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I will be taking a short break flying out to Spain this afternoon, hope to visit the El Acebuchal later this week to see the renovations for myself and do a post for my new food blog other than that I hope to do a little bit of swimming little bit of reading quite [...]

This time it is 123 million euros to Togo
Concluded in Lome under the 10th European Development Fund, the agreement was signed Friday by EU Commission Head of Delegation Filiberto Sebregondi and Togolese Cooperation, Development and Planning Minister Gilbert Bawara.
46 percent of this money is aimed at boosting the economy through funding infrastructure projects.
Speaking during the [...]

Of course there is no chance that the EU will take the slightest notice of the facts on climate change as reported by Booker this morning.
as earth is not warming there is no need for international action to face the consequences.
The EU has far too much invested in the industry to allow little things like [...]

The EU is still splashing our money about, lasts time it was for health spars in the Caribbean, this time as announced by Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education Dr. Hany Hilal, the EU is to donate an 11 million euro grant to Egypt. Dr Hilal Said the funds would be used to enhance Egyptian [...]

The Lisbon Treaty gives the EU power in civil and criminal law, justice and policing, anyone thinking that this will have little effect should be warned that the EU is already preparing the ground for harmonisation of civil and criminal law procedures throughout the 27 member states.
The EU tells us that almost three quarters of [...]

The EU is already vying with its member states over the concept of citizenship something which is vital for the EU to progress towards its eventual goal. In order to maintain its advantage in the citizenship
a policy of prohibiting dual citizenship between member states would be seen as unreasonable and opposed to the spirit of [...]

One thing which is apparent is that the EU by gifting a series of fundamental rights to its citizens, that also include what can best be termed as social rights,- ie, Rights that have a costs association health care housing etc. and by including freedom of movement to all of its citizens.

Is creating an internal engine for more integration that the states themselves will be compelled to acknowledge and find difficult to impede.

Those who would suggest that the EU is not destined to become the United States of Europe as originally envisioned by the founding fathers of the project, might like to answer one simple question. If that were not the case, then why on earth do we continually have new treaties thrust upon us? No sooner [...]

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu has issued a statement telling the EU that it is not amused by the EU interfering in internal Chinese’s matters. In answerer to the resolution on Tibet passed by the EU Parliament which urged European Union leaders to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics unless [...]

Council spy cases hit 1,000 a month

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Kissinger believes EU losing will to go to war
PARIS - The reluctance of Europe’s leaders to risk soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan is rooted in the emergence of the European Union and the decline of nationalism and patriotism here, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in an essay published Tuesday.
I have not read this [...]

Remember the government road pricing scheme that was all the rage last year, but was then suddenly and quietly dropped for no good reason. Well I can confidently predict that it will soon be removed from back burner.
News today EU Transport Ministers gave their final approval for the Galileo satellite navigation project almost ensures that [...]

Thanks for the chuckle!
So, using this new scientific method, I have made some predictions of my own:

Based on the last 5 years worth of data, the number of people killed in Iraq will increase to 10 billion over the next century and the number of [...]

“It’s too early to tell because the data is incomplete, but it looks like there’s been maybe a 1% rise in emissions in 2007 compared to 2006,”
Oh well what do you expect!
European Commission authorises Polish State Aid for coal industry
Perhasps given the last item?
Belgium issues early veto against Blair bid [...]

The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions.
Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits [...]

NGO Monitor has released a draft report this week examining European Union (EU) funding of political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The fifty page report, ‘Europe’s Hidden Hand’ reveals for the first time that between 2005 and 2007, the EU provided tens of millions of Euros from public money to NGOs whose activities directly contradict [...]

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And moving swiftly on from any further debate about the Lisbon Constitution.
Already well entrenched in education the EU decides to step up its centralisation of education, information, and knowledge.
It has been agreed spring summit, that the EU should create a fifth freedom the Freedom of Knowledge to be added to the four original principles [...]

How can hardcore anti-EU types maintain that reform is impossible yet simultaneously believe that the EU is heading towards a superstate - which would, in itself, be an immense reform?”