The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU’
What you always wanted to know about the ‘Brussels EU’ – But no one dared to tell you
News – Archive 2011
December 14, 2011
Eurozone crisis poses military risk, warns defence chief General Sir David Richards
Defence chiefs are drawing up plans to cope with the potential military fallout from the eurozone crisis, according to General Sir David Richards. It is understood that Armed Forces planners are looking at the possibility that a new global financial crash could undermine the defence forces of key British allies. The head of the Armed Forces warned that economic issues pose a “strategic risk” to Britain.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
December 14, 2011
Poland Protesters Blast EU Plan
WARSAW – Thousands of protesters marched through the heart of the Polish capital Tuesday night, shouting their opposition to the European Union's latest plans to rescue the euro zone and demanding that Poland's government not participate. Waving red-and-white Polish flags and chanting, “We want sovereignty, not the euro,” the demonstrators marked the anniversary of the communist-era imposition of martial law here by decrying proposed new EU limits on state budgets as an unwarranted loss of national independence.
Read article in the Wall Street Journal (USA)
December 14, 2011
Polish opposition: EU fiscal treaty means German rule
Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said Polish leaders at last week's EU summit sold the country's sovereignty to Germany for the sake of “private interests.” Kaczynski made the accusations at a rally in Warsaw on Tuesday (13 December) that saw several thousand people turn out to mark the 30th anniversary of the imposition of martial law in Communist times. “Herr Tusk and Sikorski: serve the Germans in Berlin, leave Poland to the Poles,” one banner proclaimed. “Euro macht frei,” another one said, referring to the motto of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Read article at euobserver.com
December 12, 2011
Disgraced German re-emerges as European Commission adviser
Brussels – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a disgraced German politician who went into self-imposed exile nine months ago, re-emerged Monday with an honorary post as a European Union adviser.
Read article at monstersandcritics.com
Comment: Notably, Guttenberg was raised from the age of 14 by his step-father, who was the son of a prominent Nazi, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Ribbentrop was Hitler's foreign minister from 1933 to 1945 and coordinated the military component of WWII, the Oil and Drug Cartel's second war of global conquest. In 1947, Ribbentrop was tried in Nuremberg and hanged for his crimes. One may argue that a mere family relationship does not necessarily predetermine allegiances with corporate interests or political strategies. In this case, however, the facts speak for themselves. Former German defence minister Guttenberg is an adamant advocate of the militarization of Europe and the launch of a European army. Pressured for resignation after publicly defending the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan by German troops, Guttenberg responded in front of a German TV audience: “I will definitely stay, even if a storm is blowing. That is the way I have been educated – and that is the way I will behave.” To learn more about the hidden history of the Brussels EU, click here.
December 9, 2011
EU suffers worst split in history as David Cameron blocks treaty change
The European Union suffered the most damaging split in its 54 year history after David Cameron used the British veto to block eurozone treaty change after France and Germany opposed “safeguards” to protect Britain's economy.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
December 8, 2011
More than 80% of Tories say they want Cameron to offer a referendum on EU treaty
More than eight in ten Tory party members want a referendum on any new EU treaty that involves substantial changes to relations between member states. An exclusive survey by the ConservativeHome.com website for the Daily Mail found that 84 per cent of 1,788 members surveyed believe David Cameron should offer the public a say on an EU deal, compared to just ten per cent who disagree.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
December 7, 2011
New cases illustrate 'conflict of interest' involving former EU staff
Eight new cases "illustrating the extent of Brussels' revolving door problem" have been highlighted in a new report. The eight cases cited by the group Corporate Europe Observatory feature individuals who, it says, have moved through the "revolving door" from the European institutions, including the commission, into private sector lobbying jobs. The Brussels-based group says they have done so "apparently without the proper checks or adequate restrictions being imposed".
Corporate Europe Observatory says that the "easy shift" from the EU institutions to private sector lobby jobs can create "serious conflicts of interest and lead to privileged access by corporate interests".
Read article at theparliament.com
December 7, 2011
Owen Paterson tells David Cameron: EU referendum is 'inevitable'
A referendum on Britain's relationship with the European Union is "inevitable", Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland Secretary, has said.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
December 6, 2011
Cameron's choice – between British voters and the global elite
Every national leader is confronted with this choice at a time of global crisis: does he answer to the political demands of his own country, or defer to what seems to be a larger international imperative? David Cameron seems to have made his decision. Judging by the way he openly repudiated Iain Duncan Smith's statement at the weekend that a referendum would be required for Britain's agreement to any treaty change in the EU – even if it did not affect our membership directly – the Prime Minister is prepared to defy not just what the BBC calls "the Right wing of his party", but the majority of public opinion.
Read blog entry by Janet Daley on the Daily Telegraph website (UK)
December 6, 2011
Euroscepticism hits record high in Sweden: poll
STOCKHOLM - Almost nine out of 10 Swedes want to stay outside the eurozone and keep their currency the krona, a poll published Tuesday showed as the single currency faces its worst crisis since its inception, AFP reported.
Read article on the website of the FOCUS Information Agency (Bulgaria)
December 5, 2011
Iain Duncan Smith calls for referendum on European 'fiscal union'
Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, yesterday put himself at the head of a Conservative push to force David Cameron to hold a referendum on the European “fiscal union” being drawn up by France and Germany. The Work and Pensions Secretary said that any “major treaty change” in the EU should be put to a British vote, a promise that the Prime Minister has so far carefully avoided making. Mr Cameron will this week attend a summit in Brussels where Angela Merkel, the German leader, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, will outline plans to resolve the eurozone debt crisis by integrating the tax and spending systems of countries using the single currency.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
December 5, 2011
Fascists enter by the back door
There has been a curious oversight in the mainstream media's coverage of the European Union's replacement of the elected Greek government with one allegedly of "technocrats." This effective coup d'etat involved the replacement of an elected government of social democrats, which was judged unable to carry out the diktats of the unelected triumvirate of European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund, with a team headed by former ECB vice-president Lucas Papademos. The message was that, regrettable though it may be, the Greek people could not be expected to appreciate the ins and outs of the mess that they had got themselves into, and need a team of experts to get them out of it. What they needed, they were told, was a safe pair of hands. The reality of what they got turns out not quite to match this image.
