• [Ticker] France and Italy want unlimited firepower for bailout fund

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:04:28
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  • [Ticker] Germany unmoved by US calls for bond-buying

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:03:16
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  • ECB chief under scrutiny for alleged conflict of interests

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:35:31
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  • [Ticker] Syria's top UK diplomat resigns

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:23:16
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  • [Ticker] Blair: Catastrophe to give up the euro

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:22:04
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  • [Ticker] Indonesia launches first-ever WTO case against EU

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:21:37
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  • [Ticker] EU blocks treaty on books for blind

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:21:15
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  • [Ticker] Romania PM chides Hungary PM on referendum

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:20:26
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  • [Ticker] Creatives dislike Spanish copyright proposal

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:19:52
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  • [Ticker] US hosts anti-EU carbon tax meeting

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:19:05
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  • There are better reasons to be patriotic than the Olympics

    Updated: 2012-07-30 18:40:33
    The first few days of the Olympics have been accompanied by a clutch of articles about how British patriotism has been rehabilitated, the Union flag reclaimed and so forth. Really? Reclaimed from whom? Other than in the imagination of a tiny metropolitan elite, when was it ever ceded? I mean, if the flag became associated [...]

  • Hackers stole Van Rompuy's emails

    Updated: 2012-07-30 17:13:40
    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 Van Rompuy : among 11 senior EU officials stung by the operation Photo : consilium.europa.eu Hackers stole Van Rompuy's emails 30.07.12 18:13 Related Cyber criminals steal millions from EU banks Hackers dump EU staff passwords and

  • [Ticker] Germany and Italy publish pro-euro promise

    Updated: 2012-07-30 09:05:41
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  • [Ticker] Tourists shunning Greece

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:48:13
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  • [Ticker] Russia defies EU sanctions on Syria

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:47:23
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  • [Ticker] Former Milosevic strongman becomes Serbian prime minister

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:46:58
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  • [Ticker] London mayor favoured to lead Tory party

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:45:08
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  • Euro-saving operations due within 'days,' says Juncker

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:28:43
    , 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 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 We have come to a crucial point . There is no more time to lose , quot Juncker said Photo : consilium.europa.eu Euro-saving operations due within days , 039 says Juncker 30.07.12 09:28 Related ECB chief indicates upcoming help

  • [Focus] Amid crisis, Europeans flock to learn Chinese

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:27:22
    , 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 Eurozone Equality LGBTI Rights Innovation Belarus Creative Industries Regions Cities Education China-EU Relations Focus Amid crisis , Europeans flock to learn Chinese 30.07.12 09:27 Related China-EU trade war looms over solar energy industry English most studied language in EU schools EU sees dramatic surge in investment from China By

  • Romanian President: 'I survived a coup'

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:26:44
    : 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 Basescu : hostile banners are still seen in the centre of Bucharest after more than 80 percent of voters said he should go Photo : consilium.europa.eu Romanian President : I survived a coup' 30.07.12 09:26 Related Romanians

  • Time to treat farmers fairly on milk prices

    Updated: 2012-07-30 00:23:32
    Home News News Time to treat farmers fairly on milk prices News Time to treat farmers fairly on milk prices 29 07 2012 23:23 webmaster 31 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds A long-term solution to the dispute over milk prices in the United Kingdom would be for the country to free itself from the Common Agricultural Policy by leaving the EU but in the meantime wholesalers and retailers should treat farmers fairly , argues UKIP MEP Stuart . Agnew By Stuart Agnew MEP PSEurope Britain's dairy sector has long been very different from the rest of Europe . From the moment railways began bringing it into the country's growing industrial towns and cities , the British began consuming fresh milk . Out of this grew the doorstep delivery system which put fresh milk on Britain's breakfast . This milk was

  • Romanians prepare for divisive referendum

    Updated: 2012-07-29 08:20:02
    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 Banner urging Romanians to oust President Traian Basescu from office because he stole' their wages Photo : Valentina Pop Romanians prepare for divisive referendum 29.07.12 09:20 Related EU commission still very worried' about

  • For once, the EU has got it right

    Updated: 2012-07-28 18:17:04
    When I blogged about the attempted putsch in Romania last week, I got several comments along the lines of 'Some Eurosceptic you are, Hannan, poking your nose into another country's business!' Well, chaps, it gets worse: with the European Parliament in recess, I spent most of the week in Bucharest campaigning for the rule of [...]

