poverty`

    Updated: 2012-03-23 10:40:49
    Home News News Fooling Around With Fuel Poverty` News Fooling Around With Fuel Poverty` 23 03 2012 10:40 webmaster 28 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds If the government abandoned its climate targets , stopped offering huge subsidies to renewable energy generators , and allowed suppliers to compete freely , prices would fall , and fuel poverty' would not be an issue . quot UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom By Godfrey Bloom MEP As anybody who has seen the satire , Yes , Minister will know , when politicians want to hide the fact that their government is not performing well , they simply change the method by which its performance is measured . And they get an independent' expert to justify changing it . In just this way , the Department for Energy and Climate Change commissioned a report , which , surprise

  • MEPs vote against whistleblowers and perks cut-backs

    Updated: 2012-03-23 08:53:34
    Home News News MEPs vote against whistleblowers and perks cut-backs News MEPs vote against whistleblowers and perks cut-backs 23 03 2012 08:53 webmaster 35 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP MEPs in Brussels decided to vote against changes that would spell the end of negative effects' on staff who inform about irregularities' in budgets to their . superiors They also voted against changes that would have placed time limits on generous expatriation allowances , household allowances and removal expenses all paid to EU staff out of the public . purse The votes took place in Budgetary Control Committee of which I am a member . Remember this is the committee supposedly responsible for ensuring fiscal restraint and financial probity at EU level So , when given the opportunity to

  • Stuart Agnew accuses EU of ‘chasing fairies’ on greening measures

    Updated: 2012-03-23 08:15:05
    Home News News Stuart Agnew accuses EU of chasing fairies’ on greening measures News Stuart Agnew accuses EU of chasing fairies’ on greening measures 23 03 2012 08:15 webmaster 61 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Speaking during a debate this week in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee on the impact of greening proposals on farming , Stuart Agnew the East of England MEP and agriculture spokesman for the UK Independence Party has ridiculed the EU's claim that setting aside farm land can influence the climate . nbsp Mr Agnew told the Committee : nbsp These measures are supposed to be executable and verifiable' . nbsp How can you prove that anything we do is going to change the climate You are chasing fairies . We are not going to change the climate . nbsp We respond to changes in

  • Commission setting up more trade barriers in power grab proposal

    Updated: 2012-03-22 14:20:45
    Home News News Commission setting up more trade barriers in power grab proposal News Commission setting up more trade barriers in power grab proposal 22 03 2012 14:20 webmaster 16 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP The EU Commission has just published rules on international procurement markets that would give the Commission powers to block contracts worth over 5 million . In the event of repeated and serious discrimination against European suppliers in non-EU countries , the Commission would also have powers to block access to the EU . market UKIP MEP William Dartmouth , a full member of the International Trade Committee in the European Parliament INTE and EFD Group coordinator on this committee said in response : today This shows whatever the intentions of this regulation it is a clear

  • Can you guess where the European Parliament stands on motherhood and apple pie?

    Updated: 2012-03-22 10:49:16
      Indeed, they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander—Drink, ho!—are nothing to your English. The poet reminds us that our national propensity to drunkenness is not new. For all the alarmism about an 'epidemic of binge-drinking', the phenomenon seems to be in decline. According to the Office of National [...]

  • The De-industrialisation of Europe

    Updated: 2012-03-21 11:49:32
    Home News News The De-industrialisation of Europe News The De-industrialisation of Europe 21 03 2012 11:49 webmaster 88 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds May I ask the Commissioner if he has considered the competitive position of Europe in the world The EU is pursuing expensive , unreliable and intermittent renewables , while China and India race to build coal-fired power stations , and America looks forward to an industrial renaissance based on cheap , indigenous fossil fuel shale gas . nbsp How will the EU compete UKIP MEP Roger Helmer to EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger 20.03.2012 By Roger Helmer MEP Last night we MEPs had an opportunity for what's called an exchange of views with German Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger . nbsp He set out to describe his Energy Road-Map to 2050

  • Taxpayers of Europe! Every penny you save at home is being squandered by Brussels!

    Updated: 2012-03-21 09:40:14
    I'm spending the day hosting a meeting at the European Parliament for taxpayer associations from around Europe. I can't tell you what a rare pleasure it is, in Brussels, to hear from groups which want less state intervention. Economists call the phenomenon 'dispersed costs and concentrated gains'. People tend to notice the entitlements they get [...]