Read article in the Morning Star (UK)
November 29, 2011
Public support for EU social policy in 'dramatic' nose-dive
A regular European Commission social issues survey out on Tuesday (29 November) has shown that the public's belief that the EU is having a positive impact on employment and social policy - policies with the biggest impact on ordinary peoples' lives - has sharply declined in almost all countries. “Compared with 2009, there has been a substantial fall in the number of people who think that the EU has a positive impact,” the survey says.
Read article at euobserver.com
November 24, 2011
Campaigners call for more transparency on ex-commission officials
A report says that “too few” checks are being made on ex-commission officials who move into jobs in the lobby industry. It says this potentially can result in “abuses of power”.
Read article at theparliament.com
November 21, 2011
40 per cent believe Britain would be better off out of European Union
Almost half of the population believes Britain would be better off if it left the European Union, according to a Harris poll for Metro.
Read article on the Metro newspaper website (UK)
November 11, 2011
EU turmoil revives calls for referendum
David Cameron is to face renewed pressure to call a referendum after senior European Commission officials said the overhaul of the eurozone would trigger a national poll in Ireland.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
November 10, 2011
MEPs hit out over 'shameful' report on EU accounts
MEPs say that EU leaders should be "shamed" by the latest report of the European Court of Auditors. One MEP said the latest annual report on the EU accounts for 2010, published on Wednesday, "once again found them riddled with fraud and waste". The court said that overall 3.7 per cent of the EU's €122bn budget in 2010 was spent in error or against EU rules. In the area of cohesion, energy and transport, the figure was as high as 7.7 per cent of total spending. The report suggests that 'irregularities' - or possible fraud in layman's terms - are on the rise from their previous 2009 report.
Read article at theparliament.com
November 6, 2011
Now the Union Jack is under attack as EU officials try to take us closer to a United States of Europe
Senior officials cause outrage by suggesting member states should drop their flags in favour of the EU design
It has become traditional for David Cameron to appear at European summits in front of both the Union Jack and the EU emblem to illustrate the ‘dual sovereignty’ between London and Brussels. But now a senior EU official has caused outrage by appearing to suggest that the national flags of member states should be dropped in favour of the EU design of a circle of stars on a blue background.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
November 5, 2011
Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day
The Eurocracy's contempt for the nation-states it governs is growing ever more flagrant.
It isn’t often that you are aware of the world order changing before your eyes. Last week, the European Union effectively undermined the democratically elected government of one member state and put another one on notice.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
November 5, 2011
Britain faces new isolation threat from eurozone 'caucus'
Britain will be marooned inside a "permanent minority" in European Union decision making in just three years' times after rule changes kick in on member states' voting powers, according to a new report.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
November 3, 2011
Greek public 'should have the right to say' in referendum
Party of European Socialists president Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has called for "everyone to respect the right of Greek people to express their will freely" in the referendum called by the country's prime minister George Papandreou. Speaking on Thursday, Rasmussen, a former Danish MEP, said, "It is difficult for those outside Greece to realise the extent of the sacrifices that Greek citizens are making.
Read article at theparliament.com
November 2, 2011
Citizens may be compelled to appear before EU parliament
Plans to allow parliament the right to summon any resident of the EU to appear before it have been branded a "huge power grab". The attack comes after parliament adopted a report by UK Labour MEP David Martin, allowing MEPs to summon any resident of the EU concerning a matter of European law. The report also says the assembly should have the right to demand a resident testifies under oath at a parliamentary inquiry and impose sanctions through the member state if the person does not comply.
Read article at theparliament.com
November 2, 2011
Tory rebels form new Eurosceptic group
Conservative MPs have defied David Cameron by forming a new Eurosceptic group to keep up the pressure on him to redefine Britain's relationship with the European Union. In a provocative act, they are calling themselves the "81 Group" – a reference to the 81 Tories who rebelled last week by demanding a referendum on Europe. While Mr Cameron had hoped that the biggest backbench revolt of his premiership was a one-off, the sceptics are warning that it was only a start and are determined to maintain the momentum.
Read article in The Independent (UK)
November 1, 2011
Financial crisis: Eurocrats are terrified of democracy
Greece’s prime minister George Papandreou is in the doghouse only because he dared to offer voters a choice. Shall I tell you the truly terrifying thing about the EU? It’s not the absence of democracy in Brussels, or the ease with which Eurocrats swat aside referendum results. It’s the way in which the internal democracy of the member states is subverted in order to sustain the requirements of membership. George Papandreou, the luckless Greek leader, is the latest politician to find himself being chewed up because he stands in the way of the Brussels machine. On Monday afternoon, Papandreou announced a referendum on whether to accept the EU’s bail-out terms.
Read blog entry by Daniel Hannan on the Daily Telegraph website (UK)
October 31, 2011
Did the Euro’s Architects Expect It to Fail?
Could it be that the politicians and eurocrats who designed the structures of the euro zone always knew they were flawed, but reasoned that a structural breakdown would enable them to bring in the common fiscal policy that would otherwise have been politically impossible?
Read blog entry by Martin Essex on the Wall Street Journal website (USA)
October 31, 2011
Half of Conservative MPs 'want to pull out of the EU'
Twice as many Tory MPs want Britain to pull out of the European Union as voted for a referendum last week, one of the leading rebel MPs has claimed. Mark Reckless suggested that as many as half of the 306-strong Parliamentary party – over 150 MPs - were privately in favour of Britain withdrawing from Europe.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
October 29, 2011
This was the week that European democracy died
The plan to tackle the eurozone crisis will only render ordinary people more powerless.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
October 27, 2011
Europe could be plunged into war if efforts to save euro fail: German Chancellor
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued a warning that European countries could end up warring with each other if the euro collapses.
