March 28, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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How much happier is it possible to make our anti-EU chums than this little story, just a few days after the EU’s damp squib birthday celebrations? Mass dawn raids over EU ‘Mafia links’ More than 40 dawn raids were carried … Continue reading
March 25, 2007
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Welcome to the inaugural Euroblog roundup on this, the 50th anniversary weekend of the Treaty of Rome. Now, how this is normally going to work is as follows: every other Sunday the Euroblog roundup will compile the best blog posts … Continue reading
March 22, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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I know that as a good pro-EU type I should find this pathetically awful farce depressing, rather than amusing, but it’s tricky. The Berlin Declaration, for those of you who are lucky enough not to know, is the agreement German … Continue reading
March 21, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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So, at least, thinks Maurice Faure – France’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1956-8, and the last surviving original signatory of the Treaty of Rome. In an interview with Spanish paper El Pais, as the 50th anniversary of the … Continue reading
March 20, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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2007 Inflation 2.8% Unemployment 5.4% 25 years of solid economic growth (the longest sustained period of economic growth for 150 years), currently at 2-3% 5th or 6th largest GDP in the world 1973/4 (the year Britain joined what is now … Continue reading
March 19, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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Don’t know how I hadn’t spotted this, but the Economist’s new EU-blog Certain Ideas of Europe (featuring the occasional contribution from blogging Economist journo Edward Lucas) has been going for a couple of months now, and is – as you’d … Continue reading
March 18, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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Two days ago marked the 100th anniversary of parliamentary democracy in Finland. Today they’ve got an election. Polls close in about an hour and a half, so it’s about to get interesting. (Well, possibly…) Thanks to the way this is … Continue reading
March 18, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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(A quicky, as I’m still insanely busy…) With the overdue exit, stage centre-right, of Chirac it looks like France could have its first change in forever of fundamentally shifting its relations with its fellow EU member states. Pretty much since … Continue reading
March 15, 2007
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And then he flew a flying saucer – fuelled only by the power of CHEESE – all the way to Pluto, where he made merry with the happy band of six-legged elephants that inhabit the former planet for nigh on … Continue reading
March 11, 2007
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Ahhhh… Those were the days… And it all led to this: “our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Since the days of Halaka your city and your lands have been … Continue reading
March 10, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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1) A handy short explanation of why I’ve been writing about the EU constitution here a lot recently. 2) A new bilingual blog aggregator type thing from new(ish) French news channel France 24, designed to provide an insight into the … Continue reading
March 8, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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You thought David Cameron’s EU vision was full of platitudes and meaningless phrases? Check out those of Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett – oddly published in a Romanian newspaper, far out of sight of the British public… (via) Lots of guff … Continue reading
March 8, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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Looks like Dave’s finally making vague moves to lay out his approach to the EU in somewhat more clear terms than “we don’t like the EU much, but we won’t tell you quite how much” and “We’ll quit the biggest … Continue reading
March 7, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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1) Read Rachel 2) Be aware of the usually unjustified and frequently hurtful conspiracy theories, which will only escalate without full public disclosure 3) Sign