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Friday, 09 November 2007
Death came slowly for Giovanna Reggiani. After a day spent shopping in
the boutiques of Rome, the 47-year-old stopped for coffee before
catching the train to join her husband for supper at their apartment in
the suburbs.Daily Mail.
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Friday, 02 November 2007
The brutal murder of a woman — allegedly by a homeless immigrant — as she
returned home from shopping has brought to a head the simmering anger in
Italy over the arrival of tens of thousands of impoverished Romanians. The Times.
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Thursday, 01 November 2007
Town halls have called today for a £250 million emergency fund to help local
authorities to cope with the increasing pressure on public services from
immigration.. The Times.
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Monday, 29 October 2007
The European Union (EU) should adhere to the
codes of conduct if they want to recruit health professionals from
developing countries. Buanews
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Monday, 22 October 2007
The shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, is battling to stop a
Conservative backbench revolt by Eurosceptic MPs who are demanding a
referendum on the new EU treaty, even if parliament ratifies it in the
next few months. The Guardian.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007
An overwhelming majority of people in the European Union’s five biggest
member states want the bloc’s treaty on institutional reform to be
submitted to national referendums, according to an opinion poll
published on Thursday. Financial Times.
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007
For far too long, the debate on Britain's relationship with the EU has
been polarised between those arguing for staying as a full member, come
what may, and those who would pull up stumps and walk away. But there
are, of course, perfectly attractive alternatives to these extremes. Ruth Lea writing in the Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The two-year political crisis in the European Union moved closer to
resolution Monday as differences narrowed over a treaty that would
replace the constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters. International Herald Tribune.
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Monday, 13 August 2007
Today, Labour has its anti-Europeanism under control, even if
pro-Europeanism is far from encouraged. It has been the Tories who have
embraced hostility to the EU as an ideology that can unite most
Conservative MPs. Now David Cameron has staked all on trying to raise
Europe as the defining issue in his contest with Gordon Brown. The Observer.
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Monday, 13 August 2007
George Osborne said on Sunday that a Conservative government would
“pick a fight” with Brussels to pull Britain out of a swath of European
agreements, to help achieve multi-billion pound cuts in red tape. Financial Times.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007
It is not the lie that offends so much as the brazenness. When Gordon
Brown claims that the EU's "Reform Treaty" is different from the
rejected constitution, he is making a claim so risible that an
eight-year-old would see through it.Sunday Telegraph.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007
"Trust the people" has been a clarion call down the ages. The results
are sometimes unpredictable and sometimes even uncomfortable for
politicians, but it is the ultimate bulwark of democracy. Sunday Telegraph.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, made an impassioned plea to
Conservative MPs and activists last night to hold their nerve and rally
behind David Cameron. Sunday Telegraph
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Friday, 27 July 2007
The prospect of Gordon Brown holding an early election rose last night
after David Cameron suffered his worst setback in the polls since
becoming Tory leader - Daily Mail.
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Friday, 27 July 2007
The EU leaders' attempt to foist a new constitution on their respective
electorates offers both Gordon Brown and David Cameron their first real
chance to impose their image on the politics of the post-Blair era - says Frank Field in the Daily Telegraph.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007
The number of immigrants in rural England has more than trebled in the past three years, a Government report reveals today - Evening Standard.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
It's back to Verdun. France and Germany can no longer share a currency,
or an aviation industry for that matter. Reverting to historical
patterns of behaviour, they are each embarking on policies that must
lead to bitter conflict and endanger monetary union.Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Two-thirds of Swedes want a referendum on the future European Union
treaty, according to a new poll, but the government has said it only
plans to ask parliament to vote on the text - says Radio Sweden.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
More than half of Danes, 52.7 percent, want to vote in a referendum on the future European Union treaty, a poll conducted by the Catinet Research institute shows.EU Business.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The revived EU constitution has deliberately been made "unreadable" to
help fend off demands for a referendum, according to the former Italian
prime minister, Giuliano Amato. Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Too many leaders across Europe ignore the will of the people, insist on
the resurrection of this undead constitution, and revert reflexively to
introverted protectionist policies - says Business Week.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Ryanair is threatening to sue the European Commission
for not taking action against governments which give aid to national
flag carriers that the Irish budget airline believes is illegal.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007
National governments should not
try to renegotiate the content of the reform treaty and renege on agreements
already made, José Manuel Barroso has warned – theParliament.com
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Britain was told yesterday that it was part of a new European empire — by the
Brussels bureaucrat who would be emperor. José Manuel Barroso, President of
the European Commission - the Times.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Brussels is slowly but steadily emerging as the regulatory capital of
the world. As much as some loathe it, it is a trend that business
leaders and policymakers from Tokyo to Washington - Financial Times.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Britain must withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the country from terrorism, according to Migration Watch's Sir Andrew Green - Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Police missed a string of opportunities to intercept four terrorists months before the botched suicide bomb attacks on July 21, it became clear last night - Daily Telegraph.
