Sep
29
Editor, Financial Times, 29 September 2005
September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Sir,
Your report (September 29) about the EU’s current sense of crisis rightly drew attention to the fact that it was not being helped by failure to agree a new seven-year budget.
However your report omitted to mention that the EU enjoys massive annual cash surpluses which were supposed to be returned to the member states. [...]
Sep
21
Local MEP Condemns European Parliament’s Contempt for Voters
September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Independent MEP for the south-east of England, Ashley Mote, today condemned “the utter contempt Brussels has for the people who pay for the EU and every five years supposedly send MEPs to look after their interests”.
Mr Mote’s comments came after the speaker of the European Parliament, Spanish socialist Josep Borrell Fontelles, compared the EU to [...]