  • China-EU trade war looms over solar energy industry

    Updated: 2012-07-28 08:22:51
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  • [Ticker] Germany and France pledge to maintain eurozone 'integrity'

    Updated: 2012-07-27 16:08:52
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  • [Ticker] Majority of French want referendum on fiscal treaty

    Updated: 2012-07-27 10:02:37
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  • Five transformative years for Europe

    Updated: 2012-07-26 12:28:16
    At last the sun is shining, after months of rain. London gears up for the Olympics and is thronged with visitors. Brussels is quiet, Paris is empty. The roads to the south are crowded. The mountains and the beaches beckon. It must be the summer holidays. But not for those politicians and officials across Europe [...]

  • Britain Unleashed: ten ideas to revive our economy

    Updated: 2012-07-25 11:04:48
    1. Make taxes lower, simpler and flatter. Every minute spent wrestling with a tax return is a minute taken off work. Every penny spent on accountants' fees is a penny passed on to customers. The current system suits the super-rich, whose experts are adept at finding its folds and pockets; but it’s a disaster for [...]

  • Your starter for 10: life as a EU public affairs consultant

    Updated: 2012-07-25 01:55:25
    Some would call it a life sentence. Others would call it a vocation. Many would argue I need more than an annual summer vacation. It’s been 10 years this August since I left the European Parliament (and working for someone I miss on a daily basis) and joined Fleishman-Hillard. Here are ten reasons why I’ve [...]

  • Fresh Start? Or old promises re-heated?

    Updated: 2012-07-24 23:43:22
    Home News News Fresh Start Or old promises re-heated News Fresh Start Or old promises re-heated 24 07 2012 22:43 webmaster 129 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Roger Helmer contrasts two studies . While Options for Change by the Fresh Start Group , was a great disappointment Global Vision's Britain and Europe : a new relationship is wonderfully succinct and clear it goes through the options for Britain and the benefits of independence with fascinating cogency . quot Source : Britain and Europe : a new relationship PDF By Roger Helmer MEP Travelling home from Brussels on the train this week , I had the opportunity to read two interesting but contrasting documents , each with considerable involvement from Conservative . MPs One was from the Fresh Start Group , of 100+ Conservative MPs , led by

  • Commons census: the Dutch and the British

    Updated: 2012-07-23 18:35:07
    : Home News News Commons census : the Dutch and the British News Commons census : the Dutch and the British 23 07 2012 17:35 webmaster 255 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds view source By John Bufton MEP Figures released today 17.07.2012 from the latest conducted census have shown a population increase of at least 3.7 million in England and . Wales Fifty five percent of that increase was fuelled by immigration between 2001 and 2011 a jaw dropping 2.1 . million The rest is due to rising birth rates and increasing life span . However , immigration has also played a part here , with higher average birth rates attributed to foreign born couples . One in four babies now born in the UK has a non-UK born . Mum England is now the third most densely populated place in the EU , after Malta and the

  • Cameron and EU referendum

    Updated: 2012-07-23 18:07:00
    Home News News Cameron and EU referendum News Cameron and EU referendum 23 07 2012 17:07 webmaster 181 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Gerard Batten MEP Brussels Strasbourg Bulletin PDF HERE David Cameron recently wrote an article in which he said that the words EU and referendum could go together' although it seems not in any meaningful . way On 2nd July in Strasbourg I gave the following speech in response . David Cameron has suggested there might be a referendum on the European Union . But he doesn't know when , or what the question should be . He only knows the question will not be : should Britain leave the EU He says this is because he doesn't know what the EU will look like in the future . But we all know don't we . Those of us here on both sides of the argument know exactly that it

  • Stuart Agnew backs militant farmers in dairy dispute

    Updated: 2012-07-23 17:49:56
    Home News News Stuart Agnew backs militant farmers in dairy dispute News Stuart Agnew backs militant farmers in dairy dispute 23 07 2012 16:49 webmaster 214 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The agriculture spokesman for the UK Independence Party , Stuart Agnew MEP who himself farms in the East of England , has spoken out in support of dairy farmers who are protesting against cuts in milk . prices Mr Agnew said : nbsp Having served for nine years on the NFU council , I am well aware of how difficult it is to persuade farmers to demonstrate in significant numbers . The fact that they are doing so now underlines the desperate situation in which so many dairy farmers find themselves . nbsp Asda and Morrisons cannot ignore the fact that the immense damage currently being done to their reputations by

  • So, Euro-enthusiasts: still worried about Britain missing the train?

