Sunday, 8 November 2009


Does the EU have anything to fear from Cameron?

Barry Legg responds to David Cameron’s post-Lisbon press conference

Having failed to deliver on his promise to oppose Lisbon in office, David Cameron now promises to oppose future treaties transferring power. The whole point of Lisbon is that it does away with such treaties in future. Does David Cameron really not understand this, or is he again trying to play games with words? David Cameron refuses to say how he’ll able to convince every single other EU state to agree to hand back powers to Britain. He refuses to say what he’ll do if they don’t. He refuses to say what timescale he is working to. He refuses to say what he expects to give up in negotiations


 Events
The Future of the EU... Can it Survive? With the EU’s drive for power over our democracy and everyday life continuing unabated the Bruges Group holds a conference to oppose the surrendering of our freedoms to Brussels

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On the Wrong Track Britain has consistently been ahead of the game where EU railway legislation is concerned. We broke up a monolithic network, ran private trains and encouraged competition long before the EU told us to. However, as the UK’s horizontally fragmented network - the uniquely British franchise system - is in tune with Brussels’ thinking, if we wanted to revert to either a nationalised railway or vertical integration along the lines of the pre-nationalisation era, we could not actually do so while a member of the EU




























Our Fight for Democracy
This study looks at how the European elites are in danger of creating a profound moral and institutional crisis in Europe – a crisis of democracy. Those in the Brussels elite who have power have not been elected, and those who have been elected have no power
 
Cool Thinking on Climate Change

The European Commission proposes to forge ahead with eyewateringly expensive initiatives designed to mitigate climate change. The estimated cost of these programmes is €73 billion a year across the EU by 2020. In the UK, it will cost £9 billion a year by 2020. It is expected to force a million more households into fuel poverty. These policies are likely to raise average domestic fuel bills by up to £200 a year, while the total economic cost would average around£600 per family