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From the Right Side

Commentary from a right-of-centre perspective.

A Black Day for Europe

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

A black day for Europe:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, the final step in its ratification.

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Europe's Tentacles Spread Ever Wider

Saturday, 31 January 2009

The European Union now wants to bring recreational fishing within the ambit of the Common Fisheries Policy! Excerpts from the relevant regulation are here. You can sign the online petition protesting against this here.

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posted by Michael, 17:24 | link | 0 comments |

European Union Accounts

Tuesday, 14 November 2006

The House of Lords may be happy with EU accounting procedures, but Marta Andreasen - who was suspended by the European Commission in 2002 (before being sacked in 2004) after going public with worries that its accounting system was open to fraud - is less charitable:
These changes of more than €20 billion that have surfaced in some chapters would certainly cause heads to roll and the prosecution of the directors if they happened in the private sector.
Who do you believe? Difficult choice.

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