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The Telegraph tells us Lord Mandelson charged to the rescue and made up for 15 years of hurt and for his trouble he is now effectively the deputy prime minister, we also have another paid up and paid by EU backer in the cabinet in the form of Mrs Kinnock. But says the Telegraph Mandelson did not do this without a reason (Their man was close to the... [Read more of this review]

Open Europe informs us that  Europe Minister Caroline Flint admits she has not read the Lisbon Treaty During questions yesterday in Parliament, Europe Minister Caroline Flint admitted that she had not read the Lisbon Treaty in its entirety. Following a series of vague answers on the implications of the Treaty for European defence, Shadow Europe Minister... [Read more of this review]

It would seem that Clive Mathews is trying to argue that those of us who question the EU are simply nutty conspiracy theorists who base our abhorrence of this construct on 50 year old quotes of long dead fathers of the EU. As I said in a previous post that argument is the classic straw man, as we do not base our eurscetisism on the plans of Monnet and... [Read more of this review]

The Irish Times is reporting that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted that the Irish Government was not in a position to report “sufficient progress” to the Dáil on the guarantees sought from the EU on the Lisbon Treaty. So they have agreed to a new referendum based on these guarantees but cannot tell the Irish people exactly what those mean because... [Read more of this review]

The important point to remember about Jean Monnet is that as one of the early major promoters of a unified Europe, without any shadow of doubt he fully supported the aims and beliefs of the founding fathers of the European Project. These were that Europe should become one nation state along the same lines as the United States of America with one overarching... [Read more of this review]

I must confess that I had lost touch with Martin Coles of Ironies Too, I used to read his original Blog Ironies. Here Mr Coles has a blinder, the President of the EU parliament Hans-Gert Poettering, reacting angrily to the perceived insult to the EU metered out by Czech President Vaclav Klaus during his speech in the parliament this week, when 200 MEPs... [Read more of this review]

The Germany constitutional court has already set aside two days to hear one complaint about the Lisbon Treaty (10 and 11 February by conservative MP Peter Gauweiler who says the treaty undermines freedoms guaranteed in the German constitution. Now another complaint has been lodged by Markus Kerber, a commercial lawyer, Dieter Spethmann, a former chief... [Read more of this review]

I start from the position that one should never ever sign a legal document unless they are quite clear of the meaning of the document and what the effect of putting their signature to a legally enforceable document the will have in the event of a dispute between the parties. We are constantly told that this is the normal practice – do not sign... [Read more of this review]

House of Lords debates Friday, 15 December 2006 European Union (Information, etc.) Bill [HL] Lord Dykes (Liberal Democrat) Link to this | Hansard source My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. We have just had a most important and lengthy debate on a crucial subject, to be followed by an important but comparatively very modest... [Read more of this review]

Only in Brussels would the word Democracy by synonymous with an infectious disease; after the French and Dutch voted against the Constitution the series of referendums was halted to prevent the infection of rejection spreading to other countries. With the single exception of Luxemburg perhaps the most pro EU state where there was a massive lead for... [Read more of this review]