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Monday, June 29, 2009

McCreevy to spend his summer reading Lisbon

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Charlie McCreevy is an honest man. As well as putting his foot in it by saying that 95% of the rest of Europe would have voted against the L...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Ireland you are not alone

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Following calls from several corners in Germany for more referendums on EU issues, and with the German Constitutional Court due to rule on t...
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Seeing sense

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This editorial in the Wall Street Journal today is so spot on we are copying and pasting the whole thing here. It takes up some of the same ...

City of Europe

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This week the IHT reported that the EU had recruited French architect Christian de Portzamparc "to devise a comprehensive, 15-year pla...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Busted

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Oh dear - the new 'Generation Yes' campaign in Ireland has fallen at its first hurdle. Its 'Fight the Lies' page states: ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Promotion for trying to kill the opt-out?

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PA reports that Labour MEP for the North East of England Stephen Hughes has been made Vice-President of the Party of European Socialists th...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Brown reiterates Lisbon remains unchanged

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According to PA, Gordon Brown today confirmed in Parliament that the 'guarantees' given to Ireland would "clarify but not chang...
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Very, very worrying

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A headline in the Irish Independent this morning cheerfully tells us: "Cowen says he has now read the full text of Treaty" Well d...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Ni plus ni moins

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Further evidence that the Irish will be voting on exactly the same text of the Lisbon Treaty that they have already rejected comes from Fren...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Cowen, you leave with nothing

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The conclusions of the EU summit have finally arrived. Despite a whole year of promising to respect the Irish no vote, EU leaders have decid...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Round 2 kicks off

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While EU leaders meet today to discuss how to best pretend that they are going to present a different Treaty to the Irish a second time arou...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Euro election results reflect... views on Europe

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There's loads of interesting stuff in this new YouGov poll for Channel 4. 32,268 people were polled online between 29th May and 4th Ju...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

With hindsight

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Back in April, we urged our supporters to write to their MPs (again) to ask them what they made of comments made by veteran Labour MP Alice...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Better fall into line, Glenys

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It's a good job that Lady Kinnock was not Europe Minister this time last year when the Government was falling over itself to persuade us...

Kinnock's life as a European

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Check out this blatent example of EU propaganda, found on the website of our New Europe Minister Glenys Kinnock ( or is she ?) "My lif...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Slowly does it...

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It's 11pm and there's still barely any results from the UK elections to the European Parliament. Other countries, including France, ...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Glenys steps up

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Amid the Cabinet reshuffle, we learn the Europe Minister Caroline Flint has resigned, after failing to be promoted to Health Secretary, a po...
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The worst of both worlds

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It seems like Germany has broken with the principle of independent central banking, apparently fed up by the policies of the European Centra...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Netherlands publishes results of EU elections

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While the UK won't publish the results of the European elections until Sunday, in the Netherlands, where the elections have also been he...

Why can't the Gov be this candid about Lisbon?

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Lib Dem MEP Andrew Duff has candidly told the Economist : “Whenever I am in a national parliament, I have the impression they are rather dem...
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Where are EPAs going wrong?

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With the European elections, and the ongoing expenses furore, discussions about policy have not been number one on anyone's agenda of la...

MEPs cost taxpayers five times more than UK MPs

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Amid the ongoing 'expenses scandal', and on the day of elections to the European Parliament, we've published a comparison betwee...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

The EU: An unlikely life coach

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Just stumbled across this ITV ad for the Europa propaganda Diary, which the European Commission has been distributing to schools throughout...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

A golden opportunity

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In a very welcome move, the Conservatives have today unveiled a new Bill paving the way for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Sound familia...

A very leaky defence

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On the Guardian's Comment is Free site, Dermot Scott, the Head of UK Office at the European Parliament, has today responded to an artic...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

From the horse's mouth

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For those unable to believe the sheer scale and size of the allowances and expenses available to MEPs, Swedish Left Party MEP Jens Holm prov...
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Proof that EU referendums are good

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Very interesting that a new poll of all EU countries, commissioned by the European Parliament, shows that turnout in the European elections ...

The real expenses scandal is in Brussels

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See here for our take: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/27/expenses-meps-european-parliament
Thursday, May 21, 2009

MEPs and their expenses - the facts

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Over the weekend Open Europe published a new 'league table' of all 785 MEPs, ranking them on 20 different criteria, including how t...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Say what?

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This is from yesterday's debate in the House of Commons on the Lisbon Treaty. The Conservative MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford, David Ev...
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