Read news report at yahoo.com
Comment: Merkel’s statement follows the recent illuminating analysis of the Polish Finance Minister, Jacek Rostowski. Providing evidence that the message of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation’s book has now reached the minds of the European political elite, and with EU leaders scrambling to contain the panic, Rostowski spoke candidly of the risk of war on the continent within 10 years if the eurozone collapses.
October 26, 2011
Public in no mood to amend Lisbon deal
The Irish electorate is likely to reject any attempt to amend the Lisbon Treaty to deal with the financial crisis in the European Union, according to the latest Irish Times /Ipsos MRBI poll. When asked how they would vote on an amendment to the Lisbon Treaty to extend the powers of the EU to deal with the financial crisis, 47 per cent said they would vote No; 28 per cent said they would vote Yes; and 25 per cent were undecided.
Read article in the Irish Times (Ireland)
October 25, 2011
Cameron has no choice but to change his tune on Europe
David Cameron has a full-scale civil war on his hands now that around 80 Conservative MPs have defied his refusal to concede a referendum on Britain's European future. The scale of the revolt was astonishing. Backed by his henchmen, the Prime Minister had imposed a three-line whip on his party, the strongest possible instruction to his MPs to fall into line behind his leadership.
But in an act of outright mutiny, more than a third of his backbenchers, many of them new MPs, rejected his personal appeal to them to ignore the mounting public pressure for a popular vote on Britain's relationship with the EU.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
October 25, 2011
EU Referendum: Standing up for democracy
From all corners of Britain they came in their hundreds yesterday. United by a common cause that has the backing of most of Britain, protesters calling for a referendum on Europe took their fight to the Houses of Parliament. Most were armed with placards demanding elected politicians heed the nationwide calls for a public vote on leaving the EU.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
October 24, 2011
EU referendum: poll shows 49% would vote for UK withdrawal
Some 70% of voters want a vote on Britain's EU membership, Guardian/ICM poll shows
Conservative rebels pushing for an in-or-out referendum on Europe are riding the tide of public opinion, according to a Guardian/ICM poll. Some 70% of voters want a vote on Britain's EU membership, and by a substantial nine-point margin respondents say they would vote for UK withdrawal. Forty-nine per cent would vote to get Britain out of Europe, against just 40% who prefer to stay in.
Read article in the Guardian (UK)
October 19, 2011
MPs to vote on call for referendum on UK leaving the EU
Backbench MPs have agreed to hold a debate and vote on calls for a referendum to be held on whether the UK stays in the European Union. Members of the Backbench Business Committee agreed to hold the debate on October 27 on a motion calling for a referendum by May 2013. Tory MP David Nuttall's motion says the public should have three options put to them in the nationwide vote - keeping the status quo, leaving the EU or reforming the terms of the UK's membership of the European Union.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
Comment: Tellingly, Prime Minister David Cameron’s office have reportedly indicated that all Conservative MPs will be expected to support the government in rejecting the referendum option. As such, by enforcing the UK’s continued subjugation under the ‘Brussels EU’, Cameron’s government would be proving yet again that it does not have the interests of British citizens at heart.
October 17, 2011
Euroscepticism among Conservative MPs
Two-thirds of Conservative MPs want to renegotiate the UK's relationship with Europe but are too scared to reveal their true Eurosceptic sentiment, claim Conservative Party insiders.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
October 2, 2011
At last: We get vote on Europe as MPs are forced to decide on referendum
A historic vote on growing demands for Britain to leave the European Union will be held in the Commons before Christmas. MPs will debate whether the Government should give voters a chance to decide the issue once and for all in a referendum. It will be the first time Parliament has held a major vote on seeking the public’s view since the 1975 referendum confirming the decision to join the Common Market.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
September 30, 2011
Half of all Germans want to ditch euro
Half of Germans want to ditch the euro and return to the deutschmark, a major survey showed just a day after Angela Merkel drove through a vote in favour of a Greek bailout. The poll conducted for respected newspaper Die Welt showed 50% of Germans wanting a return to the old currency and only 48% supporting the euro.
Read article in the Evening Standard (UK)
September 28, 2011
MEP hits out at plans for EU 'schools propaganda'
A UK Conservative MEP has hit out against commission plans which she fears will lead to schoolchildren being "force-fed pro-Brussels propaganda". She claims the proposals, contained in a report to parliament, could lead to pupils having "compulsory lessons in how to be good Europeans and receiving a biased version of the EU's benefits to society".
Read article at theparliament.com
Comment: The EU Commission’s plans follow demands by the so-called “European People's Party” group for school pupils in all EU member states to be forced to take lessons about the bloc. Without doubt, therefore, under the dictatorial regime of the ‘Brussels EU’, such lessons would not result in school pupils being taught the real facts about the bloc and its origins.
September 28, 2011
William Hague: Euro is a burning building
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the euro is "a burning building with no exits" for some of the countries which adopted the currency. Mr Hague first used the expression when he was Conservative leader in 1998 - and said in an interview with the Spectator he had been proved right.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
September 27, 2011
Miliband 'can split the Coalition if he backs a poll on EU membership'
Ed Miliband today came under pressure to back a referendum on Britain's EU membership as a way to split the coalition government. Eurosceptic Labour MPs said the move would be a "game changer" as a poll showed a majority of the party's voters would back it. They argued that there was a growing feeling in the country that Britain should hold a vote on the relationship with Brussels for the first time in 36 years as economic turmoil grips the eurozone. With similar unrest growing on the Conservative benches while the Liberal Democrats remain committed to the European project, the MPs predicted that Labour support for a referendum would break open the Government.
