Apr
29
Threat of More Regulation of Small Businesses
April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Over 99 per cent of all businesses in the 27 nation states of the EU are small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs for short). There are about 23 million altogether. They provide about 75 million jobs, two-thirds of total employment, and generate 60 per cent of all economic activity.
So what does the European Commission now have [...]
Apr
28
European Commission scathing over Brown and Darling’s borrowing – Times Online
April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
European Commission scathing over Brown and Darling’s borrowing
Times Online, UK – 17 minutes ago
In the latest blow to the Chancellor, the European Commission threw its weight behind the attacks of other leading institutions on his upbeat Budget …
28 Apr 2008 17:15:41 (Source: business.timesonline.co.uk)
Apr
28
EU should export not change its farm policy, says French minister – EUobserver.com
April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
EU should export not change its farm policy, says French minister
EUobserver.com, Belgium – 7 hours ago
Europe should also further tighten up its quality and health regulations as well as impose import bans for products from abroad which do not meet such …
28 Apr 2008 09:36:21 (Source: news.google.co.uk)
Apr
28
Letter to The Sunday Telegraph
April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Sir Enoch Powell and Immigration
What gall of Trevor Phillips now to claim that multiculturalism has damaged this country (report 20 April).
It has been the devious minds behind his quango (now called the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights) who have done so much to encourage multiculturalism in the UK.
Why did it take him so long [...]
Apr
19
7 March 2008
Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP
Minister for Europe
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London
SW1A 2AH
Welcome to the hot seat. I have already seen off several of your predecessors, some of whom were reduced to not replying at all to my letters and questions. You can be sure I, and others like me, will see this fight through [...]
Apr
19
South-East MEP Votes Against Lisbon Treaty
April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
20 February 2008
Independent MEP for South-east England, Ashley Mote, was one of only 115 members of the European Parliament who voted against the EU’s Lisbon Treaty on Wednesday 20th February, on the grounds that it is the rejected Constitutional Treaty of 2004 by another name. The resolution was supported by 525 members, while 29 abstained.
During [...]
Apr
19
AUSTRALIAN CONCERN OVER THE ENFORCED EU CITIZENSHIP OF THE QUEEN – 6 February 2008
April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The following message has just been received from the Australian Monarchist League, which have been raising this huge constitutional question for years
It is still unanswered, as my best efforts below indicate.
Loyal Australians need our help – all they can get. Republicanism is on the march again and the Lisbon Treaty is a great bonus to [...]
Apr
19
Letter to Rt Hon David Miliband MP
April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Mr Woody is clearly in need of a serious briefing on the facts concerning British membership of the European Union.
4 February 2008
Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
King Charles Street,
Main Building
London,
SW1A 2AH
One of my constituents, John Holt of Runfold, Surrey, has complained to me about a letter [...]
Apr
19
Update on the New EU Constitution
April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Letter to Daily Telegraph
29 June 2007
Sir
How Richard Corbett MEP can claim (letters 29 June) the new EU treaty “will replace the constitutional treaty with a set of pragmatic reforms” leaves me speechless.
In the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee earlier this week he heard – as I did – various federalist members joking about whether 90% [...]
Apr
19
The president of the European Commission, Jose-Manuel Barroso, replies…
April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The president of the European Commission, Jose-Manuel Barroso, replied to Roger Helmer MEP and Ashley Mote MEP some four months after they wrote asking why EU projects and institutions dependent on the lapsed EU constitution for their legality appeared still to be going ahead.
They wrote on 21 June 2005, and sent a reminder in 9 [...]