    Updated: 2012-07-20 17:20:15
    Maybe it's all this talk of spending more money on rail infrastructure , or maybe it's my mounting irritation over the preposterous HS2 scheme, but I have train metaphors on the brain. Brussels has risen for the summer, and Eurocrats and MEPs are heading off to the citrus groves of the Mediterranean, but markets don't [...]

  • Under David Cameron and the Conservatives, Britain will never leave the EU

    Updated: 2012-07-20 01:12:58
    , Home News News Under David Cameron and the Conservatives , Britain will never leave the EU News Under David Cameron and the Conservatives , Britain will never leave the EU 20 07 2012 00:12 webmaster 500 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Nigel Farage MEP Daily Mail Yesterday 18.07.2012 before jetting off to Afghanistan to cry crocodile tears over our ill-treated servicemen and women , David Cameron gave an interview with the Daily Telegraph . This was done in concert with a piece penned , by David Lidington , the Europe Minister , in a range of European . broadsheets The Government has brought us a restatement of its European Policy . It is simple , and something that everyone in the country should take a moment to digest . Under David Cameron and the Conservatives , Britain will never leave

  • The EU is becoming less economically important by the hour

    Updated: 2012-07-19 14:51:16
    Measure it how you will, the UK is now selling less to the EU than to the rest of the world. On the raw data, sales to the EU now account for 49.6 per cent of our total exports: the first time this has happened since our trade was artificially redirected by the phased imposition [...]

  • 3.5 Million Jobs: Nailing the Lie

    Updated: 2012-07-19 01:50:55
    : Home News News 3.5 Million Jobs : Nailing the Lie News 3.5 Million Jobs : Nailing the Lie 19 07 2012 12:50 webmaster 319 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP It has well been said that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on . nbsp The 3 2 Million Jobs lie has been reverberating around the body politic for more than ten years , and no matter how many times it's rebutted , it refuses to go away . nbsp So let's try . again Of course the reason the lie refuses to go away is that the pro-EU political faction has no valid case to make , so is obliged to lie . nbsp On the face of it , 3 2 Million Jobs depend on EU membership sounds plausible , and is likely to be fairly alarming to voters who hear it constantly and lack the knowledge to see through .

  • Romania is sliding unremarked into despotism

    Updated: 2012-07-18 14:55:29
    It started with the cuts. In January, Romania became the fourth EU country (after Greece, Italy and the Netherlands) to see its government fall over Brussels-imposed austerity measures. Romania has a largely parliamentary system. The president, however, does have important non-ceremonial powers, especially when it comes to the formation of new administrations. President Traian Băsescu, [...]

  • Where are the children?

    Updated: 2012-07-17 17:30:10
    Comment on the census data has tended to focus on sheer numbers, and you can see why. Few Britons, least of all my Home Counties constituents, need official data to tell them that they are overcrowded. They have to get up earlier and earlier to drive to work; if they take the train, they pay higher [...]

  • Robert Sturdy writes in New Europe

    Updated: 2012-07-17 14:06:48
    Brussels, 17th July 2012 – Robert was asked by the editors of New Europe to provide an article to mark the one year anniversary of the implementation of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. The article was part of an EU Trade and Investment special edition.

  • Can Conservatives win on Europe?

    Updated: 2012-07-17 06:18:22
    I'll be discussing the question on Friday evening in Woking with (according to Tatler)  'the most powerful man in British politics': Times columnist, founder of ConservativeHome and all-round superstar Tim Montgomerie. Readers will be familiar with the principled case for an In/Out referendum. For what it's worth, though, there's also a tactical one. Whichever of [...]

