Mar
30
Editor, The Times, 30 March 2005
March 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Sir
Please allow me to remind Mr Abbott (letters March 29) that the proposed EU constitution includes Article 18. By itself, that Article is capable of overturning any of Mr Abbott’s claimed checks and balances. It provides for unknown and unlimited future amendments to the constitution, and ratifies them in advance. Member states merely have to [...]
Mar
19
Editor, Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2005
March 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Sir
You report (18 March) the National Audit Office’s criticism of the 118 directory enquiries service but fail to mention that the change from the old BT 192 system was an EU decision. Nor did your report mention that all the other member states, including those that had not even joined at the time, were told [...]
Mar
17
March 17th : All UK’s Net Payments to EU Have Disappeared – And More
March 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
More than four times the UK’s net contribution of £75 billion to the European Union has been lost and remains unaccounted for. It is unlikely ever to be found.
Brussels’ new accounting system, which came into operation on 1st January 2005, is based on opening balances that have not been reconciled with closing balances on the [...]
Mar
15
Editor, Wall Street Journal, European Edition, Brussels
March 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
15 March 2005
Sir
You report Jose-Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, saying he wants reforms which will enable the EU to catch up with the US economy – even if it takes decades. It will take for ever.
There is a profound difference between the economies of continental Europe and the US, and no signs that [...]
Mar
14
The risk of collapse for many small companies and the loss of many hundreds of jobs in the British aviation industry may have been averted by the intervention of Ashley Mote MEP in a power struggle between the new European Aviation Safety Agency and the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority.
On 4 March 2005, at EASA’s new [...]
Mar
1
The Times 1st March 2005
March 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The Times
1 March 2005
Sir
William Rees-Mogg is right to argue (28 February) that the proposed EU constitution is part of an on-going process of European integration, despite Mr Hain’s silly remark about its being no more than a tidying up exercise. Earlier, the UK government’s white paper claimed that there would be “no fundamental changeâ€?. But [...]