Read article in the Evening Standard (London, UK)
September 19, 2011
Labour and Tory MPs unite to devise plot for Britain to leave the EU
A powerful cross-party coalition of MPs plans to put unprecedented pressure on the Government to pull back from Europe – as support grows at Westminster for Britain to leave the EU altogether. Amid mounting fears over the economic impact on the UK of the deepening eurozone crisis, MPs are putting aside party differences to form an anti-Brussels alliance.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
September 19, 2011
Greece may hold referendum on euro zone membership: report
Greece may hold a voter referendum on euro zone membership as a way to strengthen the government's hand in dealing with the debt crisis within the euro zone or by exiting the single currency, the Kathimerini English language newspaper reported on its website on Tuesday.
Read news report at reuters.com
September 18, 2011
Tory MPs demand referendum on Europe
David Cameron must call a referendum on Europe or face a rebellion from his own party and a backlash from voters, a leading back-bench Tory warns today. Mark Pritchard, the secretary of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, is the most senior Tory yet to demand a vote on Britain’s membership of the European Union following the eurozone crisis. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Pritchard says that the EU has become an “occupying force” which is eroding British sovereignty and that the “unquestioning support” of backbenchers is no longer guaranteed.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
September 14, 2011
Poland warns of war 'in 10 years' as EU leaders scramble to contain panic
Germany, France and the European Commission are scrambling to contain panic and "quash rumours" about a eurozone break-up amid repeated off-piste messages from other senior EU politicians. But even amid their desperate efforts, the finance minister of Poland, the country that currently represents the EU to the world as holder of the bloc’s rotating presidency, warned of war on the continent within 10 years if the eurozone collapses.
Read article at euobserver.com
September 13, 2011
New EU members to break free from euro duty
Seven EU members which joined the European Union between 2004 and 2007 are concerned about an obligation to adopt the euro under the terms of their accession and could stage referenda to change their accession treaties, AFP reported, quoting diplomatic sources.
Read article at euractiv.com
September 11, 2011
George Osborne warns of new EU fiscal union treaty
Talks over a new European Union constitutional treaty have begun as eurozone countries push for radical powers to save Europe's single currency, George Osborne, the Chancellor, has revealed. Germany, France, Italy and EU officials demanded a replacement for the controversial Lisbon Treaty at a G7 meeting in Marseille this weekend.
Read article in the Sunday Telegraph (UK)
September 10, 2011
'As undemocratic as North Korea': What Nick Clegg used to think of the EU as he condemned 'grubby deals' thrashed out in Brussels
Nick Clegg was last night accused of hypocrisy for blocking moves to claw back powers from the EU – while secretly agreeing that Brussels is as ‘undemocratic as North Korea’. Mr Clegg once railed against the excessive power of the EU and condemned the ‘grubby political deals’ cut in the ‘corridors and bars’ of Brussels. And he described the European Council – the EU’s strategic body – as ‘one of only three legislatures in the world in which laws are adopted behind closed doors. The others are to be found in Havana [Cuba] and Pyongyang [North Korea]’.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
September 7, 2011
New intake MPs to press Government over Europe
A group of around 80 new intake Conservative MPs is planning to press the Government for significant changes in Britain’s role in Europe. But it comes as David Cameron ruled out a key eurosceptic demand for a swift vote on the country’s relationship with the EU.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
Comment: The photograph in this article says it all: With David Cameron pretending that there is ‘no case’ for a vote on the UK’s membership of the EU, despite knowing full well that most voters want Britain to quit the bloc, it is now overwhelmingly clear where his true loyalties lie.
September 5, 2011
Herman van Rompuy wants second term as strengthened EU president
Herman van Rompuy is ready to run for a second term as EU president, at the head of a “United States of Europe”. His comments came as Germany further strengthened demands for a new treaty giving the president extra powers.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
Comment: Readers who live outside of Europe should not be misled into thinking that van Rompuy will be “running” for EU president in a democratic election. Appointed by an elite circle of corporate interests in November 2009 following his presidential “job interview” being held at a meeting of the Rockefeller-controlled Bilderberg Group, he assumed the post via a political system in which the people of Europe are totally excluded from the selection process. As such, the Brussels EU system of governance reverses all democratic achievements of European civilization over the past thousand years and throws the entire continent back to Medieval times, when autocratic monarchs ruled Europe outside of any democratic control. To learn more about the nature of the Brussels EU, click here.
September 5, 2011
Lord Lawson: Tear Up Lisbon Treaty
The time has come for Britain to declare that enough is enough on Europe and tear up the Lisbon treaty, according to former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby. The Tory grandee, who was chancellor from 1983 to 1989, writes in The Times that the "eurozone meltdown" is continuing to inflict substantial economic damage, not merely on its member countries but also on the wider world. The decision to embark on European Monetary Union was among the most irresponsible political initiatives of the post-war world, he adds.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
August 14, 2011
Calls for a referendum on EU membership after David Cameron's U-turn on tax
The prime minister is under cross-party pressure to allow a vote on membership as a decision to back fiscal integration threatens to 'fundamentally change' Britain's relationship with Europe
David Cameron is under mounting pressure to pledge a referendum on UK membership of the EU after overturning decades of British foreign policy by backing full fiscal union for the 17-nation eurozone.
Read article in The Observer (UK)
August 13, 2011
Politics: Euroscepticism isn’t just for Tories any more
When Ed Balls lists the greatest accomplishments of his career, he does so with a wonderful lack of modesty. He may have been a mere Treasury adviser when Labour came to power, but even then he was — we now learn — pulling the strings of Tony Blair’s government. Bank of England independence was his idea. Ditto Labour’s decision to stick to the Tories’ eye-wateringly tight spending plans for the first few years of its rule. But Balls’s proudest boast, and one repeated with striking regularity, is that he stopped Britain joining the euro. Not so long ago, the shadow chancellor would have kept this as quiet as his friendship with Damian McBride. When Balls drew up his ‘five tests’ for joining the euro, he was subverting the will of a staunchly pro-European Labour party. But British politics has since changed.