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Sunday, 08 July 2007
David Cameron has delivered to his party one large fizzing Alka-Seltzer
to banish the troubles of the past month. He said he was going to be
positive and his shadow cabinet changes are predominantly that. Cameron
has wisely picked not just for the person, but who they will be up
against - the New Statesman.
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Sunday, 08 July 2007
DOZENS of violent and prolific offenders have been released from prison early
to help solve the overcrowding crisis - The Times.
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Sunday, 08 July 2007
Voters will be given powers to decide how ten of millions of pounds
should be spent in their neighbourhood under radical government plans - The Guardian.
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Sunday, 08 July 2007
Many people must have rubbed their eyes in disbelief at Gordon Brown's promise to give "more power to
Parliament and the British people" while ruling out a referendum on the new EU treaty - which would take away a
lot more power from Parliament and the British people - says Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007
Gordon Brown came under renewed pressure to call a referendum on the
new European treaty last night after one of Britain's biggest unions
joined the campaign for a national vote - the Daily Telegraph
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Thursday, 05 July 2007
There is also the issue of the new European treaty, which some want to
slip through without a public vote - which would be an outrage, since
MPs have no moral right to give away the powers they only borrow from
their constituents in an election.- says Tony Benn in The Guardian
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007
For all his talk of citizens' juries, he still refuses to give the people a vote on the new constitutional treaty that
fundamentally changes our relationship with the EU, despite an explicit
manifesto pledge to do so. As a result, Mr Brown's high-flown talk
about a new constitutional settlement sounds like the expenditure of so
much hot air. Leader Daily Telegraph.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007
Gordon Brown yesterday ruled out holding a referendum on a new European
constitutional treaty as part of a wide-ranging package of reforms to
give "more power to Parliament and the British people". Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007
And if anyone embodies the change in the Government it is Jacqui Smith,
the first woman to be appointed Home Secretary. In the Commons yesterday,
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, praised the "calmness and
dignity" with which she had handled what must have been the most
difficult time of her career - gushes the Daily Telegraph.
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007
With Gordon Brown enjoying a significant “bounce” in the polls after
entering Number Ten last week, David Cameron had to show - quickly -
that he is every bit as ruthless as the new Prime Minister in the
pursuit of power - says the Daily Telegraph.
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Monday, 02 July 2007
After the great intuitive actor-manager, we now have the
anxious headmaster. Mr Brown is not smooth. There are no memorable phrases.
Rather, he is the concerned voice of authority, keen to reassure the public,
and not to be hurried, or panicked, into emergency action - says Peter Riddell in the Times.
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Monday, 02 July 2007
Gordon Brown drew a line under Tony Blair's "sofa government" yesterday
as he prepared to publish his proposals for restoring trust in politics - says Ben Brogan in the Daily Mail.
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Monday, 02 July 2007
Is a big financial crisis possible? Most certainly, yes. Would Labour
cop some flak? Undoubtedly. It has been hanging around with the
streetwalkers of the City for far too long. Would it cost Brown the
election? Hard to say. In terms of crisis, voters tend to go for
reassurance and solidity, someone like Roosevelt. Cameron doesn't
exactly come across as FDR. More Paris Hilton - says Larry Elliot in the Guardian.
