The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty
They're Joking. Aren't they? (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Over at Conservative Ho they’ve been busier than Carol Decker’s drycleaners in whitewashing David Cameron’s betrayal of his ‘cast iron pledge’ to hold a referendum of the Lisbon Treaty if it was in force by the time he was elected Provincial Governor. This: " Today , I will give this cast-iron guarantee: if I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum...
The Swiss Cottage (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This week’s headlines brought to life another of those quirky British traits. Despite living on an island barely 35 kilometres off the coast of France, the British have an odd and often divisive love-hate relationship with the rest of Europe. Unlike other Europeans, the British seem to wear antipathy toward mainland Europe as a badge of honour. I’ve always struggled to comprehend why treating...
Surreal Scoop (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Following news that the Lisbon Treaty will now be ratified by all member states, David Cameron pledged his future to making further pledges but said that the days of a cast-iron pledge may now be unsustainable. “Two years ago, when there was little hope I would be in power, I made the people of Great Britain a cast-iron promise to hold a referendum on the EU Treaty,” explained Mr Cameron....
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
There was a sense that the story on "Do-nothing" Dave and his amazing technicolour "Europe” policy was beginning to fizzle out. We've done it to death, although for once we've been addressing our core subject – the one for which this blog was set up. What now gives it "legs" though is the reaction filtering in from the rest of the member states, which gives us a...
WWP-SENIOR SPEAKS! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David Cameron has said that if the Conservatives win next year’s general election, there won’t be a referendum on the EU reform treaty because it has already been ratified.All the votes the Conservatives were going to get as a result of Labour not giving us a referendum must now go to the UK Independence Party. The Conservatives either don’t understand their supporters, or don’t...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Politicians across the continent condemn Conservative plans to claw back decision-making powers from Brussels Britain's allies in the EU have served notice on David Cameron that no support exists in Europe for his plans to repatriate certain laws to Britain. In a sign of deep unease at Cameron's Euroscepticism, after France's Europe minister dubbed the Tories "pathetic", a series of fellow...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
David Cameron is heading for a confrontation with Europe after some of Britain's closest EU allies today rejected out of hand key demands outlined by the Conservative leader this week. Three more countries today dismissed the Tories' new approach, in a direct rebuff to William Hague, who insisted that the party was not isolated after the French Europe minister had accused the Conservatives of "castrating"...
Captain Ranty (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Some information for you. I have not checked it for accuracy, but most of it looks sound. (Link to site embedded in the title). 1. The Queen has signed 6 of the 7 EU Treaties. 2. The 6 treaties define and build the EU as an unelected dictatorship. 3. The EU's laws give it the powers of a police state. 4. The 7th EU treaty will complete the abolition of Britain as a nation - the Queen could sign it...
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday reluctantly signed the Lisbon Treaty on the future of the European Union. The signature followed a Czech constitutional court ruling earlier in the day saying the treaty does not clash with the Czech constitution. President Vaclav Klaus signed the Lisbon treaty after the Czech Constitutional Court issued its verdict this morning, Klaus himself said today. The...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Seeing as some of my readers seem to be blind to reasoned argument, let me issue them with this challenge. Can any of you point to ANY occasion when David Cameron promised a post ratification referendum? See, you can't, can you, because he didn't? And don't take the Gordon Brown route of pointing to the 'cast-iron guarantee' quote in The Sun. I've quoted it before, but seeing as though a good proportion...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A BRITISH Conservative government would pass legislation to guarantee that future European Union treaties are put to referendum “just like Ireland”, Conservative leader David Cameron has declared.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
David Cameron declared yesterday that he would not allow his premiership to be dominated by a "massive bust-up" with the European Union as he shelved any Europe referendum for at least five years.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Cameron claims to be defending national sovereignty. But when it comes to the City or the US, he's happy to ditch it So now we know what a " cast iron guarantee " from David Cameron is worth. The Tory leader's abandonment of his pledge to hold a referendum on "any EU treaty" that emerged from the Lisbon negotiations will surely come to bear out William Hague's private warning that...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Cameron promises a referendum for the UK on any future EU treaties. He says "would prevent the "drift" towards a federal Europe". Also, very...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
PM of Sweden: The EU's Lisbon Treaty, now ratified by all 27 member states, will come into force on December 1.
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