Read article in The Spectator (UK)
August 9, 2011
Most voters want Britain to quit the EU, new poll shows
Most people would vote for Britain to leave the EU in a referendum, an independent poll reveals today. In the biggest sign yet that public opinion is rallying against the UK’s membership, 52 per cent of voters said they want to leave the European Union. Only 30 per cent said they wanted to remain in the EU, according to the YouGov poll. And six out of 10 people want to have the final say on whether we pull out.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
August 7, 2011
PM will not have EU referendum
A senior aide to David Cameron says the Prime Minister has ruled out a referendum on EU membership because Britain delivered a “very clear result” on the issue 36 years ago. In an extraordinary letter described last night as “ridiculous and insulting”, Laurence Mann, Mr Cameron’s political private secretary, said the British people did not want another in or out vote because it would be “artificial and simplistic”.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
Comment: For any British voter who was still in any doubt over the matter, Cameron has finally made it clear where his true loyalties lie.
August 4, 2011
EC president Jose Barroso warns eurozone debt crisis is spreading from smaller nations
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned that the eurozone sovereign debt crisis is spreading from the smaller debt-laden nations to Italy and Spain, the currency area's third- and fourth-largest economies.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
July 22, 2011
Serbia loses faith in European future
The country is on course to qualify for EU membership but public opinion is becoming more sceptical.
Read article in the Guardian (UK)
July 13, 2011
Majority of voters want us to pull out of the EU because of economic chaos
An overwhelming majority of voters want Britain to withdraw from the European Union – with support draining away thanks to the economic chaos surrounding the single currency. A poll released to the Daily Mail shows the public would vote by 50 to 33 per cent to abandon Brussels if a referendum were held tomorrow, a huge lead of 17 points.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
July 8, 2011
Brussels' Eurocrats see EU project in 'lasting crisis'
A recent survey has found deep pessimism among European Commission staff on a wide range of issues, including the course of European integration over the past decade and the likelihood of success of the EU's strategy for economic growth. Some 63% partially or totally agreed that "the European model has entered into a lasting crisis".
Read article at euractiv.com
Comment: European Commission staff are of course correct in recognizing that the so-called 'EU project' is in "lasting crisis." Moreover, with global awareness growing of the construct's Nazi origins, we can be sure that calls for its dismantling will continue to grow.
June 30, 2011
Now cabinet ministers want UK to quit the EU
Senior members of the Prime Minister’s inner circle are convinced that Britain should quit the European Union, it emerged last night. Two Cabinet ministers are reported to have been persuaded that the UK would be better off by cutting its links with Brussels. And Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin, the PM’s policy guru, is also said to have swung behind growing Tory support for withdrawal.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
June 27, 2011
Mark ‘set for comeback’ as German euro crisis deepens
Almost three-quarters of Germans doubt that the euro has a future, a poll reveals. They also believe rescue attempts are futile as billions more euros will be paid to bail out Greece. A poll by German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, found 71 per cent had “doubt,” “no trust” or thought there is “no future” for the euro. Only 19 per cent expressed “confidence” in it.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
June 15, 2011
Greece crisis: Commissioners 'fear future of eurozone'
EU commissioners have a "profound sense of foreboding" about Greece and the future of the eurozone, a leaked account of a meeting has suggested.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
June 9, 2011
FAZ: the EU has become "a demon, uncontrollable, impossible to vote away"
This is some forceful stuff from the Vienna correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dirk Schümer. In a piece published in Monday's paper under the headline "Back to the nation", Mr. Schümer takes a long, critical look at the current state of the European Union - and he takes no prisoners.
Read article on the Open Europe blog site (UK)
June 2, 2011
Greece default risk at 50:50 says Moody's
Greece's credit rating has been cut again by rating agency Moody's. Moody's cut its rating by three notches from B1 to Caa1 - just five notches short of default. The new rating means Greece is 50% likely to default on or restructure its debts in the next five years, according to Moody's methodology.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
May 29, 2011
Nigerian fraud prompts parliamentary control of European Development Fund
Millions of euros of EIB credits to Nigeria are being handed to dubious private equity funds and banks, a watchdog claims. The European parliament at the same time says it is "surprised at [a recent] EIB's statement [saying] that no fraudulent practice exists in the context of EIB Investment Facility programmes." In a recent report, the European Parliament has urged the Commission to compile an overall audit of all development projects financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB). The call reflects an investigation by Counter Balance, a group of non-governmental organisations published in the British newspaper The Guardian in November 2010. Claims have arisen that the EIB granted loans and credits out of the European Development Fund (EDF) to fraudulent private enterprises in Africa.
Read article on the New Europe website
May 27, 2011
Greeks to choose between euro and drachma
Athens is ready to stop using the euro and go back to the drachma. This was announced by European Commissioner for Greece Maria Damanaki. An official message placed on her web site on the 25th of May reads that “the scenario of Greece being distanced from the euro is now on the table”.
Read article on the Voice of Russia website
May 15, 2011
Lib Dem calls for a vote on Europe
One of Nick Clegg’s most senior advisers last night called for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. Tim Farron, the president of the Liberal Democrats, said Britain’s relationship with Brussels had become so “poisonous” that voters deserved the chance to express their views.
Read article in the Sunday Express (UK)
May 13, 2011
The EU's troubles pose a dilemma for Britain
The restructuring of national debt and the manning of international borders might appear, on the face of it, to be only distantly related subjects. But look at what is happening in the European Union. Just as it becomes clear that the EU's rescue of Greece has failed, thus threatening the future of the eurozone, the European project to abolish internal borders via the Schengen agreement has run into desperate trouble. Two central pillars of the European Union – the single currency and passport-free travel – are tottering simultaneously. Britain, as it happens, has signed up to neither. But the European crisis nevertheless has profound implications for our political and economic future.
Read leader article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
May 12, 2011
True Finns won't join govt after clash on bailout
Finland's eurosceptic True Finns party dropped out of talks to form a new government, its leader said on Thursday after disagreeing with the country's top two parties over helping bail out Portugal.
