Posts Tagged ‘the eu’

Euro survival: it’s all up to the Greeks for now

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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Economic power bid by EU President

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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UK to sell Dover to France

Monday, February 8th, 2010

One could be forgiven for checking the calendar when reading a headline like this just to make sure it isn’t April 1st. It isn’t. In a reversal of Britain’s two century ownership of Calais from 1347 onwards, …read more

The EU and Euro in crisis, but too big to fail

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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MPs anger over Turkey joining the EU

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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Why we should never give up our national sovereignty on taxation to the EU

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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Kraft Foods cleared to buy Cadbury

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

BRUSSELS -The European Commission has now cleared the way for the take-over of Cadbury by the U.S company Kraft Foods Inc by the way of public offer after the commission concluded that the deal would not impede competition anywhere in Europe.

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Gordon gives more taxpayers’ money away

Friday, December 11th, 2009

In a move he called ‘doing the right thing’ Gordon Brown had pledged a total of £1.5 billion to the EU to fight climate change. This is 23% of the total of £6.5 billion announced by the EU. Initially the UK had agreed to match French and German contributions of £1.2 billion, but at the last minute the Prime Minister gave another £300 million more in a move to encourage others to increase their commitments. …read more

Climate Change: A Security Challenge

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

BRUSSELS - Global warming, threatens to accentuate existing threats and risks in the developing world as well as in industrialised countries. It is the leading reason for developing security policies around the globe. The civil-military stabilisation of distant conflicts is a matter of high importance for the security of Europe.

Europe’s environmental outlook for the 21st century is bleak. A report by the European Environment Agency, is predicting that the European continent would suffer more from global warming than other parts of the world. …read more

Mother kills self, baby and unborn child over benefits

Friday, December 4th, 2009

On June 13th this year a young French woman of 32 living in Britain threw herself off a balcony killing herself, her unborn child and her baby son. The reason? Her benefits had been withdrawn and there was no immediate prospect of having them reinstated. The story in yesterday’s Express is a depressing one.

Whatever your views of benefit claimants and the status of those from within or outside the EU claiming benefits in this country, …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 reality of our position in the EU may now be dawning on people

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Gordon Brown now stands accused of sacrificing a powerful economic post in the EU in order to place Baroness Ashton in the Foreign Policy post to upset the Tories. The worry is that the French politician Michel Barnier will become the next internal market commissioner next month. This post oversees EU financial regulation and M. Barnier is a defender of French protectionism and is against the free market model.

This has put the wind up the big boys in the City. Their view is that this will mean the imposition of stiff new EU regulations on their operations, which will adversely affect profits. William Hague has said that M. Barnier is a serious concern to us and a threat to the economic issues that affect Britain the most. …read more