Lisbon Treaty Replay

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A Commission of One
The longstanding plan to reduce the size of the European Commission has just succeeded beyond all expectations, but not quite as intended. Legally there is now only one Commissioner, José Manuel Barroso, who was recently re-appointed as President according the procedure laid down in the treaties. The five year terms of the ...

The NHS Controversy
There are a few different ways of approaching this: What did Hannan actually say?  Was he suggesting abolishing the NHS or was he saying to the Americans, do not introduce the particular British system of heath care? Hannan said in his column in the Telegraph: “There is a difference between saying that the ...

Conservative Eurosceptic MPs receive CAP payments
Responding to the news that three leading Conservative Eurosceptic MPs receive CAP payments totalling  £526,547 for their farms, Brendan Donnelly, treasurer of the European Movement, said: "I think there is an irony, an inconsistency that there are some high profile Conservatives who benefit greatly from the workings of the common agricultural ...

German judgement is a call to action against the EU’s democratic deficit
EUobserver / [Comment] German judgement is a call to action against the EU's democratic deficitThe Karlsruhe Court effectively finds that the Lisbon Treaty would increase the EU's widely acknowledged democratic deficit if its ratification is not linked to the adoption of internal procedures at Member State level such as to ...

MP Expense Claims
I thought it might a good idea to look into the expense claims of my own local MP Phillip Dunn Ludlow Conservative. The last time I met him he was doing a run around his constituency and stopped to say he could not possible go by my house without giving me ...