• [Ticker] Bundestag approves bailout fund, but more votes needed

    Updated: 2012-06-30 07:18:36
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  • [Ticker] German Parliament to oppose direct bank recapitalisation

    Updated: 2012-06-29 17:43:21
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  • [Analysis] EU summit deal leaves many questions open

    Updated: 2012-06-29 17:41:39
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  • [Focus] Acta unraveling as Netherlands joins nay-sayers

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:27:16
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  • EU breaks 30-year deadlock on joint patent

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:21:59
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  • [Ticker] EU leaders endorse opening Montenegro talks

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:15:42
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  • [Ticker] Romanian PM plagiarised his PhD, committee rules

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:14:56
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  • [Ticker] Group of EU states set to agree finance tax

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:11:26
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  • [Ticker] Eurozone appointment delayed by Merkel departure

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:41:59
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  • [Opinion] Are we heading for a 'half-Europe'?

    Updated: 2012-06-29 12:46:15
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  • Merkel under pressure over summit deal

    Updated: 2012-06-29 12:33:46
    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 Books 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 The Bundestag is due to vote on the treaty establishing the permanent bailout fund ESM at 5pm Berlin time Photo : consilium.europa.eu Merkel under pressure over summit deal 29.06.12 13:33 Related Germany stays tough on eurobonds ,

  • [Ticker] EU agrees to split patent court between London, Paris and Munich

    Updated: 2012-06-29 12:26:24
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  • [Ticker] Ireland gets promise for bailout revision

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:44:33
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  • [Ticker] Jean-Claude Juncker keeps eurogroup post

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:44:09
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  • [Ticker] Germany's unemployment rate increases

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:43:07
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  • [Ticker] Illegal EU market for body parts grows

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:41:40
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  • [Ticker] Euro and Asian shares spike

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:41:08
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  • [Ticker] EU business trips drop 11 percent

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:40:39
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  • Hollande: EU parliament may need to be altered

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:29:36
    : 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 Books 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 The European Parliament in future with MEPs and super euro MEPs Photo : European Parliament Hollande : EU parliament may need to be altered 29.06.12 09:29 Related Eurozone MEPs should have exclusive voting rights , French deputy

  • EU, US and Russia closer than before on Syria, diplomat says

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:28:00
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  • EU parliament reconsiders code of conduct loophole

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:27:30
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  • Italy and Spain get 'breakthrough' deal on bailout funds

    Updated: 2012-06-29 06:48:57
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  • [Ticker] Britain blocks patent deal

    Updated: 2012-06-29 02:37:33
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  • [Ticker] Eurozone leaders start discussing help for Italy and Spain

    Updated: 2012-06-29 00:28:58
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  • Italy and Spain hold EU growth pact hostage

    Updated: 2012-06-28 23:22:18
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  • OK, Mr Harbour. Here`s your answer

    Updated: 2012-06-28 12:17:00
    , . Home News News OK , Mr Harbour . Here`s your answer News OK , Mr Harbour . Here`s your answer 28 06 2012 11:17 webmaster 121 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Roger Helmer MEP For years , I've regularly quoted figures on the costs and benefits of our membership of the European Union . nbsp Not my figures , but those of former EU Commissioners Verheugen and . Mandelson Günther Verheugen , who was a Vice-President of the Commission and held the portfolio for industry and enterprise , estimated the total cost of regulation across the EU at 6 of GDP . nbsp This was some years ago , since when it can only have got worse , as the torrent of regulation continues . nbsp I've voted against a lot of it on the Unemployment . Committee Meantime , Peter Mandelson estimated the trade benefits of

  • We make up the law as we go along, admits Britain's new Euro-judge

    Updated: 2012-06-28 07:43:06
    Think of some of the more bizarre interpretations that have come out of the European Court of Human Rights. How does the ‘right to a family life’ allow illegal immigrants to defy deportation orders? How did ‘freedom of expression’ come to encompass pornography in prison cells? How does the prohibition of torture mean that a [...]

