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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
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- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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eurosceptics Archive
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Where sovereignty lies
Posted on 12/01/2011 | No CommentsThe debate on the European Union bill in the House of Commons yesterday focused on a clause that declares that the British parliament is still sovereign with respect to the European Union, and an amendment from veteran eurosceptic Bill Cash to make it tougher. (Norman... -
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence?
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 CommentSouverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be told how to defend itself. Brussels, for example, should keep out. So surely the intervention... -
Sandals or jackboots?
Posted on 25/07/2010 | 2 CommentsLast Thursday’s blog post about Daniel Hannan’s view of Iceland has provoked a response. The Conservative MEP has replied in his blog on the Telegraph website (read it here). Aside from selectively quoting from this blog to distort its argument, he describes Federal Union as... -
A politician thinking small
Posted on 21/07/2010 | 4 CommentsConservative anti-European MEP Daniel Hannan writes from Iceland that, rather than bailing out the banks, they should have been allowed to crash. The apparent health of the Icelandic economy is proof that this would have been a better thing to do. Financial assets may have... -
“There is going to be trouble”
Posted on 14/05/2010 | No CommentsPolitical participants and commentators from all parts of the political spectrum have been left astounded by the events of the past week. Who can really understand the implications of the new coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats? Think about it. Arch eurosceptics like... -
The legitimacy of Lisbon
Posted on 08/12/2009 | 7 CommentsIn a debate at University College London yesterday, the argument came forth from the anti-European speakers that the Lisbon treaty was illegitimate in a way that was not true of previous European treaties. It is hard to work out exactly what they mean – they... -
Odd position for a Eurosceptic
Posted on 03/07/2009 | No CommentsFurther to the previous blog entry about the calls for a general election, I find this further example, from the House of Commons on 16 June: Mr. Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley) (Con): Following the crushing defeats experienced by the Government on 7 June, when the... -
What would democracy in the EU look like?
Posted on 10/03/2009 | 4 CommentsIrish entrepreneur Declan Ganley launched his new eurosceptic political party Libertas in the UK today. He intends to have candidates in each of the 27 member states, apparently, but on what platform remains to be seen. Mark Mardell writes about on this on his blog... -
A blanket of whiteness
Posted on 03/02/2009 | 1 CommentAs a blanket of whiteness spreads across the country, so too do strikes and protests against the employment of foreign workers. The anti-European free market right is enjoying the discomfort brought to the government, but is that really correct in view of what is going... -
Do the eurosceptics really want the veto?
Posted on 10/12/2008 | 2 CommentsTory eurosceptic MP Daniel Kawczynski suggested, in the House of Commons yesterday, that Greece should not be allowed to veto the accession by Macedonia to the EU while the issue of the name “Macedonia” remains unresolved. (The Greeks famously object to the use of the...
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