Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty. Why the UK government is fortunate to have signed it first.
Posts Tagged ‘European Union’
Lisbon Treaty and the Irish referendum
Posted in European Union, Politics, tagged European Union, Ireland, Lisbon Treaty, referendum on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
curved cucumbers & bent bananas
Posted in Civil liberties, Life, Politics, tagged bananas, cucumbers, directive, EU, European Union on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So after years of lying to us, and complaining that stories of bent bananas and curved cucumbers were wicked myths, put about by eurosceptics, the European Commission is today set to remove many of these ‘mythical’ directives from the statute book. Sadly however not all. So whilst the EU commissars are now permitting bent cucumbers [...]
Basel II and its impact on the global financial crisis.
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged banking crisis, banks, Basel 2, basel II, Bingley, Bradford, European Union, financial crisis, Northern Rock on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Only in the technical financial press has any mention been made so far to the impact of the ludicrous “scientific precision” of Basel 2 EU directives. They have finally kicked their inventors in the teeth, as widely predicted by economists and others at the time.
Officially directives 2006/48 and 49, Basel 2 demands that banks and [...]
Mind what you say….
Posted in Civil liberties, Political correctness, Politics, tagged CCTV, European Union, surveillance on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow sees yet another attack on our civil liberties here in the UK.
Under a European Union directive to “…ensure the investigation, detection and proscution of serious crime”, a direct result of the terror attacks in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005, it will become compulsory for telephone companies to make available the time, [...]
Microsoft – who do EU think you are?
Posted in Political correctness, Politics, tagged European Union, Microsoft on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Who does the EU think it is?
I am constantly astounded at the interfering nature of the EU, so I’m not entirely surprised to see that the EU’s Court of First Instance is now meddling in the affairs of Microsoft. I though the West was essentially a capitalist society, where people and companies take the [...]