  • Besides everything else, our bankers are confused

    Updated: 2012-06-27 14:35:40
    , Home News News Besides everything else , our bankers are confused News Besides everything else , our bankers are confused 27 06 2012 13:35 webmaster 116 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Roger Helmer MEP It happens over and over : some important person goes to Number Ten clutching his notes in full view of the waiting press-men . nbsp Now it's happened again . nbsp The hapless victim this time was David Sands pictured CEO of Standard Chartered . nbsp And we can read his two key concerns First , he fears for the City if Britain leaves the EU which looks increasingly likely And second , he's worried about the remuneration proposals in CRD4 an EU Directive . nbsp The same article reports the concerns of the PM and the banking industry about the EU's proposal for a banking union , which could

  • Conservative International Trade Spokesman Hails EU Trade Charge.

    Updated: 2012-06-27 01:36:13
    Brussels, 27th June 2012  – Yesterday, three major trade announcements were hailed by the European Commission in Brussels.   First to come of the press was the announcement that the EU had signed an ambitious and comprehensive Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru. Once the agreement is fully implemented, it has been estimated that this [...]

  • The euro crisis, cognitive dissonance, and proof that Germans have a sense of humour

    Updated: 2012-06-26 15:12:21
    It looks like denial. Greeks want the euro, but not the austerity it requires. Germans want the euro but not the tax-rises it demands. In fact, what we're seeing is a form of cognitive dissonance. From the first, the euro was aggressively promoted as a way to boost growth. Indeed, the most surreal thing about [...]

  • The EU in a nutshell

    Updated: 2012-06-25 19:58:04
    I have no idea how people will vote when the In/Out referendum comes, but I’ve noticed one thing: whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers – our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, [...]

  • Fossil fuels to last for centuries

    Updated: 2012-06-25 15:43:36
    Home News News Fossil fuels to last for centuries News Fossil fuels to last for centuries 25 06 2012 14:43 webmaster 245 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Roger Helmer MEP On Friday , I was privileged to visit the British Geological Survey , at Keyworth in Nottinghamshire . nbsp My main interests were to get a clear understanding of the potential for shale gas in the UK , and also to understand better the availability of suitable UK sites for long-term geological storage of nuclear . waste On shale gas , the answer seems to be that we simply don't yet know the scale of commercially exploitable shale gas , though it may be considerable . nbsp So it is wrong to regard shale gas as Britain's get-out-of-jail card to solve our energy crisis . nbsp But it is also wrong for Ed Davey to talk down the

  • Rio +20 boost for EU fisheries policy reform?

    Updated: 2012-06-24 20:00:59
    The word “sustainability” can cover a multitude of interpretations, but when it comes to fisheries policy there is no ambiguity:  today’s overfishing means tomorrow’s collapsing fish stocks. Until recently the Common Fisheries Policy has been a classic case of unsustainability, a stand-off between short term political pressures on the one hand and scientific evidence warning [...]

  • Farage: EU is about to impose extreme repression

    Updated: 2012-06-24 16:06:52
    : Home News News Farage : EU is about to impose extreme repression News Farage : EU is about to impose extreme repression 24 06 2012 15:06 webmaster 2841 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds KWN interviews Nigel Farage AUDIO What we may see at the upcoming European Council meeting 28-29 June 2012 is a desperate EU beginning to put in place capital controls towards establishing a debt union' that can only be held together through repression , Nigel Farage told KWN , June 22. Asked whether they will be able to hold the euro together , Farage said : There were many people that thought communism would fall many years before it did because it was such a total failure . nbsp But they managed , through repression , to keep the whole thing together . nbsp What you may see is a very desperate European Union