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Monday, 02 July 2007
Mr Brown is walling
the Conservatives up in a prison of their own designing. He is
exploiting their self-imposed limitations on policy to the full. Where
they speak of handing power in the public services to the producers
("trust the professionals"), he talks about giving it to the consumers - says Janet Daley in the Daily Telegraph.
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Saturday, 30 June 2007
By agreeing to a referendum, Gordon Brown has a real opportunity to
show that he responds to popular sentiment - while distancing himself
from the Blair era of spin, showing that he is a man of integrity, and,
incidentally, shooting the Opposition's fox yet again. If he does not,
his premiership will start with retreat and obfuscation - says Global Vision's Ruth Lea in the Daily Telegraph.
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Friday, 29 June 2007
Having spent the early part of the week making the Lib Dems chase their
tails, Gordon Brown's clunking fist was aimed at the Tories yesterday - writes Iain Dale in the Daily Telegraph.
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Friday, 29 June 2007
David Cameron is fighting to contain unease among his party yesterday amid continuing rumours that Gordon Brown is seeking fresh defectors from the Conservatives. Daily Telegraph
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Friday, 29 June 2007
Gordon Brown will find his hands tied as it becomes clearer and clearer
that Tony Blair's European Union treaty deal resurrects the
constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters two years ago - Daily Telegraph
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
As Tony Blair's aides packed up their desks at No 10, Gordon Brown's chosen few settled in.
Every
member of "Team Gordon" has had to show endurance, talent and total
loyalty throughout years of virtually frozen relations between the
Treasury and No 10 - says the Daily Telegraph.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Gordon Brown's first
public words as prime minister are clearly all about showing that he
represents a brand new chapter but is still part of the same New Labour book.
Says Martin Kettle of the Guardian.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
President Sarkozy’s sleight of hand in removing one of the European Union’s
key objectives almost slipped through the final meeting of the 27 nations’
top diplomats preparing for the Brussels summit.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
The agreement forged by leaders of the
European Union on how to replace their ill-fated constitutional treaty
is not a pretty sight. It is littered with declarations and protocols
designed to meet the special needs of individual states, above all the
UK. The eventual treaty will not be a “simplified treaty”, although it
will have abandoned the trappings of a constitution - says the Financial Times
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
The new treaty doesn’t just extend the EU’s powers.
It turns it into a constitutional freak, a bureaucratic Frankenstein’s
monster without a shred of democratic legitimacy, which will destroy
what remains of our powers of self-government and make Mr Blair’s
apparent ‘opt-outs’ absurdly irrelevant - says the Daily Mail's brilliant Melanie Philips.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
The Polish government has compared
modern Germany to the pre-WWII Weimar Republic, continuing the hostile
rhetoric which erupted in the run-up to last week's EU summit and which
shows no sign of abating ahead of next month's formal negotiations on a
new treaty.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Here is a brief round up of recent press reports and comments on the EU constitution
The Sunday Telegraph splashed with a report that “Labour
has been plunged into a bruising referendum row after Tony Blair
secretly agreed the blueprint for a new European treaty... The
controversial manoeuvre, at the G8 summit in Germany,
came despite a promise to MPs by Margaret Beckett, the Foreign
Secretary, th
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Friday, 26 January 2007
Moves to strengthen Britain's borders may see more passengers checked by immigration staff before they even get on a plane, under new legislation.
A leading immigration expert said that he expects the Government's UK Borders Bill to include plans to introduce more passport checks by British staff based overseas.
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Friday, 26 January 2007
The European Union should break the impasse over its constitution by adding provisions reflecting the everyday concerns of its citizens rather than slim down the document to satisfy countries that rejected the current draft, Spain told a conference of EU countries Friday.
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Friday, 26 January 2007
The Government admitted today that it was “inevitable” that more criminals would be spared jail because of a lack of prison places.
Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said for the first time that a ministerial letter to judges warning of the jail crisis could have an impact on whether the courts lock up those convicted.
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Sunday, 07 January 2007
British motorists face the imposition of "European standard" speed and drink-drive limits under plans by Brussels to cut deaths on the road. The European Commission wants a continent-wide "harmonisation" of traffic laws. This could see many of the penalties currently set by national governments standardised across the EU.
