Sandals or jackboots?
Last Thursday’s blog post about Daniel Hannan’s view of Iceland has provoked a response. The Conservative MEP has replied in his blog on the Telegraph website (read it here). Aside […]
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A politician thinking small
Conservative anti-European MEP Daniel Hannan writes from Iceland that, rather than bailing out the banks, they should have been allowed to crash. The apparent health of the Icelandic economy is
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“There is going to be trouble”
Political participants and commentators from all parts of the political spectrum have been left astounded by the events of the past week. Who can really understand the implications of the
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The legitimacy of Lisbon
In a debate at University College London yesterday, the argument came forth from the anti-European speakers that the Lisbon treaty was illegitimate in a way that was not true of
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Odd position for a Eurosceptic
Further to the previous blog entry about the calls for a general election, I find this further example, from the House of Commons on 16 June: Mr. Nigel Evans (Ribble
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What would democracy in the EU look like?
Irish entrepreneur Declan Ganley launched his new eurosceptic political party Libertas in the UK today. He intends to have candidates in each of the 27 member states, apparently, but on
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A blanket of whiteness
As a blanket of whiteness spreads across the country, so too do strikes and protests against the employment of foreign workers. The anti-European free market right is enjoying the discomfort
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Do the eurosceptics really want the veto?
Tory eurosceptic MP Daniel Kawczynski suggested, in the House of Commons yesterday, that Greece should not be allowed to veto the accession by Macedonia to the EU while the issue
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Let the people decide
A big victory for the pro-Europeans at a debate on Monday evening. Lembit Öpik and I defeated some Eurosceptics at University College London on “The house believes in a federal
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Giscard says opt-out
A Eurosceptic thinktank, Global Vision, is holding a conference today to press the case for Britain to remove itself from the heart of the EU. They want a trading relationship,
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