Read news report at reuters.com
May 11, 2011
EU to keep files on all air passengers (and that includes what they EAT on flights)
Millions of holidaymakers will have their personal details tracked on huge databases thanks to the latest EU diktat. Countries will be expected to record air passengers’ information, including who they travelled with, the price they paid for a ticket, and even any meal requests they made.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
May 8, 2011
Europe to spend £225million on army of 1,000 spin doctors to promote EU
The European Commission will next year spend over £225million on propaganda campaigns and the employment of over one thousand spin doctors to sell the EU to a hostile public. The costs of "communicating" the EU are contained in the small print of an inflation-busting Brussels budget that will cost British taxpayers an additional £682million in 2012.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
May 6, 2011
Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone
Athens Mulls Plans for New Currency
The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government's actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone. The common currency area's finance ministers and representatives of the European Commission are holding a secret crisis meeting in Luxembourg on Friday night. Greece's economic problems are massive, with protests against the government being held almost daily. Now Prime Minister George Papandreou apparently feels he has no other option: SPIEGEL ONLINE has obtained information from German government sources knowledgeable of the situation in Athens indicating that Papandreou's government is considering abandoning the euro and reintroducing its own currency.
Read article on the Der Spiegel website (Germany)
April 27, 2011
Plans for EU-wide electoral list condemned as 'nonsense'
Eurosceptic MEPs have condemned plans for a major shake-up of the European elections. Under the plans, 25 MEPs would be elected to represent a single constituency of Europe. The proposals, put forward by UK ALDE deputy Andrew Duff, have been approved by parliament's constitutional affairs committee. Duff, a federalist, says the move is necessary in order to help boost turnout at the elections, which are held every five years.
Read article at theparliament.com
Comment: The elections organized by the Brussels EU dictatorship in June 2009 were nothing short of a Waterloo for its architects. Almost 60 percent of the people of Europe who were eligible to vote protested against the bloc by deliberately abstaining. In addition, a further 4 percent of the eligible electorate cast deliberate votes against the Brussels EU by voting for parties that are anti-EU and/or opposed to the Lisbon Treaty. As such, with voter turnout having fallen consistently in every Brussels EU election since the first one in 1979, Andrew Duff’s plans for an EU-wide electoral list are clearly a desperate attempt to delay the construct’s increasingly inevitable collapse and ultimate dismantling.
April 21, 2011
UKIP leader Farage says budget row shows EU 'arrogance'
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has accused the European Commission of "incredible arrogance" as the row over the EU budget continues.
Mr Farage said the Commission was "completely out of touch" with the public after it called for a 4.9% increase in its spending next year.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
April 20, 2011
"For 500 million Europeans in times of austerity"
...That was how EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski presented his 2012 EU budget proposal, tabled today. With such a heading it must include lots of belt tightening, better targeting and some relief for those European governments whose budget is already incredibly strained, right? Unfortunately, not. To the surprise of no one, the proposal includes increasing the budget by 4.9% (€6.2bn), around 2% more than average inflation in the EU.
Read blog entry on the Open Europe website (UK)
April 20, 2011
The proposed EU budget hike will wipe out all Britain's spending cuts
Almost every country in Europe is trying to hold expenditure down, and many are making more significant cuts than the United Kingdom. From Ireland to Greece, from Portugal to Latvia, public sector employees face redundancies and pay cuts. And where are all the savings going? To public sector employees at EU level. Today, the Commission demanded a 4.9 per cent increase in the EU budget – on top of last year’s increase, which saw Britain’s net contribution rise by an almost unbelievable 74 per cent.
April 18, 2011
Finland's Euro-Skeptics Poised to Form Government Following Election Upset
Finland’s euro-skeptic bloc is poised to enter a government with the pro-Europe National Coalition led by Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen after voters used yesterday’s election to protest against funding bailouts.
Read article at Bloomberg.com
April 7, 2011
Eurosceptics cry foul as EU 'history house' costs soar
Plans to create a museum to celebrate the history of the European Union were hit by controversy this week, amid soaring costs and claims from Eurosceptic MEPs that the project is beset by conflicts of interest.
Read article at euractiv.com
Comment: As we have stated previously, whatever this museum ends up containing, there’s one thing we can be almost certain of: Evidence of the Nazi roots of the Brussels EU, and the role of IG Farben in financing the rise of the Nazis and the preparation for WWII, will be notable only by its absence.
March 31, 2011
Buzek allows Olaf probe, continues to deny access to offices
European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek has let the EU's anti-fraud office (Olaf) conduct an investigation into the Sunday Times cash-for-amendments scandal. But he continues to deny access to MEPs' offices.
Read article at euobserver.com
Comment: Few people will be surprised by the news that, with four members of the Brussels EU Parliament having been caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal, the institution’s President is preventing a full investigation into the matter. Moreover, given that the Brussels EU operates outside of the basic principles of democracy and was designed as a dictatorship under the control of the Oil and Drug Cartel, we should not expect this latest exposé to result in any significant changes as regards the way the construct is run.
March 30, 2011
UK contribution to EU reaches £9bn a year
The UK's payments to the European Union almost doubled in 2010, according to the latest data issued yesterday by the Office for National Statistics – soaring to £230 for every household in the country. The ONS said yesterday that the net transfer of funds from Britain to EU institutions rose from £5.3bn in 2009 to £9.2bn in 2010, a jump of almost £4bn, or 74 per cent – enough to avoid the recent rise in national insurance or the new 50p rate of tax. The UK's contributions to the EU are at their highest level ever, and one of the very few areas of public spending set to increase in coming years despite the cutbacks being made across Britain.