  • Politics, money, corruption and lobbying

    Updated: 2012-06-24 01:44:34
    , , Home News News Politics , money , corruption and lobbying News Politics , money , corruption and lobbying 24 06 2012 12:44 webmaster 314 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Politics , big businesses , the media and now charities are hand in glove corrupting institutions and ensuring the truth is kept from most . citizens Click for image source Lobby Planet by Godfrey Bloom MEP PS Europe There has been a rather bizarre development in the ancient craft of lobbying , an expression first born into American politics over 100 years ago at the Washington Willard Hotel . Congressmen and senators who foregathered there were pounced on by industry and commercial professional representatives . An amendment here , a tweak there where there is legislation there is a pecuniary interest for someone . Politics

  • After l'affaire Jimmy Carr, Left and Right should agree on flatter, fairer, simpler taxes

    Updated: 2012-06-23 12:09:25
    In a speech to Politeia in 2004, Oliver Letwin, then Shadow Chancellor, made a simple but brilliant observation. The complexity of a nation’s tax system, he said, was every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall level of tax. It’s true. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to [...]

  • The new EU Airports Package proposals – In discussion with Brian Simpson MEP

    Updated: 2012-06-22 15:56:08
    In the first of a series of interviews with EU policy experts and decision makers, Brian Simpson the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee exchanges with Grayling’s Kevin Doran on the Airports Package that is currently being reviewed at the Europoean Parliament. Filed under: Uncategorized

  • An EU referendum is coming, but when and on what terms?

    Updated: 2012-06-21 21:42:51
    An EU referendum is starting to look inevitable. As the great Finkelstein put it the other day: The question of whether there will be, or should be, a referendum on our continued membership and the terms of that membership is the hottest topic in politics. Too late. We’ve already made that decision. There will be [...]

  • Can Julian Assange escape the European Arrest Warrant?

    Updated: 2012-06-21 20:10:51
    Home News News Can Julian Assange escape the European Arrest Warrant News Can Julian Assange escape the European Arrest Warrant 21 06 2012 19:10 webmaster 347 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds If the Ecuadorian government awards the WikiLeaks founder diplomatic status and enables him to leave Britain , he will be the only person who has ever outwitted a European Arrest Warrant by Gerard Batten MEP PS Europe The latest twist in the Julian Assange story did not entirely surprise me . Last year , I discussed his appeal with him . Having been involved with a number of European Arrest Warrant cases I was not confident he stood much chance of winning . To my knowledge , not a single EAW request for a British citizen has been refused by the courts . Indeed , United Kingdom courts have no real power to

  • EU Referendum: UKIP must push aside the Tories

    Updated: 2012-06-21 18:10:48
    : Home News News EU Referendum : UKIP must push aside the Tories News EU Referendum : UKIP must push aside the Tories 21 06 2012 17:10 webmaster 216 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Our conservative allies' may not have the strength to change our relationship with the EU but we do By Marta Andreasen MEP Daily Mail In a recent Economist blog piece a regular columnist suggested that UKIP does not need to win a single House of Commons seat at the next general election to have an outsized impact . The party just needs to threaten , credibly , to siphon off enough Conservative votes to deny David Cameron's party victory in a decisive number of seats . 039 I want to put paid to this notion that UKIP has nothing to offer other than being a pressure group seeking to lurch Mr Cameron and his inner circle

  • INTA committee rejects ACTA

    Updated: 2012-06-21 14:22:50
    Home News News INTA committee rejects ACTA News INTA committee rejects ACTA 21 06 2012 13:22 webmaster 164 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The INTA International Trade Committee's final vote on David Martin's S recommendation that the European Parliament reject ACTA was approved today with 19 votes in favour and 12 against . There were no . abstentions This means that INTA Committee's recommendation to the European Parliament is to reject ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement at the July 4 plenary vote in Strasbourg . UKIP MEP for England South West , and INTA committee member , William Dartmouth voted to approve the Martin recommendation , thereby supporting the recommendation to reject ACTA immediately and not wait for the European Court of Justice to weigh in on the . matter Meanwhile ,