  • Nigel Farage delivers challenge to Downing Street

    Updated: 2012-07-16 20:53:38
    Home News News Nigel Farage delivers challenge to Downing Street News Nigel Farage delivers challenge to Downing Street 16 07 2012 19:53 webmaster 580 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP UKIP Leader Nigel Farage hand-delivered a letter to Downing Street today , challenging the Prime Minister to a public debate over Britain's relationship with the . EU Arriving at the Whitehall entrance to Downing Street in a large poster van displaying the message The EU is a fraud on ALL Europeans pictured and accompanied by UKIP members Sanya-Jeet Thandi , Lucy Bostick and Russell Hicks , Mr Farage said his offer of an open and honest debate was . genuine The letter : reads Dear Prime , Minister As you are well aware , the last time the people of this country were given a say on membership of the European

  • Let`s challenge the Little Europeans

    Updated: 2012-07-16 18:24:04
    Home News News Let`s challenge the Little Europeans News Let`s challenge the Little Europeans 16 07 2012 17:24 webmaster 497 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP Now that there's talk of an EU referendum in the wind , we've seen the usual crop of uro-apologists telling us that outside the EU , Britain would be like Norway or Switzerland Indeed I was once engaged in a public debate with a Europhile who declared that Britain would be like Puerto Rico Just for the record , the UK population is some sixteen times that of Puerto Rico , and our UK GDP is twenty-five times that of Puerto Rico which , by the way , is an unincorporated territory of the USA don't ask The UK is currently the world's seventh largest economy by GDP . nbsp Puerto Rico doesn't feature independently in the lists

  • The Economics of Wind Power

    Updated: 2012-07-15 18:09:47
    Home News News The Economics of Wind Power News The Economics of Wind Power 15 07 2012 17:09 webmaster 423 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Memorandum submitted by Roger Helmer MEP to the Energy and Climate Change Committee Commons 1.1 Democratic deficit top-down policy-making . There has been little public debate about UK energy policy of any consequence . The previous government and present coalition have sought to champion the issue of climate change on the global stage , and pushed for stronger EU and domestic targets and for a global agreement . This green political consensus has deprived the public of the opportunity to hear dissenting opinion , and has sidelined individuals who have criticised climate and renewable energy . policies 1.2 Proper scrutiny of the economics of wind power is

  • You can smell the fear in Barroso`s nostrils

    Updated: 2012-07-12 19:16:32
    Home News News You can smell the fear in Barroso`s nostrils News You can smell the fear in Barroso`s nostrils 12 07 2012 18:16 webmaster 696 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Nigel Farage Huffington Post UK Jose Manuel Barroso , the President of the European Commission's interview in today's New Statesman is a master class in delusional vapouring . He is terrified by the markets , which today have dealt another under the plimsoll line blow to Spain , he is horrified by the future , and worse , he is mortified by the possibility of democracy in action . His , and his colleagues in Brussels actions when the former Greek PM suggested a referendum Papandreou was out of the job with the week spoke . volumes However the really depressing thing about his comments about the place of Britain in the

  • EU audit does not go far enough

    Updated: 2012-07-12 19:04:39
    Home News News EU audit does not go far enough News EU audit does not go far enough 12 07 2012 18:04 webmaster 348 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP William Hague has today launched a so-called audit into our relationship with the European Union , for which he should be applauded . But , said Nigel Farage , the UKIP leader , we must be vigilant about how it is done and the scope that it . has Mr Farage said : An authoritative study into the relationship between the UK and the EU is long overdue . However these plans do not go nearly far enough . It would have been perfectly simple for the Government to have taken up Lord Pearson's idea set out in his Cost Benefit Analysis Bill from last . year Instead it is set to create an enquiry that will report back just in time for the European

  • Farage: Give us a fair referendum on EU membership

    Updated: 2012-07-12 17:17:14
    : Home News News Farage : Give us a fair referendum on EU membership News Farage : Give us a fair referendum on EU membership 12 07 2012 16:17 webmaster 660 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The UK should withdraw from the EU and become a sole trader on the global stage , rather than being tied to a failing Europe' writes UKIP leader By Nigel Farage MEP PSEurope British Prime Minister David Cameron's next trick will be telling the people of the United Kingdom he needs a chance to renegotiate and make a deal with the European Union . Renegotiation is an option but not a solution . The British people deserve a true choice in a straight in out referendum . Cameron does not want them to have one in case citizens do not give him the answer he wants , which is to stay in the EU . But only after a no'

