Wednesday, 15 August 2012



Creating a regional pilot integration zone could give a boost to relations between Russia and the EU. But which region is best? That creates a stir.
http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/14/entering_the_eu_through_the_back_door_17375.html

Rehn says EU, ECB ready to act on debt crisis

Wednesday, 15 August, 2012 5:59


Spain Has ‘Open Mind’ on Sovereign Aid Request, EU’s Rehn Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-14/spain-has-open-mind-on-sovereign-aid-request-eu-s-rehn-says.html

Rehn seeks to assuage US doubts

European commissioner tells US that a roadmap to a “genuine economic union” in the eurozone will be presented this year.
A “specific and time-bound road-map” toward a “genuine economic union” within the European Union will be in place by the end of this year, the European commissioner for the euro said today.
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Olli Rehn said that the eurozone was at a “decisive juncture” and that the plan for an “Economic and Monetary Union 2.0” would ensure that “the eurozone will continue to defy its detractors”
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2012/august/rehn-seeks-to-assuage-us-doubts-/74996.aspx


Democracy, the EU and Britain’s future

Wednesday, 15 August, 2012 0:45

Mr Hannan was first elected as an MEP in 1999, and has witnessed at close quarters the egregious contempt the EU elite has for the continent’s voters.

As he describes brilliantly on these pages, Europe’s leaders, anti-democratic to their very DNA, have ridden roughshod over the wishes of the public to advance a grand plan to merge ancient kingdoms into a single state.
Businesses, landowners and charities have been bought off with mountains of taxpayers’ money.
Governments have been bribed or bullied into refusing the public their say. In Britain, our own political class – not wishing to derail the Brussels juggernaut – denied the country the vote which all three major parties so solemnly promised over the Lisbon Treaty.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2188472/Democracy-EU-Britain-s-future.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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