  • New research exposes Green lobbying `corruption`

    Updated: 2012-06-20 18:56:12
    Home News News New research exposes Green lobbying corruption` News New research exposes Green lobbying corruption` 20 06 2012 17:56 webmaster 215 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds A new Taxpayers' Alliance report exposes the true depth to which the EU and Green lobbyists exist on taxpayer . subsidies The report , EU Taxpayer Funded Environmentalism PDF has shown that environmental NGOs and lobbying organisations are being funded by the EU to the tune of tens of . millions UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom , said today , It doesn't matter who you vote for environmentalism is the European Union's official political . doctrine With this free money , green political activists such as Friends of the Earth have been able to lobby MEPs and political representatives throughout Europe and the rest of the world ,

  • Report on visit to Council of Europe

    Updated: 2012-06-20 17:50:44
    Home News News Report on visit to Council of Europe News Report on visit to Council of Europe 20 06 2012 16:50 webmaster 188 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds A joint informal body of MEPs and Council of Europe CoE parliamentarians met in Paris , June 19 to discuss the CoE Committee of Ministers' decision last week to resume talks on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights ECHR UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew attended the . meeting By Stuart Agnew MEP Long before the UK was a member of the EU , it was a member of the Council of Europe COE which now has 47 participating countries . No country can join the EU without first being a member of the COE . This is the institution that oversees the administration of The European Court of Human Rights and no country is allowed to be a member of the

  • Greece`s only hope is to go back to the drachma

    Updated: 2012-06-19 17:20:07
    Home News News Greece`s only hope is to go back to the drachma News Greece`s only hope is to go back to the drachma 19 06 2012 16:20 webmaster 318 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Nigel Farage MEP Evening Standard Markets are already on the slide , after a brief surge following the Greek election results . New Democracy may have won 129 seats out of 300 but actually the majority of people did not vote for a pro-bailout party . The conservatives won only 29.7 per cent of the . vote Pro- or anti-bailout , there is an illness affecting the Greek political class which they are in danger of passing onto the voters . For it is not just the MPs and parties who are suffering from Stockholm syndrome , yearning to be kept safe in the economic prison created by the EU . Even the anti-bailout parties are

  • Greek Crisis takes EU Leaders one step closer to a European Banking Union

    Updated: 2012-06-19 16:52:33
    The latest Grayling BigPictureBrussels explains that: Two mainstream parties in Greece managed to achieve a majority in the weekend’s elections and are likely to form a government of national unity to press ahead with the terms of the country’s bailout. A Greek default has however not been ruled out. Earlier this month, the European Commission [...]

  • Nelson Mandela and the greatest book our species has produced

    Updated: 2012-06-19 15:48:48
    The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in [...]

  • The eurocrisis: Politics without policy choice

    Updated: 2012-06-19 11:49:33
    This piece on Crooked Timber really is superb. A few highlights – but do read it in full: “the fuzzy compromise between supposedly depoliticized trans-national rules (run by the ECB), and national-level responsibility for compliance, is now increasingly problematic. Countries … Continue reading →

  • Reinforcing failure

    Updated: 2012-06-19 11:26:18
    Home News News Reinforcing failure News Reinforcing failure 19 06 2012 10:26 webmaster 273 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds what the EU does best The EU's carbon price has crashed from 17 to 7 click to enlarge by Roger Helmer MEP Last night I went , with my doughty assistant Alexandra Swann , to a dinner-debate on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme ETS or as they say in the USA , Cap'n'Trade . nbsp We had an industry spokesman telling us that the ETS system was failing to deliver on its key objective , and needed radical reform . nbsp Otherwise , he warned , we might end up with a carbon . tax But he was very bullish about the prospects for a global Cap'n'Trade system , presenting a very optimistic map showing putative Cap'n'Trade systems in most countries in the . world I think he

  • Nigel Farage meets with Czech President Vaclav Klaus

    Updated: 2012-06-18 22:42:33
    Home News News Nigel Farage meets with Czech President Vaclav Klaus News Nigel Farage meets with Czech President Vaclav Klaus 18 06 2012 21:42 webmaster 154 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Nigel Farage paid a visit to the President of the Czech Republic today , his first official meeting with a Head of State as Leader of . UKIP Nigel's meeting with President Vaclav Klaus , a committed Eurosceptic , was held at Prague Castle and later the discussions were described as fruitful and productive Speaking to the Czech press after the meeting , Mr Farage praised Klaus as the sole European head of state who takes a truly eurosceptic stance . He said their discussion centred on their concerns that Europe uses every crisis as a pretext to take away another piece of democracy from its members . President