  • Clean Tech — Dirty Mining

    Updated: 2012-07-12 14:46:53
    Home News News Clean Tech Dirty Mining News Clean Tech Dirty Mining 12 07 2012 13:46 webmaster 410 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP This morning I attended a Raw Materials breakfast in Brussels , expecting bauxite and crude oil although we got the usual croissants and coffee . nbsp The briefing dealt with Rare Earths a seemingly arcane subject , but one that lies at the heart of much green technology including , especially , the magnets you find in both electric vehicles and wind . turbines I was astonished to learn that large wind turbines contain around 600 kgs of rare earths per megawatt so a 2 MW turbine has over a ton . nbsp How long till the metal thieves notice the opportunity , I wonder Two problems . nbsp First of all , the Chinese seem to have a virtual monopoly on

  • Miliband on Banking

    Updated: 2012-07-11 22:47:51
    Home News News Miliband on Banking News Miliband on Banking 11 07 2012 21:47 webmaster 1055 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Godfrey Bloom MEP I listened carefully to Ed Milliband's dissertation on banking . I learned much he confirmed without any doubt , he does not understand what has gone wrong with banking . No more of course than the coalition government . The collapse has been caused by the fractional reserve banking system where banks can lend money which does not exist on a mammoth scale to fuel asset bubbles doomed to bust . A central bank is basically an arm of government which encourages this behaviour . When the money eventually runs out , central banks , at the behest of the Treasury , electronically print yet more money , compounding the problem even more . This is nothing to do

  • East of England MEP hails £3.2 million funding boost to Ely Station

    Updated: 2012-07-11 11:21:29
    Brussels, Wednesday 11th July 2012 – Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England, welcomed news that Ely Station has been recommended by the European Commission for financial support for its TEN-T project. The project, which was praised by the Commission for its strong positive local impact, involves the construction of two 775m freight loops [...]

  • Robert Sturdy hails Russian State Duma support for WTO Membership

    Updated: 2012-07-11 11:20:04
    Brussels, 11th July 2012  – News that the State Duma, Russia’s lower house, has ratified Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation was warmly welcomed by Robert Sturdy, Conservative MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee. Tuesday’s vote removes one of the final obstacles to theRussian Federationjoining the WTO as its [...]

  • Farage: We won`t get fooled again, PM

    Updated: 2012-07-10 14:51:03
    : , Home News News Farage : We won`t get fooled again , PM News Farage : We won`t get fooled again , PM 10 07 2012 13:51 webmaster 597 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The public is running out of patience with David Cameron over his dawdling on Europe and UK Independence Party chief Nigel Farage is backing The Sun's call for a referendum . A Sun on Sunday survey found 67 per cent want a vote on whether the UK stays in the European Union . Here , UKIP leader Mr Farage explains why that referendum cannot come soon . enough By Nigel Farage MEP The Sun Back in 1971, a couple of years before we joined the Common Market as the EU was called then The Who wrote that great song Won't Get Fooled Again . nbsp But in the past 40 years we've been fooled time and time again . We were told our membership of

  • Banking Union: magic solution to eurozone crisis?

    Updated: 2012-07-10 14:19:43
    It seems that a European Banking Union has become the magic solution to the eurozone debt crisis. This week’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels confirmed that European funds will provide direct support to Spanish banks, to the tune of €100bn in loans from the European Financial Stability Facility and subsequently the European Stability [...]

  • Farage: Europe is unraveling and headed for collapse

    Updated: 2012-07-09 20:14:55
    : Home News News Farage : Europe is unraveling and headed for collapse News Farage : Europe is unraveling and headed for collapse 09 07 2012 19:14 webmaster 626 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds AUDIO King World News KWN UKIP leader Nigel Farage gave King World News an extraordinary interview 07.07.2012 Farage told KWN , As we speak we're doing this interview live the Spanish 10-Year bonds are trading back over 7 again . nbsp Nothing has been solved . rdquo But the other point that I was making this week was that this bailout fund , this European Stability Mechanism , which is supposed to have firepower of up to 700 billion euros it doesn't actually exist . nbsp It's imaginary . rdquo We had this summit two weeks ago . nbsp The usual sort of thing , all sorts of horse trading going on right into

