eu politics

So says Nigel Farage: Theresa May it is reported stayed up until 3:00am yesterday to cast the deciding vote in the EU Parliament vote for its next leader. She has said she will vote for whoever has the majority at that stage. Alas, after 20 hours of wrangling it had to be postponed until...

So the elections for the EU parliament are coming up in May I think. What are you going to vote for? I'm going to vote for the Pirate Party, like I did last election. The only decent choice for the EU parliament.

The UK conservative party has been split over EU membership for as long as I can remember and the issue periodically re-emerges to plague the party leadership. The recent success of UKIP in the local elections has brought the issue front and centre once again. David Cameron (the UK Prime...

Greece pleads for bail out with conditions. She hopes for no or few conditions. Germany is :rule10ed that Greece can even consider even peeping aboutconditions. Many of these European countries had a more lax attitude (Greece) than others (Germany) when the EU formed. I don't think they...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1133616.html there is absolutely NO religious or historical reason why the Arab areas of East Jerusalem can't belong to Palestine and the Jewish areas of East Jerusalem belong to Israel. The Arab areas will become the capital of Palestine and the Jewish...

Sorry don't have a proper link since it was just tweeted to me :) ETA--Here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8367589.stm Oh and a UK baroness got the foreign policy job.

Well the Conservatives "cast-iron promise" to have a referendum isn't being kept to. Now granted that circumstances have changed but it seems rather strange that when the circumstances changed for Labour's promise of a referendum on the Constitutional Treaty the Conservatives claimed that was...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8340664.stm Well, that's that then. Onwards President Blair. Funny how this tidying up exercise nets us a freaking President of the European Council now. Thoughts?

Only a few hours to go until the Irish get their second vote, looking like this time they will vote "yes". If the Irish do vote "yes" then only the Czech Republic (or possibly maybe but not too likely the Tories) will be left in opposition... Amusing quote: "Prime Minister Brian Cowen -...

So, with roughly ninety minutes till the polls close, voter turnout to the election of the Danish representatives to the European Parliament is hovering around US levels. The EP has never quite captured the Danes' interest, even though its influence on Danish law is huge. Plus, it's raining...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article5993184.ece "Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister’s “global new deal” for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession. I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more...

The recent YouGov survey of 2,157 UK adults showed: "64 per cent in favour of weakening Britain's ties with the EU, compared with just 22 per cent in favour of keeping the UK's current full membership including the Lisbon Treaty" "Overall, 16 per cent of voters want Britain simply to withdraw...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5430362.ece "The European Union's new figurehead believes that climate change is a dangerous myth and has compared the union to a Communist state. The views of President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, 67, have left the government...

I'm doing an essay on the Westminster Model vs Multi-Level Governance for uni and since my lecturer is being slow as hell emailing back, I thought I'd ask a few questions here. Regarding the European Union: If the EU passes a law, does that mean that its members countries HAVE to take it...

'PARIS, Nov. 3 -- European governments drew up a road map for relations with the new U.S. president Monday in their maiden attempt to present a concerted policy to guide dealings with the United States. The outline, formalized by the 27 European Union foreign ministers at a meeting in...

I don't know what to think of the Lisbon Treaty really. Maybe some Europeans can give me some input on it. The main concerns I have seen were by leftist tards ranting about how the death sentence WILL BE INTRODUCED again to keep them down when they feel like rioting or something like that, so I...

The EU, part of the so-called "quartet", had vowed not to deal with the PA's government as long as it doesn't recognize Israel or gives up terror. Now that a new so-called "unity government" formed in the PA--a government which, explicitly, declared it will never recognize Israel and will never...

After the (apparently) resounding defeat of the EU Constitution in France and Denmark, I saw today that the Italian labor minister has called for a return to the lira. I admit, I don't know a whole lot about the European Union aside from the fact that the participating countries use the euro...

Although Europe is very liberal, it also very diverse, and to this day can be quite politically incorrect. People smoke here. Italian guys whistle and grab girls' butts. Public billboards show naked people. Bullfights continue in Spain. But I think all that is about to change. The US...