  • The FP Twitterati 100 – including me, it seems…

    Updated: 2012-06-18 22:18:29
    I appear to have been listed among prestigious company in Foreign Policy magazine’s Twitterati Top 100. I’m rather flattered, it must be said – not least because Foreign Policy’s been rather good of late. In fact, I have a draft … Continue reading →

  • Now the EU wants to get its hands on Britain's oil and gas

    Updated: 2012-06-18 17:21:23
    You might think that, what with everything that's going on in Spain and Greece, Eurocrats had plenty on their plates. You'd be wrong. The EU's cupidity is unsleeping, for all that its recent initiatives have been driven from our news pages by the travails of the eurozone. You almost certainly haven't read anything about the [...]

  • Roger Helmer: Greece can’t deliver on austerity

    Updated: 2012-06-18 11:55:54
    : Home News News Roger Helmer : Greece can’t deliver on austerity News Roger Helmer : Greece can’t deliver on austerity 18 06 2012 10:55 webmaster 317 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Responding to the Greek election result East Midlands UKIP MEP Roger Helmer has warned that Greece can't deliver . nbsp Let's be clear he says . nbsp The Greeks have voted by a narrow margin to endorse a commitment which they are totally unable to fulfil . nbsp Greece is in a debt spiral . nbsp The Greek economy is shrinking . nbsp Tax revenues are in free fall . nbsp The economic plans approved by the EU and insisted on by Germany are simply undeliverable Mr . Helmer believes that the immediate euphoria in financial markets at the Greek result will be short-lived , like the response to last week's Spanish bail-out

  • Talking straight

    Updated: 2012-06-18 11:03:01
    Frankly speaking, there’s an incredible amount of nonsense that gets written in Brussels. Whether you call it ‘Brussels English’, ‘Eurobabble’ or ‘EU speak’, the big problem with using jargon in your writing is that it’s incomprehensible and confusing. And if your writing is incomprehensible and confusing the chances are it won’t be read, and is [...]

  • Greece wants the euro but doesn't want the austerity. How much longer can this go on?

    Updated: 2012-06-17 20:30:52
    Supporters of the euro, in Athens and in Brussels, have been quick to proclaim victory. Greek Euro-enthusiasts congratulated their countrymen on their level-headedness, while EU officials indicated that the country might be rewarded with a slight relaxation of the bailout terms. Yet there is something contrived, rehearsed even, about the triumphalism. Look, after all, at [...]

  • Incredible! Good news in the Sunday Papers!

    Updated: 2012-06-17 17:43:41
    Home News News Incredible Good news in the Sunday Papers News Incredible Good news in the Sunday Papers 17 06 2012 16:43 webmaster 228 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Roger Helmer MEP I can't remember when I saw such good news on one day . nbsp Of course , first of all you've got to get past the routine but accelerating bad news of the uro crisis . nbsp One of the papers compares Greece to Icarus of Greek legend flying so close to the sun that his wings melt . nbsp But the crisis and I write as the Greeks vote has resonances of that legendary Greek troika : hubris nemesis . catharsis Hubris at the proud launch of the single currency , set to dominate the world we were told Nemesis upon us now , as the climax of the crisis approaches . nbsp Catharsis delayed until the single currency project

  • Godfrey Bloom: Scrap the British Ministry of Defence

    Updated: 2012-06-16 01:57:40
    : Home News News Godfrey Bloom : Scrap the British Ministry of Defence News Godfrey Bloom : Scrap the British Ministry of Defence 16 06 2012 12:57 webmaster 205 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The MoD is not able to reform , it must go , and should be replaced by a procurement agency taking its briefing as directly as possible from the Chiefs of . Staff by Godfrey Bloom PSEurope National defence is very much like the annual insurance premium on the family house . Most folk rarely claim , houses rarely burn down or have their entire contents stripped by burglars . However , it is the responsibility of the head of household to ensure the premium is paid . So it is with defence , the state's primary responsibility defence of the realm . In recent years , this fundamental priority has shifted .

