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The European Commission last week confirmed that its massive stream of income from taxpayers is gold-plated. It will not be reduced because of the recession now strangling the world’s economy.
Dalia Grybauskaite, the Moscow-educated Budget Commissioner from Lithuania, confirmed in a written answer to Ashley Mote MEP that “when customs duties and VAT-based revenue fall, the GNI-based own [...]

The socialist Richard Corbett (Yorks and Humberside) presented what he called and “interesting report” to the Budget Control Committee last week, about the way all 27 nation states conduct internal audits of their public accounts. Essentially his report was based on a paper survey of all treasury and audit departments.
Unfortunately he forgot to ask the [...]

The European Parliament has launched a glitzy campaign to promote the European elections in June. No mention is made of the fact that the parliament is an elaborate charade, an illusion of parliamentary accountable democracy, home to over 700 expensive “monkeys pushing buttons for bananas” once a month to alleged legitimacy to the laws invented [...]

Ashley Mote MEP’s Non-Speech
After the British prime minister Gordon Brown had addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (24 March) one speaker from each political grouping was allowed to respond. Several British MEPs in the non-attached group wanted that slot and all but one failed. Had the opportunity fallen to independent MEP Ashley Mote, this [...]

The farcical charade of the European Parliament having some real control over the EU’s profligate spending goes on.  But last week, at the penultimate meeting of the Budget Control Committee before the June elections, we managed to cause a small train wreck with the EU’s 2007 accounts.
Despite the permanent built-in majority in favour of the [...]

A Message to the new Secretary-General of the European Parliament, Klaus Welle
I must inform you that I have no intention whatsoever of observing the European Parliament’s guidelines on what your predecessor Harald Romer unwisely chose to call “gender-neutral” language.  My staff have been instructed to ignore them completely.
Such utter nonsense belongs in the dustbin of [...]

The Cold War may have ended nearly 20 years ago, but we are still a long way from being cleansed of former Soviet-trained communist collaborators working in the West.
At least two current European Commissioners were educated in the Soviet Union – Siim Kallas of Estonia and Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania.  Despite coming new to the [...]

Muslim disturbances are becoming the norm in ‘peaceful’ Sweden.  Malmö, one of the largest and most stylish cities in the south of the country, now has the highest percentage of resident Muslims anywhere in Sweden.  And trouble is now commonplace.
Recently, a Swedish sports fan posted the following comments after violence at a tennis tournament between [...]

They Picked the Wrong Man
The deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, Dr Meglena Plugtschieva, visited my office in Strasbourg last week, accompanied by an entourage of four aides.  She came to plead that her country should not be penalised by the withdrawal of EU funds because it is corrupt.  No, I joke not!
Last July the EU [...]

The Channel 4 Dispatches programme recently asked me to take part in a programme investigating government waste, including the waste of taxpayers’ money on the EU’s Regional Development Agencies.  The South-East England Regional Development Agency (SEEDA) was selected for close attention.  Unfortunately that part of the programme has now been dropped, for reasons which are [...]

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