President of the EU Commission is very concerned about Democracy freedoms and the wishes of the people. EU chief concerned about Zimbabwe election delay European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says he is very concerned by delays in the release of results of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. He told reporters in Brussels that one thing should [...]
Concern expressed over EU Democracy
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: Brussels, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Robert Mugabe
Abolishing the Regions
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 [...]
Filed Under: Political Humbug Tagged With: Brussels, Consevative administration, Europe, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Hans-Gert Pöttering, John Redwood, Jose Manuel Barroso, Romano Prodi
Conservatives Plans at odds with EU ideals
John Redwood has a post ridiculing a glossy brochure sent to him and doubtless many others, by Margaret Hodge, entitled “Creating prosperity in every region: England’s Regional development” Agencies”. “She tells us the RDAs help to bring prosperity to all parts of England. Nowhere does she point out that the reigonal disparities have grown substantially [...]
We Should Not Fool Ourselves
In an interview with Bild am Sonntag newspaper Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European commission, has said. the EU constitution in its current form will not come into effect. “We should not fool ourselves. It’s important now to maintain its values, its principles and its substance. Above all, we have to improve the decision-making [...]
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Good News Bad News
“The constitutional treaty is no more – it is a diseased dead parrot,” UK home secretary John Reid said http://euobserver.com/9/23024 Finland ratified the EU constitution on Tuesday adding one more country to the list of member states having given the nod of approval to a document whose fate is still undetermined. European Commission president [...]
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The EU Thinks Talking Equates to Accountability
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday as he reaffirmed that improving regulation is a core policy. “Regulating for the pleasure of regulating does not make sense,” No it does not make sense, but that is not what is happening, what the EU regulation are about is moving power from the member state [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: European Commission, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Politics Britain
Europe`s politicians won`t take no for an answer
A comment in by Alan Ruddock: in the Times If Ahern and Jacques Chirac, the French president, or Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, or Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, are genuinely serious about bringing the people of Europe closer to the EU, then they have to start to take notice of [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: Europe, European Commission, European Union, Gerhard Schroder, Jose Manuel Barroso, The Times
So why bother to hold the Referendum
Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and holder of the rotating EU presidency, told Le Soir newspaper in Belgium that he would act swiftly on Sunday night if France voted No. He would appear with the head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, and demand that all 25 EU nations complete the process [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: European Commission, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Juncker, Phillipe Esnol, political solution
Barroso motion torpedoed by MEP`s
As expected the MEPs have torpedo motion of censure against Barroso, European Parliament political leaders blasted the campaign to censure Jose Manuel Barroso over the Spiros Latsis cruise, calling the motion “indecent” and accusing its authors of political vandalism. Barroso said the motion “crossed the line between democracy and demagoguery” and was aimed at undermining [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: European Parliament, European Union, Francois Le Bail, Hans-Gert Poettering, Jose Manuel Barroso, Nigel Farage, proper accounting, Spiros Latsis, travel allowances
Dutch No campaign takes government to court over funding
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he is “extremely concerned” about the latest polls both in the Netherlands and France, where 52 percent of voters are set to vote against the constitution on 29 May. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said “The government is very motivated, we are in the final phase and [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: European Commission, independent referendum commission, Jan-Peter Balkenende, Jose Manuel Barroso
Germany not to raise contribution to EU budget
Eurealist :: Main Page: “Germany not to raise contribution to EU budget by Eurealist on April 15, 2005 04:25PM (BST) Xinhua – English BERLIN, April 14 (Xinhuanet) — German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said here on Thursday his country will not raise its contribution to the European Union’s budget. Speaking to reporters after meeting European Commission [...]
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EU Elite Blames French Elite for treaty problems
Jose Manuel Barroso blames the French elite for treaty problems The president of the European Commission yesterday launched a scathing attack on the ruling classes in France for allowing public opinion there to turn against the draft European constitution. He demanded the political leaders of France “do their job”, and “make an effort to explain [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: Europe, European Commission, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Paris, Tim Worstall, Yes camp
Missing the point again
MENAFN: France has vowed to fight a European Union plan to create a single job market for professionals such as doctors throughout the 25 member countries. In Paris, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called the draft law that would erase borders for such professions as medicine, law and architecture ‘unacceptable,’ the International Herald Tribune said [...]
Our man in Brussles Speaks
Latest Forex News – FXstreet.com: “Writing in the Financial Times, Mandelson said the revised economic reform programme unveiled by commission president Jose Manuel Barroso would mean greater market liberalisation, efficiency, innovation and productivity as well as the removal of obstacles to higher employment ‘This, in particular, is why Britain — traditionally hostile to ‘Brussels’ — [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: Brussels, Europe, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, the Financial Times
Gone Native
News: “Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, is involved in his first dispute with the Government since taking up his post after backing calls for a multibillion-euro boost to the EU budget. Mr Mandelson has defied British demands for a freeze on EU spending by supporting plans by his new boss, Jose Manuel Barroso, the [...]
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Mandelson, Tony Blair
So Who Rules Britian ?
News: “Wanted by Brussels: A UK Productivity Tsar By Stephen Castle in Brussels 02 February 2005 Britain will gain a new competitiveness and productivity ‘tsar’ to help boost growth and job creation, under plans to be published today to revitalise the European economy. The post would be drawn from the ranks of government ministers and [...]
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“Ten Million Dollar Affair.”
“Ten Million Dollar Affair.” One of the seven Ex Communists in the new EU Commision is also a convicted criminal, Siim Kallas, the commissioner from Estonia, was convicted in 2001 of providing false information during his trial for the theft of $10m from the Central Bank of Estonia. Denis MacShane “I welcome the European Parliament’s [...]
Filed Under: Latest Posts Tagged With: Central Bank of Estonia, Denis MacShane, Europe, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Neil Kinnock, Siim Kallas