  • Debt is the problem, not the solution

    Updated: 2012-06-15 21:32:00
    So we're going to 'inject £140 billion into the economy,' are we? Wow. Who knew it was that easy? Why not inject £280 billion and be twice as rich? Why not a trillion? I can't believe I keep having to write this, but we got into this mess in the first place because there was [...]

  • MEPs vote for another ten wasteful years

    Updated: 2012-06-14 15:41:04
    Home News News MEPs vote for another ten wasteful years News MEPs vote for another ten wasteful years 14 06 2012 14:41 webmaster 289 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Marta Andreasen MEP This blog piece will be slightly longer than usual because over the last couple of days in Strasbourg the European Parliament has been debating and voting in favour of two hugely significant proposals that fundamentally alter how the EU raises . money I'm talking about the eurozone two pack' proposals designed to deal with constant surveillance and assessment at EU level of member state budgets , and own resources' , shorthand for tax raising powers , including the controversial Financial Transaction . Tax First let's deal with the two pack' : These proposals are a classic case of too little and too late and

  • A rare non-hyperbolic take on the likelihood of a Grexit

    Updated: 2012-06-14 12:57:44
    Good stuff from European economics think tank Bruegel: “Commentators, especially from North America, take it for granted that Greece will exit the euro area and will be followed by others… But is a Greek exit really inevitable? “…If we look … Continue reading →

  • New answers to an old question: the EU’s influence in member states

    Updated: 2012-06-14 01:19:04
    This blog’s most popular post ever remains one from June 2009 on the percentage of laws that come from the EU. It’s won me an award and been quoted in numerous follow-up studies, including one by the House of Commons … Continue reading →

  • The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness

    Updated: 2012-06-13 16:21:23
    Home News News The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness News The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness 13 06 2012 15:21 webmaster 654 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg and sadly there simply aren't enough life boats . quot Speaking in Strasbourg today , UKIP leader Nigel Farage outlined why the bailout of Spanish banks will seriously aggravate the euro crisis . A hundred billion euros is put up for the Spanish banking system , and 20 of that money has to come from Italy , quot he told Euro-parliamentarians . And under the deal the Italians have to lend to the Spanish banks at 3 but to get that money they have to borrow on the markets at 7 It's genius isn't it It really is brilliant So what we are doing with this package is we are actually driving countries like

  • Cameron `best federalist outside eurozone` says federalist leader

    Updated: 2012-06-13 16:02:45
    Home News News Cameron best federalist outside eurozone` says federalist leader News Cameron best federalist outside eurozone` says federalist leader 13 06 2012 15:02 webmaster 444 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO A prominent MEP and former Prime Minister of Belgium , speaking in the European parliament in Strasbourg today , has described Prime Minister David Cameron as the best federalist outside the eurozone Committed EU federalist Guy Verhofstadt MEP is the leader of the Liberal Group ALDE in the parliament and had been speaking on the results of the recent European Council meeting , calling for more fiscal and political union in the . eurozone East Midlands UKIP MEP Roger Helmer used the Blue Card intervention to put a question to Mr . . Verhofstadt You say we need a comprehensive

  • Women in Power – State of Play

    Updated: 2012-06-13 09:59:44
    On June 12 2012, Caroline Wunnerlich, Managing Director of Fleishman-Hillard in Brussels, was invited to bring her European expertise to a panel discussion on improving the gender balance on corporate boards in the UK and across Europe. The discussion was hosted by the British organisation ‘The 30% Club’, a group of Chairmen voluntarily committed to [...]

