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		<title>How to repatriate 130 EU laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Open Europe published a new report that shows how the Government could repatriate 130 EU laws on crime and policing, including the controversial European Arrest Warrant. The Government must decide before June 2014 whether a whole raft of EU police and justice laws, adopted before the Lisbon Treaty took force, will continue to ]]></description>
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		<title>The Initiative for a Free and Prospering Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/the-initiative-for-a-free-and-prospering-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister today made a spirited defence of the Government&#8217;s position following the European Council meeting, in the face of ridiculous pantomime behaviour by Labour. I was glad to be called to ask a question, in which I brought to the Prime Minister&#8217;s attention the Initiative for a Free and Prospering Europe, launched yesterday: ]]></description>
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		<title>Is the EU maintaining the Rule of Law?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/is-the-eu-maintaining-the-rule-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their haste to use ever greater state power to solve the problems caused by excess state power, the European nations intend, it appears, to use an EU institution, the ECJ, to arbitrate disputes under a non-EU treaty. This may seem arcane, but EU matters always are. It&#8217;s one of the reasons democrats and lovers ]]></description>
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		<title>The PM&#8217;s critics on the EU have a crucial question to answer</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/critics-of-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/critics-of-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would they have done about this &#8220;new fiscal compact&#8221; agreed at the recent European Council: General government budgets shall be balanced or in surplus; this principle shall be deemed respected if, as a rule, the annual structural deficit does not exceed 0.5% of nominal GDP. Such a rule will also be introduced in Member ]]></description>
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		<title>Did I have a Freudian slip when asking about the EU at PMQs?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Daily Mail, Quentin Letts reports that I called for the UK to quit the EU altogether at PMQs yesterday. Some colleagues also thought I said &#8220;leave&#8221; not &#8220;lead&#8221;.  Hansard reports my intended words: Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is time for this country to lead Europe into the ]]></description>
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		<title>Speech to the People&#8217;s Pledge Congress on the Eurozone crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/peoples-pledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why Is There a Euro Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/why-is-there-a-euro-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/why-is-there-a-euro-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a magnificent article by Philipp Bagus – Why Is There a Euro Crisis? Today&#8217;s banks are not free-market institutions. They live in a symbiosis with governments that they are financing. The banks&#8217; survival depends on privileges and government interventions. Such an intervention explains the unusual stock gains. On Wednesday night, an EU summit had limited the ]]></description>
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		<title>Merkel wins rescue fund vote after raising spectre of war &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/merkel-wins-rescue-fund-vote-after-raising-spectre-of-war-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/merkel-wins-rescue-fund-vote-after-raising-spectre-of-war-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Merkel wins rescue fund vote after raising spectre of war &#8211; Telegraph: She told MPs: &#8220;Nobody should take for granted another 50 years of peace and prosperity in Europe &#8230; that&#8217;s why I say: If the euro fails, Europe fails. Quite. It&#8217;s what I was getting at when I wrote this. If I can, I ]]></description>
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		<title>Via BBC News &#8211; EU referendum: Cameron says no bad blood towards rebels</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/via-bbc-news-eu-referendum-cameron-says-no-bad-blood-towards-rebels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/via-bbc-news-eu-referendum-cameron-says-no-bad-blood-towards-rebels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s no, on my part, no bad blood, no rancour, no bitterness. These are valued Conservative colleagues, I understand why people feel strongly and we will go forward together and tackle the difficult decisions the country faces.&#8221; via BBC News &#8211; EU referendum: Cameron says no bad blood towards rebels. The debate is available here. ]]></description>
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		<title>The EU should be abolished</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/calls-for-a-referendum-on-eu-membership-after-david-camerons-u-turn-on-tax-world-news-the-observer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/calls-for-a-referendum-on-eu-membership-after-david-camerons-u-turn-on-tax-world-news-the-observer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Calls for a referendum on EU membership after David Cameron&#8217;s U-turn on tax &#124; World news &#124; The Observer: Tory and Labour MPs believe that if the eurozone moves towards a single tax system – as chancellor George Osborne advocated again – then the EU will become a fundamentally different organisation to the one ]]></description>
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