After series of one-on-one meetings with fellow EU leaders, Mr Blair said he was “making progress” on Britain’s four “red line” issues: that the new treaty should not affect Britain’s ability to determine its own labour laws, foreign policy, domestic law on issues such as tax and benefits and criminal and jurisprudence legislation. A Government [...]
My 50 Reasons to loathe the EU
March 25, 2007 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Bonde’s briefing and new EU Constitution
December 19, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Angela Merkel at Fogh. The German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting an embattled Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday the 19th December 2006. Fogh has not been very informative about what was really going on in the democracy projects in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merkel now wants Fogh’s “yes” to a new democracy [...]
Veto on criminal justice
September 13, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Abbreviated, and in particular the editor has removed the quotation from the official government pamphlet delivered to every household during the 1975 referendum campaign: “The Minister representing Britain can veto any proposal for a new law or a new tax if he considers it to be against British interests”. As I’ve pointed out in my [...]
The EU Arrest Warrant
September 29, 2005 By 1 Comment
British acceptance of EU legislative powers – Comment – Times Online: “From Mr Mark Wallace Sir, Mr David Stephen (letter, September 24) is in my view dangerously optimistic in his assertion that the European arrest warrant is an unmitigated triumph for “trust†between EU member states over “civil libertiesâ€. Contrary to the beliefs of the [...]
Beware of Cherry Pickers
June 10, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Dr Liam Fox MP Shadow Foreign Secretary writes in the Times the constitution is effectively dead. It is not a setback, but a chance to create a new direction. But warns that we should beware of cherry pickers, and chooses three areas which he says will be on the cherry picking agenda. Arguing that the [...]
Yet another EU Professor
June 3, 2005 By 1 Comment
It is quite amazing how people who supposedly understand the constitution make very basic mistakes and then build a whole argument on that mistake, of course being built on an incorrect assumption the argument then fails. A case in point was a letter to the FT last week written by no less a dignitary than [...]
Brevity favours the Liars
February 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Brevity favours the Liars Reading the headline in The Telegraph “How the EU will change your lives†I expected the article to be a reasonably comprehensive description of the innumerable of ways the EU will affect the people and the government of the United Kingdom. From undermining the power of the Westminster government, and our [...]
Harmonising Criminal Law
February 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Harmonising Criminal Law The “FOC Myth†series did not mention the fact that under the new EU Constitution, all Member States will have to respect judgments handed down by other national legal systems within the EU. At the same time, membership of the EU will entail an obligation to treat all European citizens “in a [...]
Corbett I
January 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Why Eurosceptics should vote for the Constitution Richard Corbett is a UK Labour MEP. He was also co-rapporteur for the European Parliament’s report on the European Constitution. Richard Corbett, I find it sad that much of the debate about the proposed new EU constitution is couched in the usual hyperbole. Eurosceptic parts of the press [...]
The EU arrest Warrant
December 27, 2004 By Leave a Comment
The EU arrest Warrant entered into force in January 2004 in eight EU member states – Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. However, several other states have been very slow to adopt it. Perhaps the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus had a good reason that others are reluctant to [...]
The importance of Trial by Jury II
December 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment
But why is it so very important that we retain the right to jury trial, why is Sir Robin wrong to suggest that Juries must have no right to acquit in defiance of the law or in disregard of the evidence, and to suggest that an accused may not be tried by a jury. To [...]
Britain Safeguard against Corpus Juris
December 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment
The Amsterdam Treaty There is in Article 209a, a one-line statement that “such measures shall not concern the application of national criminal law and the national administration of justiceâ€. The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, during the Amsterdam treaty debate, told British MPs that it was relying entirely on this safeguard to stop Corpus Juris. [...]
Corpus Juris and the policy of deceit.
December 11, 2004 By Leave a Comment
On 13th April 1999 the EU Parliament voted to “welcome” the introduction of Corpus Juris Corpus Juris was first introduced as a concept almost exatly 2 year before when it was announced at a Seminar of the Spanish European Institute. Like all EU confidence tricks the Corpus Juris was introduced as something other than its [...]
Labour Spin on Law
November 29, 2004 By Leave a Comment
The Headline in the Telegraph “Pledge to decriminalise environment offences†caught my eye, I thought, if our Tone is going to start decriminalising offences, would not that cause some problems with the EU, which has competence on environmental matters. One naturally assumes that to decriminalise is to make something that is a criminal offence, not [...]