  • Treating the EU & G20 leaders like naughty schoolchildren

    Updated: 2012-06-12 21:45:25
    Excellent teacherly putdown in this post from thinktank Bruegel’s blog: “Europe has already expressed its intention to focus [the upcoming G20 summit] on growth and jobs; the deliverable should foreseeably be yet another ‘plan’ without specific deadlines or commitments, along … Continue reading →

  • An American view of Europe the UK would be sensible to note

    Updated: 2012-06-12 19:58:43
    Once again, no one knows what’s going to happen – yet everyone knows it’s going to be bad. This from The Atlantic makes some good points amidst the “eurogeddon” worst-case scenario act – but this time from an American perspective, … Continue reading →

  • A terrifying but promising sign

    Updated: 2012-06-11 20:04:47
    Oh, sure, it sounds terrifying at first: “European finance officials have discussed limiting the size of withdrawals from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing euro zone capital controls as a worst-case scenario should Athens decide to leave the euro” … Continue reading →

  • How can the EU win the people’s trust?

    Updated: 2012-06-11 19:51:38
    Former Spanish foreign minister Ana Palacio raises some important points: “few official pronouncements, let alone policies, are addressing Europe’s deficit of trust and credibility. The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe’s … Continue reading →

  • Welcome to my club

    Updated: 2012-06-11 19:05:39
    Home News News Welcome to my club News Welcome to my club 11 06 2012 18:05 webmaster 285 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by John Bufton MEP How easy it is to jump onto the bandwagon of popular . opinion For years , UKIP have been labelled everything from fanatically anti-European to xenophobic for holding the view that the European Union was bad for Britain . As recently as a couple of years ago , throughout the early months of my tenure as an MEP , I received accusations of scaremongering if ever I suggested the Eurozone was doomed . Those critics have fallen strangely silent of . late Now politicians from across the political spectrum are championing a British exit from the EU , warning of the dire economic consequences of prolonging the single currency without fiscal unanimity and bandying

  • Eurozone crisis challenges UK role in Europe

    Updated: 2012-06-10 14:52:34
    Britain is buzzing with talk of a referendum on “Europe”. In May Peter Mandelson was advocating a national vote some time after 2016, when a new Europe of fiscal union will have been defined. He sees it as a way of resolving divisions within Britain’s political parties. Last week it was David Owen’s turn. He [...]

  • The eurocrisis as a continental-scale game of chicken

    Updated: 2012-06-09 11:38:51
    Good pessimistic (realistic?) piece from Der Spiegel: “The next stage in the crisis will be blatant blackmail. With their refusal to accept money from the bailout fund to recapitalize their banks, the Spanish are not far from causing the entire … Continue reading →

  • Eurozone is turned into a State as indebted nations collapse

    Updated: 2012-06-08 12:10:04
    Home News News Eurozone is turned into a State as indebted nations collapse News Eurozone is turned into a State as indebted nations collapse 08 06 2012 11:10 webmaster 523 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds KWN interviews Nigel Farage AUDIO If one looks globally , we've got people like David Cameron , and importantly , President Obama , who are basically saying , The euro project must be saved . nbsp It must be saved at all costs . rsquo For that to happen the Eurozone has to turn into a state , and a state that effectively has a Fed , rdquo UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP said in an interview with KWN , June 7. When I look into the eyes of the leaders of Europe . what I'm seeing now is madness , absolute , total and utter madness : the project , the idea is what must be protected and to hell with

  • OK, Brussels, let's make a deal!

    Updated: 2012-06-07 15:05:38
    , , Home News News OK , Brussels , let's make a deal News OK , Brussels , let's make a deal 07 06 2012 14:05 webmaster 359 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Roger Helmer MEP There's an interesting situation shaping up in the . EU For months now , Angela Merkel has been coming under increasing pressure to mutualise debt in the eurozone . nbsp Mutualise debt sounds innocent and technical , but in plain terms it means Germany agreeing to underwrite everyone else . nbsp Not surprisingly , German voters don't relish that idea and on the face of it , the German Constitution doesn't allow . it Yet it goes to the heart of the uro problem . nbsp A single currency can't survive without a lender of last resort . nbsp In the end , that lender can only be Germany or the ECB backed by . Germany Merkel is