  • The most grotesque manifestation of the EAW to date

    Updated: 2012-03-20 15:41:10
    Home News News The most grotesque manifestation of the EAW to date News The most grotesque manifestation of the EAW to date 20 03 2012 15:41 webmaster 11 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP press release The arrest of Graham Mitchell is the most grotesque manifestation of the European Arrest Warrant EAW to . date In 1994 he was acquitted by a Portuguese Court after a high-profile trial which was recorded by the Panorama programme of assaulting a German tourist , Andre Jorling , who had been left paralysed from the waist down after falling off a 12-foot sea . wall Nearly twenty years later , Mr . Mitchell has been arrested on a European Arrest Warrant which apparently charges him with first degree murder , notwithstanding that Mr . Jorling is still alive . Other paperwork suggests that the

  • Why we must repeal the Climate Change Act

    Updated: 2012-03-20 10:58:13
    Home News News Why we must repeal the Climate Change Act News Why we must repeal the Climate Change Act 20 03 2012 10:58 webmaster 29 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP At a recent meeting someone thrust a small booklet into my hand . nbsp Entitled Reconsidering the Climate Change Act it summarised a presentation given on Feb 22nd this year in the House of Commons by the renowned atmospheric physicist Richard S . Lindzen of MIT . nbsp And it should be compulsory reading for policymakers , including that huge majority of MPs who voted for the Climate Change Act in October 2008 as an exceptionally early snow fell over London The booklet is published by the Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act The Climate Change Act is expected to cost the British economy an eye-watering 18

  • Robert Sturdy MEP supports call for freeze in Beer Tax

    Updated: 2012-03-20 08:15:17
    Tuesday, 20th March 2012 – Brussels – Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England,  has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to back Britain’s beer and pub sector by calling time on planned punitive tax increases in the Budget. The move follows new figures showing the huge impact brewing and pubs have on [...]

  • The alliance of free English-speaking peoples is an awesome force in the world

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:38:14
    Thanks to all the heroes of the Manning Centre and the wider movement: Cliff Fryers, Darrell Reid, Tasha Kheiriddin, Brian Lilley, Chuck Strahl, Manny Montenegrino, Brigitte Pellerin, Rick Anderson. Thanks, too, to the elected representatives who carry the conservative standard in the cold Dominion: Tony Clement, Jason Kenney, Kara Johnson, Scott Reid, Christy Clark, Tim Hudak [...]

  • If Britain Were Greece

    Updated: 2012-03-16 11:45:25
    Home News News If Britain Were Greece News If Britain Were Greece 16 03 2012 11:45 webmaster 93 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP Just watched an excellent comparitive piece on the BBC Website : If Britain were Greece The journalist has assimilated the facts and statistics of Greece's swinging austerity measures imposed by the Troika of the EU , IMF and ECB into a British . context Here's a summary : below Unemployment would have hit 7 . million Half of all young would be out of . work Minimum wage would be cut from 6.08 per hour to 4.74 per hour , or for under 18s , be reduced from 4.98 to 3.39 per . hour 100,000 public sector workers would be waiting redundancy with their salaries meanwhile cut by 40 1 million public sector workers would be sacked by 2015. All public sector

  • Andreasen: Cut UK contributions to EU budget by 10%

    Updated: 2012-03-16 11:13:02
    : Home News News Andreasen : Cut UK contributions to EU budget by 10 News Andreasen : Cut UK contributions to EU budget by 10 16 03 2012 11:13 webmaster 96 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds As the EU seeks millions more from taxpayers , let's cut UK contributions to the EU 2013 budget by 10 says UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen . By Marta Andreasen MEP VIDEO In Strasbourg 13.03.2012 we were debating the 2013 EU budget for the European Commission . The Commission has yet to produce its estimates , but like the European Parliament it is expected to ask for an inflationary increase of between just below two percent and three . percent The increase , being demanded by the European Parliament's top unelected civil servant in a proposal paper , nbsp will take European Parliament's spending to GB 1.5 billion at

  • Derek Clark`s Strasbourg Commentary: 12-15 March 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-16 00:36:19
    : Home News Add-ons Derek Clark`s Strasbourg Commentary : 12-15 March 2012 News Derek Clark`s Strasbourg Commentary : 12-15 March 2012 16 03 2012 12:36 webmaster 90 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Derek Clark MEP I can do no better than start with Nigel's speech in the style of Carry on up the Khyber It does in fact mirror the atmosphere . here Tuesday : We voted on two Gender Equality reports , all 70 amendments in one , 30 in the other . Basic idea worthy enough you may think but really , paragraph 7, Political Parties across Europe to introduce a quota system for Candidate lists- women candidates alternate with men at the top of the list Adopted by 573 101, and the whole report passed by 508 124. Wednesday : Vote on the Fisheries Fund , to which I spoke on Tuesday night This passed with a

