Friday 22 May 2009

Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Here are just a few of the things you could do before 1997 but can't now – many of them, it must be said, forced on us by EU directives, ...


Institutionalised child abuse in Ireland
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
Indeed the Lisbon Treaty, if ratified, would give legal effect to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which includes specific provisions ...
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election country-by-country
BBC News - UK
The ODS also remains divided over the Lisbon Treaty. Denmark has a reputation as one of the EU's most Eurosceptic countries. Danes rejected the euro in 2000 ...
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Tory policy on Europe could lead to disaster for Britain
guardian.co.uk - UK
Every EU government supports the treaty as an essential reform following the recent expansion of the EU, and Ireland will probably vote to ratify it in a ...
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MPs' expenses: how would you reform the system?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Hold am immediate referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. 2. Abolish 'local government' & the Political Party System; minimise 'The State' 3. ...
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BBC News
Tory EU pledge to promote Wales
BBC News - UK
It also renews its commitment to a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. Lead candidate Kay Swinburne said: "Wales needs MEPs who will promote Welsh interests in ...
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Obama-Medvedev talks for July
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya
Consultations are also underway in Moscow on concluding a new treaty on strategic arms reductions. The treaty is of much significance given that the current ...
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Grahnlaw: EU Lisbon Treaty: National parliaments (Sweden)
By Grahnlaw
If the Irish vote Yes in the second referendum and the other loose ends are tied up (formal ratification by the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany), the reform treaty enters into force quickly, at the beginning of the month following ...
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The Tories' case on Europe is unanswerable | LabourList.org
Few of our partners would accept the demise of an essential reform treaty solely because of a UK veto. The end result could well be Britain's de facto expulsion from the European Union — something that even the Tory leadership claims ...
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EU elections campaign not Barroso's business « The Lobby
By Blog Team
Barroso does not seem to have any particular vision for Europe apart from the fact that he is likely to be President again and that everything has to be done under the Nice Treaty. ... Xavier on EU elections campaign not Barr… ...
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This disdain is a result of far more than expenses | Coffee House
By James Forsyth
The EU machine marches on, constraining everything from the future of the Post Office to what vitamins we can take. The promised referendum on the Lisbon treaty has been ditched. The quango nanny state has acquired a momentum of its own. Politicians have given away powers .... In all the talk of reform about how MPs behave, this assault on our liberties should not be forgotten. If a party wants my vote it will need to show that it is serious about reversing that assault ...
The Coffee House | Politics and... - http://www.spectator.co.uk/
Looking at History: An 1832 Moment?
By Richard Brown
Although the vote was made an individual right in the Third Reform Act, it was not until 1928 that all men and women over 21 had the vote and a further twenty years before the last vestiges of the pre-reform system were finally ended with the ... In addition, having been promised a referendum on the European constitution, it was unwilling to do the same for the Lisbon Treaty (something justified in terms of the previous Maastricht Treaty) despite its being, in essence, ...
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