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The EU is not a defence alliance in fact this is quite clear as Article 17 of the treaty states the EU "shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy" of a member state.
But articles 11 and 16 also state that EU countries "shall refrain from any action which is contrary [...]

John Redwood has replied to some comments about abolishing the regions;

I want to see all unelected regional government abolished.
The Conservatives will not be abolishing the three elected regional governments in the UK that have been endorsed by referendum, nor the elected tier in Northern Ireland if that is in operation.
The fact that Brussels likes regional [...]

“We are convinced that devolution and multi-level governance are among the best routes towards European integration,” the Rome declaration states.

“We are determined to support the heads of state and government in bringing the constitutional process and the necessary reform…to a rapid conclusion, without losing the ground gained by and for local and regional authorities.”

The points in the Independent are mainly irrelevant to the existence of the EU - Cannot the Europhile press and Europhiles generally come up with something other than this same old lies and propaganda that has been challenged so many times in the past that it has become boring to even produce the evidence to [...]

On this day when the Euro enthusiast are gathering to celebrate the 50th birthday of the European Project by patting themselves on the back for a job well done, whilst in the real world the real people of the European nation states have indicated in recent polls that they are not as enthused with the [...]

In order to set the scene; a few years ago Steve a friend bought a villa just outside the little Andalucia town of Competa which lies a few kilometres from Nerja up in the mountains on the edge of the Natural Park of the Tejeda and Almijara mountain ranges.
When they sold their business and [...]

Just for those who still like to belive the EU is somehow democratic because the Commision is only after all a glorified civil service at the behest of the member states through the Council.
Senior EU officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Brussels will table a piece of legislation which would force [...]

hese once great political parties no longer represent different values, and their claim to stand in opposition to each other has become false.

The truth is that they now fundamentally agree on almost every one of the great issues of our time: foreign policy, the role of the state, the level of taxation and so forth. Where there still are disagreements, these tend to be artificial and largely rhetorical.

A post on Conservative Home about the refusal of by Salisbury District Council to allow Ted Heath’s wish that his house be opened to the public as a museum has cause a bit of to do.
Of course the decision by the council has nothing to do with Heath’s term as Prime minister when he took [...]

Visitors from Mars would be bemused not only by the EU, but also by David Cameron’s policy on the EU.

Doing a bit of Surfing based on my own draft folder in which I put links that to posts and article and sites which grab my interest, I came across this letter on the Labour Movement for Europe Site
Written by an Administrator and subsequently locked to prevent any chance that someone might [...]

A Tangled Web posts that 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row. So it would seem to add to the evidence that the long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both [...]

Christopher Booker informs readers of his Notebook in the Telegraph that “In terms of meeting the EU’s targets, the moment when waste disposal counts as “recycling” comes when it is collected and registered for that purpose.”

After that it can be and in many areas, often is simply dumped in landfill sites, there would [...]

According to his Telegraph blog,a senior EU Commission official admitted to Daniel Hannan this week, that there are five countries where he and his colleagues are determined to avoid a referendum, I assume on the EU Constitution, they are Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Of course all five could [...]

In the last post I suggested the reason that the EU wanted to introduce its own Charta of Fundamental Rights was had more to do with the advancement of the political powers of its own institutions than any real concern that human rights were deficient in most EU States.
In fact the introduction of [...]

Reacting to the News that the European Union has this week opened its Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna with the stated purpose of collecting data on violations of the EU`s Charter of Fundamental Rights, provide advice to the EU and its member states and to raise public awareness.
The Times points out that many believe the [...]

According to Le Figaro, Nicolas Sarkozy has said that a “simplified treaty” would be necessary for the correct “functioning of the institutions” of the EU.
 
He explained that the abolition of national vetoes in EU decision-making was essential, arguing that “It is inconceivable that a single member state, indeed even two, should be able [...]