  • EU Own Goal on Airline Emissions

    Updated: 2012-03-15 14:31:24
    Home News News EU Own Goal on Airline Emissions News EU Own Goal on Airline Emissions 15 03 2012 14:31 webmaster 13 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP In the escalating row over the EU's attempts to extend its Emissions Trading Scheme to non-EU airlines , China has now suspended aircraft orders worth 12 billion with Airbus , the EU's aircraft manufacturing company . nbsp Airbus estimates that 1000 jobs with the company , and another 1000 down the supply chain , are at risk . nbsp Airbus wings are built at Filton near Bristol , so this could cost UK . jobs A couple of weeks ago , I wrote to the Ambassador of China , with copies to other Ambassadors involved , congratulating them on their firm opposition to the EU's proposals . nbsp China has been the leading player in a

  • Interview with Robert Sturdy MEP on resolution to EU-USA Beef Wars

    Updated: 2012-03-15 08:50:44
    Wednesday 15th March 2012 – Robert Sturdy, East of England MEP and Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee talks to the Farmers Guardian on EU-USA trade dispute.

  • “Do you wanna take this outside?” – EP plans to take on European Council

    Updated: 2012-03-14 16:48:15
    The newly elected European Parliament President Martin Schulz announced in an interview that he is going to try to “put the European Parliament in a confrontation with the heads of government.” The reason behind this is that, in Mr Schulz’s view, the European Council is becoming more and more powerful, while the European Parliament’s role either [...]

  • New deal on finance tax may bring calm

    Updated: 2012-03-14 14:31:40
    A compromise may be in sight to defuse the conflict over a proposed EU turnover tax for all financial transactions. It seems that finance ministers are looking at stamp duty on share deals as an alternative way of taxing the financial sector, perhaps marking a calmer phase in the evolution of European financial services legislation. [...]

  • Empower consumers to reject child labour in cocoa production, East of England MEP says.

    Updated: 2012-03-14 14:02:11
    Strasbourg, 14th March 2012 — The labour of 215 million children worldwide is used in producing cocoa beans for chocolate, candles, pharmaceuticals and make up; and a better product labelling system is needed to empower consumers to vote against it with their wallets, Robert Sturdy MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists group international trade spokesman, said [...]

  • Welcome end to long-running “beef wars”

    Updated: 2012-03-14 13:34:00
    Wednesday, 14th March – Strasbourg – Conservative MEPs today welcomed the ending of a long-running food-trade war as a significant step forward in trans-Atlantic relations. The European Parliament sitting in Strasbourg voted to allow the importation of high-quality beef from the United States and Canada on a zero-duty tariff rate. The move is seen as [...]

  • Schengen – Always a Welcome Scapegoat

    Updated: 2012-03-13 16:18:04
    Handling the Euro-crisis demonstrates the unity of the continent, but when it comes to open borders and immigration, European leaders show a different face. No more queues and controls at the borders of European countries – Schengen makes it possible. For years, numerous holiday-makers and workers have been able to travel without barriers across the [...]

  • Determined Eurocrats Carry On Up The Khyber

    Updated: 2012-03-13 16:05:18
    Home News News Determined Eurocrats Carry On Up The Khyber News Determined Eurocrats Carry On Up The Khyber 13 03 2012 16:18 webmaster 9 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO Speaking today in Strasbourg during the debate on the Council meeting of the 1-2 March 2012, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said that the biggest bombshell is the German Finance Minister saying that nobody can exclude a third Greek . bailout This is a farcical situation , quot he added . And why is it happening That's what people in Europe want to . know Is this being done to help Greece No , it is going to crucify Greece . It is being done to prop up a failing project because you know that once Greece goes , others will go as well . quot Addressing Mr Barroso by name , he said , when leaders stand up and say that political

  • Nuttall: Women thrive on merit not patronising gender quotas

    Updated: 2012-03-13 15:22:49
    : Home News News Nuttall : Women thrive on merit not patronising gender quotas News Nuttall : Women thrive on merit not patronising gender quotas 13 03 2012 15:22 webmaster 48 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Related VIDEO Euro-Parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly today in Strasbourg to pass the Gender Equality . reports This legislation aims to tackle gender inequality in the EU and introduces gender quotas to boost the number of women on company boards and in political . bodies Speaking yesterday during the debate , UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall lauded former PM Margaret Thatcher and said quotas should have no place in a meritocracy . He said that discrimination was never positive . Paul Nuttall said : Your own figures show that the pay gap between men and women is still large . nbsp After all these

  • The Temptation of Protectionism

    Updated: 2012-03-13 08:31:10
    I think most French would agree that the presidential election debate has been pretty poor since its beginning in February. No nuances, small media stories turned into polemics, little content overall – all very frustrating for those who enjoy a decent confrontation of ideas on what matters for the country. If you missed the saga [...]

