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Three MEPs Investigate The EU’s Investigators
June 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Fraud and corruption in the European Union is the subject of a unique investigative visit by three MEPs to the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg on Monday 30 May.
They were invited by the former president, Mr Fabre Valles, following a provocative speech in the European Parliament last December by Ashley Mote, Independent MEP for South [...]
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More Than 80% of EU Spending Not Audited
June 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
More Than 80% of EU Spending Not Audited As Britain prepares to take up presidency of the European Union for the next six months, British MEP Ashley Mote has today called on the governments of the member states to act decisively to put a stop to EU fraud and corruption.
In a letter to the president [...]
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MEPs challenge Tony Blair on EU Constitution
June 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment
In the European parliament in Brussels today, two British MEPs, Roger Helmer (Con) and Ashley Mote (Ind) have challenged Tony Blair to his face to guarantee that no part of the failed EU Constitution is implemented “by stealth”.
Tony Blair was in Brussels as incoming President-in-Office of the European Council, as the UK takes up the [...]
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An Expert’s View of the EU’s Court of Auditors
June 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
At the end of May 2005, Ashley Mote MEP invited Christopher Arkell to join a group of three MEPs in a private visit to the EU’s Court of Auditors in Luxembourg. They spent several hours closely questioning several members of the Court, and senior staff.
Christopher Arkell has his own London-based practice advising major international companies, [...]
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An informal non-political cross-party group has been established by three members of the Budget Control Committee to co-ordinate their efforts to force higher standards of financial transparency on the European Union.
Paul van Buitenen (Netherlands), Hans-Peter Martin (Austria), and Ashley Mote (UK), call their initiative Platform for Transparency. Other MEPs including independents, and those from party [...]
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The Times, 10 June 05
June 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Sir
Why is it that people voting for the EU constitution in France and Holland were voting for it, while people voting against were voting against something else?
And had it been, say, Cyprus and Latvia who voted against, would we now be watching this unseemly spectacle of denial? Or would President Chirac have invoked [...]
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A new level of EU integration is being planned by Hampshire and West Sussex county councils, Southampton city council and the Isle of Wight council.
By agreeing to work with their opposite numbers on the French coast they have been offered extra European Union funding to implement the EU’s maritime policy in the English Channel. At [...]
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Estonia Joins the No Camp on EU Constitution
June 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Following the resounding No votes in France and Holland against the proposed EU Constitution, it is increasingly likely that Denmark, the Czech Republic, and Estonia will also reject it as well as the UK and Ireland – assuming they are allowed to vote.
Estonia joined the growing No camp after a visit by the EU constitutional [...]
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Monday 6 June 2005, one week after the French and Dutch rejected the proposed EU constitution
June 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Monday 6 June 2005, one week after the French and Dutch rejected the proposed EU constitution in referenda. This 26-second speech, made under the one-minute rule, was greeted with laughter and applause, and not just for its brevity.
“Mr President, on 28 April last year the President of France, Jacques Chirac, said ‘If a country votes [...]
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