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Thursday, 04 January 2007
More than three quarters of a million immigrants came to Britain in 2005 — far more than official figures admit, according to yet another report that exposes how the government misled the British public
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Thursday, 04 January 2007
New EU rules harmonising the size of our drinks could spell the end of the traditonal British pint of beer
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007
The alleged economic benefits to Britain of unprecedented levels of immigration are a myth, new figures show. Instead, they show only a ''very slight" gain of around 4p a week for each member of the native population — not enough to buy a Mars bar a month.
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Monday, 01 January 2007
Four Bulgarians were arrested by the Macedonian police last Wednesday and up to 300 automatic rifles and 33 120-millimetre mortars seized en route for Bulgaria.
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Monday, 01 January 2007
Young people and those on long term state benefits will have even less chance of getting back in to work as millions of Romanians and Bulgarians are free to enter Britain from today to work in the mushrooming black economy
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Monday, 01 January 2007
BRUSSELS politicians have drawn up proposals to create a European income tax which would leave Britons shelling out £510 a year to the superstate.
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006
Fake EU passports are now so easy to obtain that BBC Panorama reporter Shahida Tulaganova managed to purchase fake passports for 20 different EU countries and enter the UK twice using the bogus documents
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006
MIGRANTS hoping to settle in the UK are to be shown how to get the best out of Britain by claiming benefits, demanding equal rights, making full use of the health service and getting parental leave.
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006
The European Commission boasted it had given a billion euros of taxpayers money to help rebuild war torn Afghanistan, the largest part of which was spent on paying the salaries of civil servants
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Sunday, 03 December 2006
A multi-million pound, taxpayer funded, propaganda drive is underway to make a deeply sceptical British public learn to love the European Union.
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Friday, 01 December 2006
The influx of Eastern European workers to the UK has driven up rates of unemployment and house prices, leading economic experts warn.
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Thursday, 30 November 2006
Fake European Union passports are now so easy to obtain in Europe that an investigator was able to buy false passports for 20 EU countries and twice enter Britain with a bogus document, the BBC's Panorama programme will claim next week.
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Thursday, 30 November 2006
EU finance ministers could bring in exchange controls to counter the strength of the euro against the dollar and so save endangered Europrojects such as Airbus and bail out weaker economies such as Italy - and all without a UK veto.
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Thursday, 30 November 2006
Government rejects annual quotas on immigrants as unworkable - just weeks after Home Secretary John Reid said that was what he would do. Reid has admitted the Government has no idea the effects of migrants from Eastern Europe are having on education and housing.
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Thursday, 30 November 2006
Teams of prison officers were battling to regain control of the country’s largest immigration centre last night after more than 18 hours of rioting. The Harmondsworth immigration reception centre at West Drayton, West London has been extensively damaged and its 482 inmates are being evacuated.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Racist groups in Poland are forging links with Neo-Nazis in the UK, a race relations conference has been told. A Polish academic says that 'ghettos' are forming in some areas such as Ealing, in West London, where young Poles unable to find work are ready recruits to racist groups such as Combat 18.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Calculations by the Conservative show that council tax could rise to an average of £1500 a year, compared to just £700 in 1997.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006
David Cameron has been named Politician of the Year by the Political Studies Association for his work in transforming the Conservatives from political pariahs to opinion poll leaders.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Having messed up its first attempt to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union is now to urge further cuts that will impose even greater costs upon business.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Bickering between member states looks set to delay a reform of the euro VAT that is costing billions. Other members are stopping Germany and Austria from reforming their own VAT systems – so they are blocking other tax reforms.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Fears are growing that the second phase of the European Union's ineffective carbon trading scheme will increase costs to business and do little to reduce climate change.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006
A former Tory Minister warns that the massive and sudden increase in migrants could lead to a swelling underclass in Britain.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006
The European Commission is increasingly out of touch with the practicalities of running small businesses which are being strangled by red tape spewing out of Brussels, British business leaders claim.
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Monday, 27 November 2006
Civic leaders in Slough are warning that their health, welfare and social services are in crisis because of the large numbers of East Europeans who have mov