Read article in The Independent (UK)
March 29, 2011
David Cameron accused of not telling whole truth over EU bail-out
David Cameron was accused yesterday of giving an “incomplete account” to MPs by failing to admit that the Conservatives agreed to British involvement in a controversial EU bail-out fund.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
March 28, 2011
Fourth Euro MP named in lobbying scandal
A fourth Euro MP caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal has denied wrongdoing as the European Parliament investigates corruption allegations. Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba said he had been "deceived" by the Sunday Times undercover reporters and had not accepted their offer of cash. But he said he did amend draft legislation at the request of the reporters posing as lobbyists. Two other MEPs have resigned in the affair and a third has left his party.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
March 19, 2011
Now MEPs can use UK taxpayers' cash for propaganda to keep Britain in the EU
The European Parliament has announced that taxpayers’ money will be used to fund pro-Brussels propaganda in any referendum on Britain’s future membership of the EU.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
March 18, 2011
EU history museum branded 'waste of money'
A parliamentary committee has approved the release of EU funds for work to start on a 'House of European history' museum in Brussels. The decision was immediately condemned by eurosceptics as a waste of money.
Read article at theparliament.com
Comment: Whatever this museum ends up containing, there’s one thing we can be almost certain of: Evidence of the Nazi roots of the Brussels EU, and the role of IG Farben in financing the rise of the Nazis and the preparation for WWII, will be notable only by its absence.
March 15, 2011
A referendum on Europe is long overdue
Where’s the problem in giving the British public a say in our membership of the EU, asks Mark Seddon.
Read article by Mark Seddon in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
March 14, 2011
Give us a vote on our future in Europe: Cross-party campaign launched to secure historic referendum
A major political campaign aimed at securing a historic referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU or quit Brussels for good was launched today. The cross-party ‘People’s Pledge’ campaign aims to pile pressure on party leaders and MPs to support a poll that would settle the divisive question of EU membership once and for all.
Read article in the Daily Mail (UK)
March 8, 2011
Plans for 73rd UK MEP condemned as 'undemocratic'
Plans for a 73rd UK MEP have been condemned as "expensive and undemocratic". UK deputy Nikki Sinclaire says the €2m cost of the new MEP could be better spent on "other things". The Lisbon treaty means the UK has been allocated an extra place in parliament and the British government has decided a Conservative MEP will be installed, based on the results of the last European elections. There will be no election and the soonest the new member could be appointed is January 2012, the half way point of the current legislature. It will be the first time in UK history that the country has appointed anyone to an elected body.
Read article at theparliament.com
March 7, 2011
The tide is turning and we see the EU for what it truly is
No politician symbolises the twisted values of the EU more graphically than Baroness Cathy Ashton, the Brussels foreign affairs boss. All the European Union’s traits of hypocrisy, profligacy, arrogance and lack of democracy are embodied in this ridiculous bureaucratic parasite. Baroness Ashton has never been elected to any public office during her unedifying career. Yet now, amid the turmoil of North Africa, she has the nerve to give lectures about the importance of elections and liberty. “True democracy is the necessary foundation of tolerance, peace and prosperity,” she piously intoned in an article last Friday. Well, if she really believes that, why does she not apply such a principle to the unaccountable, self-serving oligarchy of her own EU Commission? If anywhere needs the breath of democracy it is the closed politburo of Ashton and her cronies.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
March 3, 2011
Get Britain out of the EU now
David Cameron was last night challenged to make May 5 the day that Britain decides whether to quit the European Union. The Daily Express stepped up its crusade for the UK to cut ties with Brussels by calling for the planned referendum on electoral reform to be turned into a historic vote on EU membership.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)
March 3, 2011
Survey: Czechs' trust in EU lowest in history
Czechs' trust in the European Union is at a historical low of 46 percent, according to the latest poll conducted by the STEM polling agency, which has monitored the trust since 1994, and released to CTK Wednesday. Public trust in the EU has dropped under 50 percent for the first time in history.
Read article on the Prague Daily Monitor website (Czech Republic)
March 1, 2011
Commission accused of power-grab under new EU rules
Member states and interest groups stand to lose considerable power to the European Commission under new rules surrounding the implementation of EU legislation, experts on the subject say. The rules, which come into force on Tuesday (1 March), are designed to overhaul decision-making in the 300-odd EU committees that vote on the detailed implementation of EU laws - a procedure known as 'comitology'. Through ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, member states handed greater control over hundreds of daily decisions such as food labeling and trade-protection measures to the commission, Daniel Gueguen, a leading public affairs consultant, told EUobserver.
Read article at euobserver.com
February 24, 2011
A step backwards for transparency
The bulk of the cost of regulations in both the UK and Europe stem from the European Union, as we've showed in our extensive research on the subject. But this isn't even the end of the story. Many key decisions on the actual substance of EU laws and regulations are being taken during an uber-opaque process called “Comitology”. As we've noted before, Comitology involves special committees consisting of Commission and national experts deciding on how EU legislation should be implemented - usually behind closed doors - after the proposal has been agreed by national governments and the European Parliament. The Lisbon Treaty - the document, if you remember, that would lead to more transparency in Europe - is introducing new rules for the Comitology procedure, effective from 1 March 2011. The new rules were meant to improve and simplify the system, but are now universally acknowledged to have made the situation even worse.
Read blog entry on the Open Europe website (UK)
February 21, 2011
MEPs question 'Big Brother' urban observation project
Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, a vice-president of the European Parliament, has called on the European Commission to clarify the purpose of an EU-funded project that develops "observation" algorithms to enhance the "security of citizens in urban environments". In an interview with EurActiv Germany, Socialists & Democrats MEP Lambrinidis warned that the project aims to access "all existing feeds in cameras, in the Internet, in DNA databases and even on personal computers". The INDECT project, launched under the European Commission's research programme, develops "algorithms" through "observation" to enhance the "security of citizens in urban environments". According to the MEP, the cameras don't just register crimes but also "abnormal behaviour". This, he says, can introduce "Big Brother into our lives".
Read article at euractiv.com
February 19, 2011
The EU was never meant to be a common market
Watch short speech (1:29) by Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, above, or on the Daily Telegraph website (UK)
February 19, 2011
Labour weighs calls for referendum on Europe
Labour will consider calling for a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union, in its wide-ranging policy review.
