August 27, 2009
It may be Thursday already, but it’s not too late to tell you about an op-ed by Richard Waghorne in Saturday’s Irish Daily Mail, which is important food for thought in the Irish Lisbon debate – now in full swing.It notes that, while people have been ve…
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The Parliament.com website is taking a welcome new look at the fact that the team of EU Commissioners due to leave office in a few months’ time will each walk away with more than £1 million in pensions and perks alone. This is on top of the more than …
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Easy to see why this google alert for “Lisbon Treaty” went into my junk mail this morning – European Voice runs a story with the headline:”People of Ireland, vote ‘Yes’ for sex with Eastern Europeans”.Sketch-writer Nick McGinley has apparently written …
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August 26, 2009
The Economist’s Charlemagne today claims that by opposing the incredible 60 percent rise of the British contribution to the EU budget, the Conservative Party is turning its back on “such ideas as promoting free trade, the pursuit of economic growth and…
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