  • A look at the Syrian situation

    Updated: 2012-03-12 18:42:25
    Home News News A look at the Syrian situation News A look at the Syrian situation 12 03 2012 18:42 webmaster 39 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Above all the Arab nations Syria has a proud reputation on human rights . Sunnis , Shia , Alawite , Christian , Armenians , Jews , live and worship together in peace . The Syrian government has even been helping in the restoration of synagoges . Can you say the same for that darling of the USA and the UK , Saudi Arabia Since the US-led adventure in Iraq tens of thousands of Christian refugees from that country have found their way to Syria , where they have been looked after in family homes until their futures were sorted out and they could move on By Godfrey Bloom MEP Western media's disinformation about the Syrian Arab Republic is only likely to

  • UKIP public meeting draws a huge crowd

    Updated: 2012-03-12 00:05:17
    Home News News UKIP public meeting draws a huge crowd News UKIP public meeting draws a huge crowd 12 03 2012 12:05 webmaster 46 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The old parties simply can't attract large numbers to a political meeting , yet UKIP can . nbsp How do they do it Three reasons , I think By Roger Helmer MEP Last Thursday evening , freshly decanted off the Brussels plane , I drove to Saint Ives in Huntingdonshire not Cornwall , thankfully to a UKIP meeting . nbsp And I was . astonished Through my dozen years as a Conservative MEP , I was occasionally asked whether I held public meetings , and I had to explain that if I announced a public meeting , Joe Public would rather stay home and watch Coronation Street , and I'd probably end up with an empty hall , with two punters and a dog if I

  • Borrowing money to finance Franco-German military industrial complex

    Updated: 2012-03-09 18:13:35
    Home News News Borrowing money to finance Franco-German military industrial complex News Borrowing money to finance Franco-German military industrial complex 09 03 2012 18:13 webmaster 26 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Figures released by the European Council this week have shown that since the Greek bailouts began the Greek authorities have spent over a billion euros on French and German . weaponry Yet another reason why we must not increase by a single penny our contribution to the IMF bailout of Greece said Godfrey Bloom UKIP MEP for Yorkshire North . Lincolnshire These revelations have surfaced hard on the heels of details of massive planned future arms purchases by Greece , including 223 tanks and a . U-boat Britain should be helping Greece to get out of the euro and thus giving it a

  • Robert Sturdy becomes Real-Life Entrepreneur Champion

    Updated: 2012-03-07 17:22:23
                      Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England, has signed up to a national campaign by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and has become a Real-Life Entrepreneur Champion. Robert signed the FSB’s pledge at the recent Going Global Conference in Cambridge that Mr. Sturdy organised [...]

  • The Creation of an EU Police State

    Updated: 2012-03-07 14:25:44
    Home News News The Creation of an EU Police State News The Creation of an EU Police State 07 03 2012 14:25 webmaster 36 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Habeas Corpus and trial by jury are the supreme protection of ordinary people from the state . The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating a charge , or deny him the judgement by his peers , is the odious foundation of totalitarian governments Winston Churchill By Gerard Batten MEP Launched at UKIP's spring conference 03.03.2012 my new booklet Freedom , Security Justice Or the Creation of a European Union Police State is now available . In this I expose how an EU system of criminal law is being created that will supersede our own legal system and how it is already destroying our ancient freedoms and protections under

  • A week in the life of Marta Andreasen

    Updated: 2012-03-05 18:53:50
    Home News News A week in the life of Marta Andreasen News A week in the life of Marta Andreasen 05 03 2012 18:53 webmaster 36 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen PSEurope Seven Days series The MEP and former EU chief accountant laments the loss of old-fashioned party ideology , gives the Irish some friendly advice for their referendum on the fiscal stability treaty , and heads to UKIP's spring conference in Skegness Monday : I learn of the death of a friend in my constituency , also a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party . She was a real party stalwart , eager to help in all she could . I make last minute arrangements to be at her funeral on Wednesday . Lunch is for wimps so I pass on it and prepare for the multi-committee meeting with national parliamentarians in the

  • 2014: Making the next European elections truly European?

    Updated: 2012-03-05 14:05:53
    It’s hardly news anymore when we hear about voter apathy and declining turnout for European elections. So how do we make people care about a ballot that is usually seen as little more than a halftime show between general elections? One option is to make what’s at stake more important by, for example, not only [...]

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