April 30, 2010
Nick Clegg didn’t exactly come across as coherent in last night’s debate between party leaders when David Cameron challenged him on the fact that the Lib Dem manifesto still calls for the UK to join the euro.This was the exchange:David Cameron: “pe…
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April 28, 2010
The European Commission’s reaction to the Standard & Poor’s credit rating downgrade of Greece to “junk” status: “Who is Standard & Poor’s by the way?” asked Amadeu Altafaj, the spokesman for E.U. Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli R…
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April 27, 2010
Just a quick note on the second televised leaders’ debate in the UK last week – in which something struck us about Nick Clegg’s description of his previous working experience (see here 11’20 in):“I worked in my previous life, before going into politi…
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April 26, 2010
The Lib Dems’ recent rise is rightly leading to closer scrutiny of the party’s policies. Their support for the UK entering the euro, was correctly described as “folly” by the Sunday Times. If it wasn’t right to join the euro when the UK was experiencin…
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April 23, 2010
In the category “too much information”, we bring you a story from former Labour Europe Minister and über -europhile Denis MacShane. Keen as ever to convince the world that a Tory victory in the general elections will end Western civilization as we…
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April 21, 2010
With the election only two weeks away now the country has turned poll-crazy as we rate the stars, ahem, politicians with every twist and turn of the election horse track.The latest intrigue from the poll-vine comes from an interesting study released in…
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April 19, 2010
It’s always amusing to witness journalists and politicians with euro-enthusiastic tendencies having a go at parts of the British press for being biased on Europe, while at the same time being guilty themselves of some seriously one-sided and dubious re…
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April 16, 2010
Although Europe has been seemingly neutralised as an election issue, and the main political parties have reached a rather settled position on the Lisbon Treaty, it does not give them license to play fast and loose with the facts of what the Treaty mean…
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April 13, 2010
As readers are hopefully aware, EU regulation has been on our minds for the last few months as we put together our latest research on the ever increasing cost it has placed on the UK economy over the last eleven years. Old habits die hard and we were t…
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April 12, 2010
Eurozone finance ministers yesterday agreed on a €30bn loan commitment to Greece over the next year, as part of a three-year commitment, with the IMF potentially coughing up another €10-15 billion. The interest rate on the loans is set at five p…
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