Read article in The Independent (UK)
February 16, 2011
UK refuses to endorse EU accounts
George Osborne has refused to endorse the European Commission's accounts after auditors refused to sign them off for 16 consecutive years. The chancellor abstained from a vote to back the accounts during a meeting of European finance ministers and joined Norway and Sweden in calling for a special report on how European grants are awards, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Read article at accountancyage.com (UK)
February 8, 2011
Britain still vulnerable to euro crisis
British taxpayers risk losing £8 billion if, as many are now predicting, Greece defaults on the EU/IMF loan in which we were forced to participate back in May last year. Britain has being sucked into the current crisis affecting the eurozone under Article 122 of the Lisbon treaty, which was passed without the democratic consent of the electorate despite a referendum being promised by all political parties. This article allows the EU Council of Ministers, by qualified majority vote, to provide collective assistance to a member state hit by "natural disasters or exceptional occurrences beyond its control...". However, through a highly elastic and convenient interpretation by the EU elite, the clause is now being used to force countries outside the single currency to bail out those countries that have run into financial trouble.
Read blog entry by Marc Glendening on the Democracy Movement website (UK)
February 6, 2011
GM crops to be allowed into Britain under controversial EU plans
Genetically modified crops will be allowed to enter the UK food chain without the need for regulatory clearance for the first time under controversial plans expected to be approved this week. The Observer understands that the UK intends to back EU plans permitting the importing of animal feed containing traces of unauthorised GM crops in a move that has alarmed environmental groups. Importing animal feed containing GM feed must at present be authorised by European regulators. But a vote on Tuesday in favour of the scheme put forward by the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health would overturn the EU's "zero tolerance" policy towards the import of unauthorised GM crops.
Read article in The Observer (UK)
February 4, 2011
MEPs approve the Brussels takeover of financial services – but who are the nameless officials in charge?
The European Parliament has just appointed three Eurocrats to control Europe’s financial services sector: the directors of the European Securities and Markets Agency, the European Banking Agency and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority. Immediately after the vote, one Member asked, not unreasonably, for the names of the three men we had just appointed. When the acting Speaker, my secret admirer Edward McMillan-Scott, passed on his question to the chamber, there was much embarrassed paper-shuffling. It turned out that, of the 530 MEPs who had just approved the appointments, not one could name the candidates. It was enough, evidently, to have been assured by by Commissioner Barnier that they had been selected “on the basis of their commitment to Europe”.
Read blog entry by Daniel Hannan on the Daily Telegraph website (UK)
February 2, 2011
Transparency NGOs call on EU not to restrict document access
The EU is set to tightly restrict its freedom-of-information rules just seven years after they were introduced, says an alliance of some 180 human rights organisations, transparency pressure groups and journalist unions, which have called on the European Parliament to apply the breaks to proposed legislation. On the weekend a public letter signed by 56 investigative journalists and 131 groups including transparency and access-to-information campaigners and environmental NGOs warned that European Commission proposals that are set to be approved in the coming weeks will "substantially reduce the number of public documents" available upon request.
Read article at euobserver.com
February 1, 2011
EU to collect data of international air travelers
Air travellers going in and out of the EU may soon have to give their personal details to national authorities in the member state of departure or arrival, if proposals set to be put forward by the EU commission on Wednesday are approved by governments and the European Parliament.
Read article at euobserver.com
January 25, 2011
This is why the EU Bill should be amended
The Government on Friday published an annual report that reveals which, and how many, EU crime, justice and immigration laws the UK signed up to between December 2009 and December 2010. The report states (p4) that the Coalition Government has opted in to eight new EU justice and home affairs laws since coming to power in May 2010, including the hugely controversial European Investigation Order, a new "IT Agency" to oversee the EU's vast crime and immigration databases (with start-up costs of around €113m), and granting United States' authorities access to European citizens' banking data under the so-called SWIFT agreement. These are all transfers of power from the UK to the EU but Ministers were free to sign up to them without any democratic checks - Parliament had no say.
Read blog entry on the Open Europe website (UK)
January 20, 2011
EU commission condemned over new 'ethics' code for ex-commissioners
A draft ethics code for former EU commissioners has been branded a "half measure" which will not end the "revolving door scandals." The commission’s new draft code of conduct is designed to address cases where former commissioners exploit their inside knowledge and contacts by taking up lobbying jobs for industry. But the campaign group, Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU), said the draft in its current form would not prevent commissioners from "going through the revolving door" in future.
Read article at theparliament.com
January 11, 2011
Danish PM sued over Lisbon Treaty
The Danish Supreme Court on Tuesday (11 January) ruled admissible a complaint filed by 28 citizens who are trying to sue Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen for having adopted the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum.
In a surprising ruling, the country's top constitutional judges allowed the plaintiffs to pursue their case against Mr Rasmussen for breach of the constitution. The Supreme Court found that the 28 plaintiffs have a "requisite legal interest in having their claims verified." The group of professors, actors, writers and euro-sceptic politicians mounting the constitutional challenge argues that the Lisbon Treaty does indeed hand over parts of national sovereignty to Brussels and therefore a referendum should have taken place.
Read article at euobserver.com
January 11, 2011
EU financial watchdog 'systemically sabotaged fraud investigations'
The EU's financial watchdog has systemically "sabotaged" investigations and caved into intimidation from countries including France and Italy to cover up fraud, according to a senior official.
Maarten Engwirda, a former Dutch member of European Court of Auditors for 15 years, who retired 10 days ago, has alleged that abuse of EU funds was swept under the carpet by an auditing body that was supposed to expose wrongdoing.
"There was a practice of watering down if not completely removing criticism," he told the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper yesterday. Slim Kallas, the European Commission's vice-president, who was responsible for anti-fraud measures from 2004 to 2010 and who is now the EU transport chief, is accused of putting "heavy pressure" on investigators to tone down findings of abuse.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)