Irish ayes smile on Europe as Farage cries “fix”
Nigel Farage has described the Irish referendum result – in which twice as many people voted ‘yes’ to the Lisbon Treaty as ‘no’ – as a “fix”
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Economic crisis: Saving banks or saving lives?
In countries where spending on healthcare is high, suicide and homicide rates are lower than societies with less well-funded services.
Miliband on Tory far-Right alliance: “It makes me sick”
The Foreign Secretary hits out at the Tories for joing forces with racists, anti-Semites and homophobes in the European Parliament
McMillan-Scott “warned Cameron” about Kaminsky’s past
Edward McMillan-Scott, sacked from the Tory party by David Cameron for standing up to Fascism, says he warned his former colleagues about Michal Kaminski’s past
CDU withdraws London rep in protest at Cameron’s EU grouping
The German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has reported that Angela Merkel’s CDU party has recalled its London representative Thomas Stehling to Germany because of David Cameron’s decision to withdraw from the European People’s Party.
EU’s €3.4bn for diplomacy is value for money
The Taxpayers’ Alliance, the right wing pressure group, has been dealing with EU questions with a report entitled “EU Diplomats.” The report’s author, Lee Rotherham, is a well known right-leaning eurosceptic, and the report departs in a well worn vein:test
BNP leaders take seats on key EU Committees
The two British National Party MEPs elected in last month’s European elections have this week been appointed to key parliamentary committees. Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons will take up seats on the influential Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)test