  • UKIP Breakthrough in Wales

    Updated: 2012-07-09 17:32:48
    Home News News UKIP Breakthrough in Wales News UKIP Breakthrough in Wales 09 07 2012 16:32 webmaster 315 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP UKIP could make dramatic gains in forthcoming Welsh elections according to a YouGov poll commissioned by ITV Wales The prediction that UKIP could gain 5 seats , putting the party on equal footing with the Conservatives , is based upon a dramatic shift in Regional List voting where UKIP ranks as the third party , on 12 of the . vote The results of this poll are encouraging , but they tell us what we already know . As a party we are going from strength to strength . Voters are waking up to the fact that we are a credible alternative to the establishment parties who time and again let down the . people For too long , too few parties have

  • A week in the life of Godfrey Bloom

    Updated: 2012-07-09 15:39:03
    Home News News A week in the life of Godfrey Bloom News A week in the life of Godfrey Bloom 09 07 2012 14:39 webmaster 226 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The United Kingdom Independence Party MEP does not enjoy his regular trip to Strasbourg who does for the European Parliament's plenary session but returning home to bacon and real ale lifts his mood Godfrey Bloom MEP PSE Seven Days series Monday is the day I have to start my trek to Strasbourg when the European Parliament moves there lock , stock and barrel to keep the French happy . Remember , the entire European Union project is for the personal benefit of the French , who have written Strasbourg into the Treaty of Rome . The annual cost of this monthly expedition is estimated at 200m and the Strasbourg parliament cost just under 1bn . As a

  • Post-Council, what next for the eurocrisis?

    Updated: 2012-07-09 09:42:44
    (Sorry for blogging silence – I’ve been asked to write a book on the eurocrisis and European integration, so have been deep in research working out if I understand the current situation enough to do so.) It’s been a bit … Continue reading →

  • The time will never be right for David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU

    Updated: 2012-07-06 21:56:25
    Home News News The time will never be right for David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU News The time will never be right for David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU 06 07 2012 20:56 webmaster 409 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The Prime Minister should explain why Britain can't vote on continued membership of the failing European Union By Nigel Farage The Telegraph I have had enough of being told that we will have an EU referendum when the time is right The time has come for a real debate : I challenge the Prime Minister to debate with me why he will not give us a say on our relationship with the European . Union Anyone following David Cameron's recent twists and turns on the EU could be forgiven for feeling dizzy . At one time , there was a cast-iron guarantee of a referendum .

  • UKIP point to LibLabCon hypocrisy on ACTA

    Updated: 2012-07-04 16:08:50
    Home News News UKIP point to LibLabCon hypocrisy on ACTA News UKIP point to LibLabCon hypocrisy on ACTA 04 07 2012 15:08 webmaster 371 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Related VIDEO The Three Establishment parties in the UK were accused of hypocrisy over ACTA by UKIP today for allowing the international treaty to pass through Westminster committees in 2011 saying they were of no political or legal importance . In the European Parliament today , all UKIP MEPs voted the ACTA proposal . down The European Commission however said it would wait for the ECJ judgement on the matter and return with new proposals in the . future Member of the Civil Liberties committee , UKIP MEP Gerard Batten said today , UKIP are in favour of internet freedom and against the criminalisation of offences in ACTA under

  • Farage: You have lost all credibility, Mr Van Rompuy

    Updated: 2012-07-03 21:08:59
    : , Home News News Farage : You have lost all credibility , Mr Van Rompuy News Farage : You have lost all credibility , Mr Van Rompuy 03 07 2012 20:08 webmaster 451 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds VIDEO UKIP leader Nigel Farage today welcomed to the European Parliament the return of European Council president Herman Van Rompuy , who had missed recent plenary . sessions It is lovely to see you , Mr Van Rompuy . You've not been here for many months , quot Mr Farage said . The last time you were here , you told us we had turned the corner , that the worst of the crisis was over , and with every one of your predictions it goes on getting . worse I'm sorry Sir , you don't have the presence , the credibility or the standing for the International markets to believe that you can provide a solution .

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