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British children, possibly as young as six, will be subjected to compulsory fingerprinting under European Union rules being drawn up in secret. The prints will be stored on a database which could be shared with countries around the world.
The prospect has alarmed civil liberties groups who fear it represents a ’sea change’ in the state’s [...]

In a letter to the FT Douglas Hurd argues that “David Cameron, with his colleagues, certainly understands that the tide of opinion in the European Union, including part of the European Commission, has swung in favour of liberal reform. (This has been clear to some of us for 15 years.) Like all compromises, his decision [...]

The idea behind this Rule of Experts is that the world is too complex for “common people” to understand, and that enlightened despots or, in their own eyes, educated experts, should run things. There are several catches to this theory. First of all is the contempt for ordinary citizens we find among many self-appointed intellectuals and “experts.” This impulse is, in fact, probably one of the most important challenges to the democratic system. The irony is that these “élite” groups honestly think that anybody opposed to their policies are “anti-democratic forces” and warn against their “populism,” what others call the will of the people.

This is one of the problems we face with EU regulations, because it turns upside down our basic English Common Law concept that anything is legal unless there is a law against it. Instead we have a situation that it is not legal unless the EU says it is. But I suppose you could always use the soft soap to wash your roses, that would be legal.

Trade and co-operation with our European neighbours are, of course, important, but as Norway and Switzerland ably demonstrate this can be easily achieved outside the EU.

We do not understand why the former Home Secretary should have apparently agreed with other G6 ministers to press forward with the "availability" principle and disregard data protection issues. This is contrary to the decision of the Member States in the Hague Programme, contrary to the advice of independent data protection authorities, inconsistent with what [...]

Sir - Dr Charles Tannock’s defence of the Conservatives’ spavined refusal to leave the EPP raises some interesting points (Letters, July 17). Leaving on one side the pleasures of what he refers to as "advantageous separate whipping" (which sounds kinda fun - may we be allowed some in the Lords?) could he explain why he [...]

So Jack Straw and couple of Scotish MP`s think that the Tories proposal for English votes on English matters is” utterly disgraceful, anti-British, unpatriotic” and “would lead inexorably to the break up of the United Kingdom.”

One is tempted to wonder why it is that those same people do not see a problem with allowing [...]

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat spokesman, on the new idea of super-Asbos
”a half-baked gimmick’ the Government is now suggesting using a system designed to deal with young tearaways to tackle international criminal rackets run by the Tony Sopranos of this world. It is based on a lazy view that the only way to [...]

Labour’s naturally statist and centralising tendencies mean that it is going down the dangerous road of trying to control the population to such an extent that it is systematically destroying hundreds of years of hard-won rights in a matter of months, in a futile and misdirected effort to win the so called “war on terror”.

Some time ago Eureferendum pointed out that there is a power battle going on at the heart of the EU between the Commision and the heads of states in the Council and that it would be a mistake to belive that the unelected Commision was the real power in the Union. (I paraphrase)

 Perhaps this [...]

It is shocking that, as a nation, we no longer have the power to decide our own trade policy

Our prosperity depends on being able to trade freely with North America, the emerging markets of China and India and other Commonwealth countries; indeed, we built our wealth by being world traders. It is not in our interests to be part of an inward-facing, backward-looking protection racket designed to prop up inefficient EU farmers and businesses.

Why did the British need the EU Constitution to explain where the Falkland Islands stood as regards THEIR overseas territories. Did ‘todays’ people not understand why we went to war, or so many of our young people lost their lives in so doing?

Perhaps this re-inforces my reasoning re the EU’s [...]

The problem is that they then offer up for public consumption some plan or other that conflicts with EU directives or EU treaties, they then ignore the conflicts, as if they, along with the EU did not exist, and refuse to offer an explanation of exatly how they will put into practice their plans which would either break an EU treaty or run directly against an EU directive, or tell us what they would do when the ECJ fines the UK for breaking an EU directive.

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Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
‘Parking Fine Mess’ case now set for the Court of Appeal…Judge Humpty Dumpty’s decision to be challenged.
A case came before the High Court 5th July last week, which could ultimately lead to every parking fine in the country being declared invalid…or, alternatively, the Metric Martyrs’ convictions being declared ‘unsafe.’
West Midlands [...]

EU Battle Groups were more a tool for political integration than to attain military objectives.

The Explanatory Notes to the Act: make it clear that originally the primary intention was to implement the EU Arrest Warrant:
“9. The Government set out its proposals to reform the law on extradition in a consultation document “The Law on
Extradition: A Review” in March 2001. It was the outcome of an [...]

Like Regional Assemblies, HIPs have nothing whatsoever to do with the EU. Oh, and I saw Heath on TV a few years ago,
arguing on the same lines as Yvette Cooper, below, about metrication - it was nonsense to suggest that it had anything
to do with Brussels, because we started before we joined the EEC. Why [...]

Graeme Wilson writes in the Telegraph that “The Tories attacked the BBC last night after it emerged that it has a £100 million loan deal with a European Union bank set up to promote European integration. 
 
The BBC confirmed last night that it had borrowed £25 million under the deal with the European Investment Bank [...]