Was Tony Blair arguing for a Charter opt out or not?Following five years of wrangling the European Commission has finally given in to requests from the European Citizen Action Service and the European Ombudsmen and released documents concerning th…
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charter, criminal justice, EU law, Lisbon Treaty, Tony Blair |
July 7, 2011
(long time passing)A few days late, but this is a brilliant piece from Mary Ann Sieghart – one of the heroes from the old no to the euro campaigns in the UK – writing in the Independent earlier in the week. Taking no prisoners, Mary Ann settles the sco…
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bail-out, broken promises, chris huhne, emu, euro, euromyths, eurozone, ken clarke, nick clegg, Tony Blair |
September 1, 2010
Tony Blair’s memoirs, released earlier today, reveal that while Bush junior was in the White House he, like many others, found the EU hard to get his head around. The Telegraph reports that in a 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Bush was confused by the pres…
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June 22, 2010
While today’s emergency budget in the UK provided many talking points for the media at large – it also provided new information for those with an interest in the UK’s ever-increasing contribution to the European budget *(courtesy of one T.Blair).H…
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