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Friday, March 30, 2007

Crisis looming over Constitution?

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V interesting peice by Charles Grant from the CER on the German plans to bring back the Constitution and the deal that the British governmen...

All talk and no action

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As we've noted before EU government's refusal to stop spending tax payers money supporting business ventures in Iran - let alone a...

pro-euro astroturfing

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Get out there and get posting, say the Labour Movement for Europe. http://www.lme.org.uk/campaigns/online.htm Mark Mardell's blog seems ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

The topsy-turvy world of the EU

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At a seminar we held on Monday on EU trade policy one of the experts - Chris Stevens - said that dealing with the EU reminded him of the t...
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Plans to save pro-euro Conservative MEPs from members?

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Interesting snippet from Charles Moore's notes in today's Spectator: "Meanwhile, the Conservative party continues its devotion ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

When is an agreement not an agreement?

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A mole on the European Scrutiny Committee has just got in touch about a session that took place this afternoon: "One of the few influen...
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The EU's environmental failures

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Sorry for the lack of posting recently, we've been pretty busy . Neil's got a piece up on Conservative Home today on how the Govern...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

A blank cheque

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The EU - cockups from day one. Alan Little on the Today programme reveals that the six leaders of the EEC actually signed a blank bundle of...

A slow motion coup d'etat

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says Christopher Booker in the Mail. Mark Littlewood (formerly of Britain in Europe) seems to agree. On Newsnight he fessed up that we were...

Biased BBC online

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BBC Online's coverage of the EU's 50th anniversary has been absolutely extraordinary. They have missed a great opportunity to deal w...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Too much explanation

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The Government’s present strategy on Europe (other than praying that whole issue of the Constitution will somehow disappear) has largely f...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Terrorists: run in fear...

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...the EU has published a list of all the things it has done to fight terrorism since the Madrid bombs. Psychologically interesting that it...
Friday, March 16, 2007

With experts like these...

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As we've remarked before relations between Germany and Poland are a little strained at the moment. They're in the midst of a numbe...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

First pasta the post

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Once more into the breach... the Italian Government under Prodi are now calling for a return to first-past-the post-elections, introduced af...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

football

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The "EU fiftieth birthday" match against Man U is in danger of turning into some sort of metaphor. The "Europe XI" team...

Why is this happening?

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So often the media report events without mentioning their real causes. Take today's Times front page: Hundreds of thousands of men worki...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Hmmmmmm

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We hadn't realised that the plan for a 100% elected lords would involve having the "senate" (or whatever) elections on the sam...
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More Sarko madness

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We thought we'd seen it all when Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign team launched Disco Sarko . But now some Sarkonauts have taken it upon t...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Is the EU making war with Iran more likely (II)

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Just noticed some more worrying news from yesterday’s FT . Apparently Eon, Germany’s biggest importer of natural gas, is pursuing its first ...

Sarko shows his true colours (or does he?)

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Just in case anyone is still under the illusion that Nicolas Sarkozy is some sort of free-market crusader preparing to drag France (and the ...

Ethics for robots?

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This is one firmly for the 'etc' section of the blog. The Telegraph tells us that the "technology obsessed" South Koreans ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Gizzajob mister

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From the Herald - Mandelson is backing Cameron's "3G" agenda to the hilt... he just thinks that he needs to sign up to a new ...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Is the EU making war in Iran more likely?

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EU enthusiasts boast about the EU’s “soft power” – its ability to use its economic weight and influence to influence world events without ha...
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“British euros” enter circulation

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According to Eurocoins , “euro-collectors have been going wild”, for sets of "British Euros". Euros are also being sold for other ...

The great firewall of China

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Ever wondered if your blog is available in countries with heavy censorship? Now you can find out. Check out the Great Firewall of China to ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Witches cash in on EU grants

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From Ananova we hear that entrepreneurial Romanian witches - a recognised profession in the new member state - have expanded their operatio...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

EU trade policy: tariffs increasing, discriminating against developing countries

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The World Trade Organisation’s trade policy review for the EU was released yesterday. Today’s IHT has picked up on this, and summarises th...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Exposing the euro myths

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When confronted with statistics about the burden that EU regulation places on UK businesses and voluntary bodies (at the last count it was o...
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Serf points out some none-too-subtle threats.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Massive massive hypocrisy (part 187)

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No contradictions here: (1) The Commission proposes various new environmental laws, casually helping itself to new competences in criminal l...
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