  • Big Brussels is watching you

    Updated: 2012-06-07 14:22:09
    Home News News Big Brussels is watching you News Big Brussels is watching you 07 06 2012 13:22 webmaster 237 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Stuart Agnew MEP Legislation that will force Internet companies ISPs to install thousands of pieces of hardware to enable GCHQ , the Government's eavesdropping centre , to scrutinise on demand' every phone call made , every text message and email sent and each website accessed , in real time , is in preparation . The Communications Data Bill , which confirms these proposals , was included in the Queen's speech to open the new session of . Parliament Predictably , there was a huge fuss made in the media when these proposals were first announced , earlier this year . nbsp The Government was accused of wanting to snoop on ordinary peoples' communications .

  • East of England MEP pushes Agricultural Commissioner on Sugar Reform

    Updated: 2012-06-07 09:51:26
    Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England, has written to Commissioner Ciolos to urge him to avoid the shambles of the previous EU Sugar Regime reform. In the letter Mr. Sturdy wrote of the significance of the sugar beet industry to the East of England: “My constituency in the East of England is traditionally [...]

  • Sturdy welcomes report lifting lid on protectionism

    Updated: 2012-06-07 01:32:28
    Brussels, 7th June 2012 – Senior Conservative MEP Robert Sturdy today welcomed an EU report highlighting rampant protectionism and restrictive practice across the globe. Mr Sturdy, Conservative spokesman on international trade, called for renewed efforts to bring down barriers to commerce. He was responding to a report which identified a staggering increase in protectionism around [...]

  • Osborne wants an EU referendum. Maybe.

    Updated: 2012-06-05 12:26:12
    . . Home News News Osborne wants an EU referendum . . Maybe News Osborne wants an EU referendum . . Maybe 05 06 2012 11:26 webmaster 89 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Is Uncle Cable still smiling By Roger Helmer MEP OK . nbsp So it's out in the open . nbsp Semi-official . nbsp George Osborne wants an EU referendum . nbsp Clarke , Clegg and Cable must be choking on their . pasties The first thing to note is the reported reason why Osborne wants an EU referendum . nbsp It's not because he believes in it although he may It's because Osborne , ever the tactician , is worried about UKIP And this is a remarkable success for UKIP . nbsp Not only did we scare the daylights out of the old parties in the 2009 euro-elections we've now pressured the Tories into buying one of our key policies . nbsp For

  • Oil, banks and democracy - a potent blend

    Updated: 2012-06-04 15:23:47
    , Home News News Oil , banks and democracy a potent blend News Oil , banks and democracy a potent blend 04 06 2012 14:23 webmaster 6 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds John Bufton MEP Oil carries with it so many . connotations The social , moral and geo-political implications create a quagmire as opague and viscous as the crude substance . itself When Ghana discovered oil off its coast line a few years ago there was a sharp intake of breath . Everyone saw what had happened in Nigeria . The Government were not prepared to fall into the same trap , creating a feral landscape where natives and multi-nationals go head to head over the black stuff , where misery is wrought across borders such as in Sudan , and where corrupt governmental allegiances and illegal wars exacerbate religious and ethnic

  • Draghi's mantra: More centralised EU control

    Updated: 2012-06-04 14:31:44
    : Home News News Draghi's mantra : More centralised EU control News Draghi's mantra : More centralised EU control 04 06 2012 13:31 webmaster 306 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds by Marta Andreasen MEP VIDEO On Friday in the European Parliament I had the opportunity to question Mario Draghi the president of the ESRB European Systemic Risk Board who also happens to be the president of the European Central Bank , about the banking . crisis I specifically asked about the continued use of stress tests when we are having daily surprises from banks in eurozone . states I also attacked the bailing out of banks with taxpayers money . Why should the public pay for private debt His response was as always : More central control and supervision is needed . More centralisation and yet more . centralisation

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