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As the eurozone nose dives into serious trouble, several members states finally understand the potentially catastrophic consequences to their economic life and financial stability.
Greece is already a basket case, Portugal, Italy and Spain are going in the same direction, and there are serious fears for Ireland.  Civil unrest has already started, while mass unemployment and [...]

I have had the great pleasure – and privilege come to that – of an exchange of correspondence with the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, whose government took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Council at the beginning of 2009.
My correspondence followed the disgraceful attempts by the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs [...]

Helsinki’s mayor has called for urgent action to curb the number of migrants to Finland.
Mr Pajunen said on the web “Helsinki has set out to turn immigration into a resource and a source of vitality. At the current rate, quite the opposite is happening”
Helsinki’s growth in population is attributed entirely to the increase in immigrants.  [...]

Not for the first time I am happy to give space on this site to the views of others with words of insight or – in this case – warning.  You will recognise the following as being far too close for comfort. Here and there I have taken the liberty of anglicising the comments.
The Ten [...]

Editor
Hampshire Chronicle
Winchester
January 2009
Sir
You report (1st January) that South Downs businesses are about to receive “a slice of a one million euro fund” to be used to develop sustainable tourism.
You omit to mention that this is British taxpayers’ money in the first place, and that the funds come with strings imposed by Brussels.
May I remind readers [...]

Vineeta Gupta
Managing Editor
Oxford University Junior Dictionary
Oxford University Press
Saxon Way West, Corby
Northants, NN18 9ES
cc: Henry Reece, Chief Executive
December 2008
My attention has been drawn to the fact that your latest edition has omitted a large number of words which British children could reasonably expect to find in such an authoritative publication. I understand from the editor of [...]

The British Justice Minister, Jack Straw, has recently been given the right by a British court to pardon a man convicted of a crime in another EU country. Having been transferred from Bulgaria, where the alleged crime was committed, the verdict will be quashed, and the man walk out of jail free and innocent.
Meanwhile, the [...]

Editor
Daily Telegraph
December 2008
Sir
You report that MEPs voted to abolish the UK opt-out on the Working Time Directive.  Not quite right.  We voted to keep negotiations open as being the best option available to retaining the UK’s opt-out.  We may still lose.
In which case the political law of unintended consequences will kick in.  As I wrote [...]

by Ashley Mote MEP, Independent, South-East England
Member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budget Control
An EU report admitted that in 2007 nearly £5 million of taxpayers’ money was lost to fraud and irregularities – their word for incompetence – every working day.
According to the report, released quietly through Agence Europe just as the European Parliament [...]

Statement by Ashley Mote MEP, Independent, SE England
14 January 2009
The pesticides directive legislation passed through the European Parliament this week, against my vote and many others.  But – as usual – the federalist consensus won the day.
Before the vote, however, I had the opportunity to speak against.  This is what I said:
“I have been deluged [...]

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