The Housing Market is a Bubble, it’s just the size that varies with time!
The Council of the European Union authorised the European Commission to negotiate a broad partnership agreement for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and Russia. …read more
Posts Tagged ‘european union’
European Union to negotiate a Nuclear Partnership with Russia
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Spain Takes The Reins
Friday, January 1st, 2010BRUSSELS – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, takes over today the rotating six-month EU presidency. He will inherit more than the usual catalogue of economic and foreign policy challenges. As Spain expects to play a leading role in pushing forward a new 10-year European Union plan for jobs, economic growth and innovation they will have to tread a careful path, …read more
EU bureaucrats to get 3.7% pay rise
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Just when workers across the EU are losing their jobs, having their pay frozen or maybe even taking a pay cut just to keep their jobs, the EU Bureaucrats are to receive a nice little pay rise of 3.7% next year. The new President of the EU Council, the Belgium Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, is expecting a cool £320,000 a year salary as it is. This pay deal could add as much as £40m to the £1bn European Commission wage bill. The average inflation across the EU now stands at 0.5%. …read more
The EU President is chosen
Friday, November 20th, 2009
The president was chosen and appointed, not by us but by back room negotiations. This is a political position, not a private company post so it should be done in a much more open way than this. Rompuy came out within the last few weeks as a runner and Baroness Ashton within the last few days. Once the UK had dropped Blair as its ‘preferred’ candidate for the presidency we were allowed to have Ashton in the senior foreign policy position. …read more
Choosing a President of the EU Council of Ministers
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Watching this process reminds me of the dark days of the cold war. Very quickly after the Second World War a whole new industry was formed around the ‘Kremlin Watchers’. These people would try to peer over the wall and through the wire into the hearts and minds of those running that weird amalgam called the USSR.
They would monitor speeches, analyse photographs and question Soviet officials all to discover who was in and who was out. That would then give them a hint as to which way the Russian and satellite political game was running. …read more
Ten Years On – Britain Without The European Union
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Hot off the press today – well through my letterbox – is a new publication by the campaigning group The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA). Dr Lee Rotherham tries to look back from the year 2020, with a fictitious historian’s eye, on how the United Kingdom would have coped had we left the EU in the year 2010.
The book is divided into a number of chapters looking at how withdrawal from the EU would have affected a number of groups including business owners, their workforce, fishermen, farmers and consumers. …read more
Man tipped as EU’s first president raises the prospect of EU wide taxes
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009The Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rimpuy, is the new front-runner for the EU presidency and wants the EU to start raising taxes in its own right. He made the comments at a meeting near Brussels of the secretive Bilderberg group, where top politicians, business people and bankers get together. The EU President of the European Council will be chosen on Thursday 19th Nov. Tony Blair is still in with a chance. …read more
Tony Blair hangs on to hopes of EU presidency
Monday, November 9th, 2009Tony Blair has in the past insisted that he is not campaigning for the post of EU president. But, according to the Times, is has emerged that he has made a succession of calls to European leaders to try and resuscitate his flagging attempt to take this flagship post. Tony Blair will be in the Far East continuing his job as peace envoy while all the European leaders are together at the Brandenburg Gate celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. …read more
Cameron plays the long game with Tory EU policy
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Cameron has made the vow that never again would powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without the consent of the people. This has drawn predictable fire from Europe with the French Minister for Europe, Pierre Lellouche, claiming that the Conservatives will ‘castrate’ UK influence in the EU and that their plan is ‘pathetic’. …read more
Cameron says yes to the Lisbon Treaty
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
David Cameron has caved in to Europe and will announce that there will be no referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The Czech courts have ruled today that the Lisbon Treaty is constitutional and then, once Vaclav Klaus has signed it, all 27 states will have ratified the Treaty and it will become part of EU law. …read more
The EU plan to ban all shop refunds
Monday, November 2nd, 2009According to an Express scare story, the EU have plans to ‘harmonise’ retail in the EU by preventing UK shops from offering refunds should the customer feel the goods do not meet their expectations or needs. This practice has been around for about 100 years and has given solid consumer protection, keeping retailers on their toes. Lola Bello, senior policy advocate for Consumer Focus is not particularly happy about these proposals. …read more
