Seven Theorems in Search of the European Parliament: Federal Trust Paper (European Parliamentary Democracy)
NewsBiscuit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Europeans took to the streets in celebration today after foiling a daring plot by the Conservative Party to ‘completely eradicate’ the European Parliament. On the night of November 5th a man was discovered in a cellar underneath the European Parliament drafting a carefully-worded letter to the Council of Ministers tentatively ...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Brussels should shelve plans to impose controversial new rules on hedge funds and private equity until new banking regulation is finalised or risk indulging in "regulatory hubris" and undermining Europe's financial services sector according to an influential report from the European Parliament.
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nikki given US pledge on UK identitySaturday, 7th November 2009UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has secured a pledge from the US Secretary of State of Homeland Security to protect the British identity of UK citizens travelling to the United States. The West Midlands MEP this week welcomed Janet Napolitano, America's first female head of Homeland Security, to “the pedantic European Parliament” and...
UKIP (Free subscription) | yesterday
UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has secured a pledge from the US Secretary of State of Homeland Security to protect the British identity of UK citizens travelling to the United States. The West Midlands MEP this week welcomed Janet Napolitano, America's first female head of Homeland Security, to “the pedantic European Parliament” and highlighted the better quality of freedom of speech that is...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair was no enthusiast for Proportional Representation. He gave it to new bodies to indicate that he didn't think they mattered. But his introduction of the party list system for Strasbourg, while certainly having that motivation, also had another. The old European Parliamentary Labour Party had been a rich seam of dissent over many long years. Almost all of it was duly purged. To that end, the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a flavour of what the TUV leader Jim Allister has been directing at the DUP in his party’s annual conference address. According to Allister Peter Robinson consulted a doctor (joke) on the wellbeing of his party. Dialogue went as follows: “Is it political swine flu ? ” Peter asked. “No” said the doctor. “Your problem:TUV it is. TUVITIS”...
MacBlender (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Parliament today agreed on a new set of legal protections for those threatened with losing Internet access under anti-piracy rules. The new measure in the EU’s Telecoms Reform Package considers Internet access a “fundamental” right and will require that EU countries implement a “fair and impartial” process if their laws allow for [...]
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wolverhampton's Liberal Democrat Euro MP Liz Lynne has backed the International Day of Action Against Uranium Weapons by repeating her call for the UK and other EU states to ban Depleted Uranium weapons.
倫敦藝術大學台灣資訊網 (Free subscription) | yesterday
台灣護照持有者 明年”可能”可以入境申根國免簽證 British MEP Charles Tannock has been successful in his long-running campaign to make it easier for the Taiwanese to visit Europe. It follows news that from January 1 Taiwan citizens are set to enjoy visa-free status when...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Swiss are to vote on whether Mosques should have minarets on them. I noticed that on Thursday's Question Time, Robert Kilroy-Silk's point that we were never given a vote on mass immigration was particularly strong with the audience, and this is, I suppose, one of the ways in which immigration, or the impact thereof, could be voted upon by the public - if we were given a vote about whether mosques...
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
European Parliament lawmakers on Friday demanded that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ease restrictions for Europeans traveling to the United States, saying plans to impose a new
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | yesterday
BNP leader argues with a 13-year-old at WWI monument to Indian troops Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has paid a secret visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium – only to become embroiled in an angry confrontation with a 13-year-old schoolboy, The Independent has learnt. On Wednesday the pupil, William Robey, was in Ypres visiting the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing...
Next Left (Free subscription) | yesterday
An interesting report on Think Progress flags up the growing discord between populist right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in what could prove an important schism within the US right. This time the occasion is a blame game is over the Democratic victory in a safe Republican congressional district , after a heated schism in which prominent movement conservatives...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
You may not share Daniel Hannan's rightwing views, but at least he has the courage to stand up for his Eurosceptic beliefs In the years since I first met Dan Hannan I have grown used to all sorts of labels being attached to his name – "loony" seems to be a favourite of the left, while even David Cameron called his views on the NHS " eccentric ". Now he is being accused of...
Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Matt Hawes As part of our Operation Health Freedom series , British MEP Daniel Hannan talks about the National Health Service (NHS), England's publicly-funded health care system, and looks at why it is so difficult to reform such a system once people get used to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5vSkpIFByk Click here to view a version without edited clips.
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