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• Dining out on a budget
• The busy life of an EU trade commissioner
• Climate: UK toes the Brussels line as usual
• Germans get cold feet over climate targets
• Whose Irish eyes will be smiling?
• Lisbon: big guns trained on Ireland
• EU's new £2.5m propaganda drive in US
• Tories show their yellow side

Lisbon: big guns trained on Ireland

Tuesday, 21st October 2008

It seems the EU has called in its best legal brains to find a way for the Europhile Irish Taioseach Brian Cowen to persuade his people to vote again on the Lisbon/Constitutional Treaty…and this time to come up with the answer "Yes". The Republic famously gave the treaty the thumbs-down in... More

EU's new £2.5m propaganda drive in US

Thursday, 9th October 2008

Among the millions of pounds that the EU wastes each year, one item of expenditure that seems to have received little publicity is the £2.5 million Brussels will give to American universities over the next three years. More

Tories show their yellow side

Tuesday, 30th September 2008

In a decision that shocked the 500 delegates packed into a fringe venue at the Tory conference in Birmingham, the two leading Conservative Eurosceptic MEPs, Dan Hannan from the South East and Roger Helmer from the East Midlands, both failed to turn up to debate the European Union. More

No such word as 'No'?

Wednesday, 27th August 2008

It was, of course, President Sarkozy who suggested it first, but now an Irish minister is hinting that his recalcitrant countrymen might be offered a second chance to come up with the "right" answer on the Lisbon Treaty. More

Turkey back on the agenda

Wednesday, 20th August 2008

Stand by for renewed activity in Brussels over Turkey’s ambitions to join the EU. Things have been quiet recently because of the Turkish government’s reluctance or inability to introduce reforms that might smooth its path to membership. On 18 August, however, a government spokesman... More

What Brussels means by free trade

Wednesday, 20th August 2008

The protectionist trading policies of the EU are set to cause further dispute round the world as the United States, Japan and Taiwan insist that the World Trade Organisation take action against Brussels for its eccentric interpretation of agreements on the sale of technology products. More

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