May
15
Legal position of the proposed EU Constitution
May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Letter to The President of the Council of Ministers, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 10 May 2007
Questions addressed to the Council of Ministers about the apparent legal problems which have arisen in Germany over the EU Constitution have been answered (after a delay of nearly two months) with a response to questions I did not [...]
May
10
Media Release: Immediate 8 May 2007
Amendments to Protect Policyholders Thrown Out
Attempts to help pensioners and other policy holders who lost money as a result of the mismanagement of Equitable Life Insurance Company during the 1990s were thrown out by the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry set up to help them.
The committee today (8 May 2007) [...]
May
10
Riots in Estonia – Editor Wall Street Journal/Washington Post 10 May 07
May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Sir
Your correspondent Peter Finn did not mention in his report on the riots in Estonia that, in 1990, over 300,000 Estonians took to the streets peacefully to re-establish their freedom from the Soviets after half a century of unwanted occupation. During those long years Russian was the official language of Estonia and it was a [...]
May
9
Text of presentation to the Budget Control Committee of the European Parliament
May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
3 May 2007 by Ashley Mote MEP, Independent, SE England
My report before the Committee today deals with the way House of Lords’ enquiry last year into EU financial management was misled by staff members of the European Commission and its institutions, and my a former vice-president of the Commission, Neil Kinnock.
Neither Lord Kinnock nor OLAF [...]
May
2
MEP Deplores Discharge Vote on EU’s Accounts
May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
25 April 2007 “Taxpayers Interests Ignored Once Again”
Following today’s discharge of the EU’s 2005 accounts by a series of votes in the European Parliament, Independent MEP Ashley Mote, SE England, issued the following statement:
“Today’s vote is a disgraceful dereliction of MEPs’ parliamentary duty to protect the interests of the people of all member states.
The European [...]







