No time for a novice Trade Commissioner

Wednesday, 22nd October 2008

Since Peter Mandelson's departure from Brussels, and from the post of the EU's Trade Commissioner, our media have been full of stories about his links to the very rich and powerful.  None of this was any surprise to me, seeing that, three years ago, my letter to him requesting that he disclose... More

Crisis management Brussels-style

Wednesday, 22nd October 2008

It was bound to happen. There is nothing the Eurocracy likes better than a crisis, because it offers Brussels another excuse for increasing its centralising powers. More

The EU's worrying approach to the financial crisis

Wednesday, 15th October 2008

Brussels: We're here in the midst of the financial crisis to find out how the European Commission and all these other terribly important and competent people are going to save us from whatever mistakes have been made in the past and prevent them from happening in future. More

Hear Nigel Farage speak

Monday, 13th October 2008

24 Oct, 7:30pm: UKIP Public Meeting, East Devon, West Hill Village Hall, EX11 1UQ. Contact John Kelly 01395 276 130 More

Floreat Etona!

Thursday, 9th October 2008

The opportunity to address the Political Society at Eton College was an event I had been looking forward to for some time. More

Now it really turns nasty

Wednesday, 1st October 2008

The recent trend in Brussels has been to rubbish everything and everyone opposed to their beloved Lisbon Treaty. This week they sank to new depths. More

What Monsieur le Président wants...

Thursday, 11th September 2008

An unusual invitation arrived in the middle of last week: le Président de la République Sarkozy invited the heads of the EU assembly's political groups to lunch at the Elysée Palace. More

Iceland and the EU illusion

Wednesday, 27th August 2008

When the invitation to visit Iceland arrived on my desk I jumped at it. Not only would I meet Heimssyn, the movement opposed to Iceland’s joining the EU, but as everyone knows my interest in fishing has not been dampened and what an opportunity Iceland would give me to find out about life... More

Sarkozy sparkles

Friday, 11th July 2008

Not since Tony Blair in 2005 has the incoming six-month EU president been met with such excitement. In many ways the situation is the same, with a recent referendum having delivered an emphatic NO and the EU in crisis. President Sarkozy’s speech to the European Parliament was delivered... More

The long arm of European 'justice'

Sunday, 6th July 2008

As I mentioned during Any Questions on Radio 4 on Friday, the extradition hearing of Andrew Symeou, a 19-year-old from London who faces deportation to Greece, is taking place in London on Monday 7 July. This is taking place as a result of the European Arrest Warrant and no British court has looked... More

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