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 [...]
Europe is dead
February 28, 2006 By Leave a Comment
No only Joking! Italy appeals to EU over merger and argues that Europe is dead The French merger of Suez SA and Gaz de France is said to be causing consternation in Italy. An editorial in the WSJ argues that the French “head-on challenge to the single market calls into question the raison d’etre behind [...]
Telegraph News Lessons on Europe proposed by French
February 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Lessons on Europe proposed by French: “Lessons on Europe proposed by French By David Rennie in Paris (Filed: 27/02/2006) Lessons on the European Union to give secondary school pupils in all 25 member states an ‘apprenticeship’ as Europeans, are being proposed by France. The lessons would be based on a standardised [...]
French Media with egg on its face
June 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I have lost count of the times I have read that British Eusceptisism is fed by the disreputable anti-EU British press, which by the way is owned by devious foreigners press barons, who for their own unspecified reasons will do anything and make up any myth in order to further their again unspecified nefarious designs. [...]
Background report: Constitution for a military,European core
April 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Eurealist :: Main Page: “a far reaching deprivation of power of the majority of member states is to be established. In the event that Berlin and Paris prevail with their intentions The national defense arsenals would become the responsibility of the German-French power cartel which, as the center of an exclusive military ,,European core’ would [...]
EU economy is a threat to British prosperity
March 26, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Scotsman – Opinion – Weak state of EU economy is a threat to British prosperity AS SHERLOCK Holmes often explained to Dr Watson, the most important clue is often the thing that did not happen. This week, the general election campaign covered everything from school meals to Tory spending plans, from abortion to Iraq. [...]
French Parliament Tackles EU Constitution
February 28, 2005 By 1 Comment
Just to drive home the point made in the previous post, why is it that if the EU Constitution is not the basis of a European State the French need to change the French Constitution to make way for the EU Constituion? ABC News: French Parliament Tackles EU Constitution PARIS Feb 28, 2005 — France’s [...]
Straws Myths
February 18, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Myth One: Britain would lose control of Foreign Policy It strengthens Britain’s influence in the world FOC Myth We won’t be forced to follow an EU policy through ‘loyal cooperation’. FOC Myth The EU can’t take our seat at the UN FOC Myth Towards a single EU foreign policy? Gerard Baker argues in the Times [...]
EU at the Crossroads
February 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Eurealist Files: “PARIS — This is a year of crucial decisions, when the European Union can close ranks and look forward to further expansion or see its precarious unity shattered. France, because of its size and role in the EU, holds the key to the future with a referendum on the proposed European Constitution — [...]
France protects national champion
February 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
France riles EU regulator BRUSSELS The European Commission threatened on Tuesday to take France to court to demand the return of subsidies for the troubled engineering giant Alstom, alleging that Paris had failed to respect conditions for the company’s bailout. . “None of the list of measures which were supposed to be taken have been [...]
The Times has picked up on the Rapid Reaction Farce
January 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Times has picked up on the Rapid Reaction Farce I posted here THE European Parliament is to establish a “rapid reaction force†to address what it considers to be unfair criticism of the European constitution in any EU member state. http://eurealist.blogspot.com/2005/01/rapid-reaction-farce.html The move has angered opponents of the proposed constitition, who say that the [...]
Operations Center
January 17, 2005 By Leave a Comment
with thank to Anne Palmer Operations Center BRUSSELS – Berlin and Paris have come to an agreement with London concerning the future leadership structures for military operations by the European Union. Thus, within the military staff of the EU, the core for a ,,center of operations,” which is to serve as headquarters for independent EU [...]
c’est un miracle!
January 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
North Sea Diaries – A weblog of European politics In 2007, Jacques Chirac’s presidency will come to an end. At which point, his immunity to criminal prosecution will lapse, and he’ll be prosecuted for vote-rigging, inventing fictional jobs in the Paris city hall, accepting corrupt party finances, and a host of other unpleasant activities. It [...]
Gold plated arguments
January 12, 2005 By 2 Comments
Loose the Delusion Gold plated arguments As I have previously mentioned it is the little words we need to be watch out for; Loose the Delusion has grabbed a report from the British Chambers of Commerce to argue that the “New†2002/3 regulations we are faced with are mainly from our own government and not [...]
French victory over English
January 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
French hail victory over English From Charles Bremner in Paris TRADE unions won a victory in France’s struggle to fend off the English language yesterday when a company was ordered to provide French translations of essential documents. Employees of General Electric Medical Systems told a Versailles court that the firm’s policy of using English-only manuals [...]
A Free Trade Area?
September 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Europhiles would like us all to believe the EU is no more than a benign club of nation states who have chosen to come together to form a trading area between themselves, a free trade area that each sovereign nation state controls for its own benefit, only agreeing to those rules which suit it. Those [...]
