Archive for the 'EU hypocrisy' Category :

A vacuous slogan?

Posted by Open Europe blog team on 04/02/10

The European Parliament today held a hearing entitled “Unity in Diversity”, one of the EU’s more hypocritical slogans, on the role that religious belief should play in society after ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.”Unity in diversity” is one of thos…

Infuriating and fatal

Posted by Open Europe blog team on 08/01/10

Over on Comment is Free we take a look at the simmering EU pay dispute, which took a new turn yesterday when the Commission decided to take all 27 EU member states to the ECJ over their refusal to increase their offer of a 1.85% pay rise for EU officia…

Downright scandalous

Posted by Open Europe blog team on 06/01/10

We had been forced led to believe by the powers that be that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty (by hook and by crook) was meant to signal the end of the EU’s internal wrangling and launch the EU into a new decade more outward looking and firmly foc…

Do as I say, not as I do

Posted by Open Europe blog team on 04/01/10

In October EU ministers and heads of state met under the Swedish EU Presidency to discuss how to fight global poverty and combat climate change.The Swedish press reported over Christmas that the participants in these so-called European Development Days…

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