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How to repatriate 130 EU laws

By Ex-staff
Jan-31-2012
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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 apply in the UK beyond December 2014. Under Lisbon, if the Government opts out of any one of the existing laws, it has to opt […]

Tags: Criminal Justice, Democracy, Dominic Raab, EU, Europe, European Arrest Warrant, European Court of Justice, Law, Lisbon Treaty, Open Europe, Socialism

OpenEurope on amendments to the Lisbon Treaty

By Steve Baker
Jun-25-2010
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Via OpenEurope’s press pages: National diplomats have this morning finalised changes to the Lisbon Treaty in order to allow 18 extra MEPs to take their seats. EU leaders agreed at last week’s EU summit to launch an Intergovernmental Conference to handle the required treaty change. This short IGC was dealt with at “Coreper II”, the meeting of the permanent representatives of the member states in Brussels Now it is up to national parliaments to ratify the treaty change. Despite already taking […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Lisbon Treaty

Budget powers for the EU?

By Steve Baker
May-21-2010
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Via Cameron tells Merkel he would veto transfer of budget powers to EU – Times Online: David Cameron gave a blunt warning to Angela Merkel today that he would veto any attempt to reopen the Lisbon treaty to give the EU more power over national budgets. Standing alongside the German Chancellor, Mr Cameron insisted that he wanted to see a strong single European currency but pledged to block moves to prop it up that involved a transfer of power from Westminster […]

Tags: EU, euro, Lisbon Treaty

CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to Lisbon

By Steve Baker
Sep-1-2009
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Via CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to Lisbon: Jim McConalogue, Editor of The European Journal and occasionally of this parish, has listed one hundred reasons why Ireland should again reject Lisbon. It was disclosed at the weekend that Ryanair are helping to bankroll the ‘Yes campaign’ which current opinion polling suggests is on course for victory. Read more here, and if you have not done so, it is well worth watching Daniel Hannan’s speech to […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Ireland, Lisbon Treaty, Referendum, Sophistry

EU: A UK referendum on Lisbon becomes more likely

By Steve Baker
Jul-5-2009
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Via We are no longer crucial. We are marginal again — unless we say ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty – Analysis, Opinion – Independent.ie, we learn that full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will be further delayed, making a UK referendum under a Conservative government more likely: The implications of this week’s judgment on the Lisbon Treaty by the German Constitutional Court are profound for the whole of Europe and raise many questions, both for Germany and for all member states, […]

Tags: EU, Lisbon Treaty, Optimism

Czech Senate Sets Lisbon Treaty Vote For May 6-7

By Steve Baker
Apr-29-2009
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The Czech parliament’s upper house will vote on the European Union’s Lisbon treaty at a May 6-7 session, a spokesman said on Thursday, in what is widely seen as a tight vote after the government’s collapse last month. The treaty, which is intended to streamline decision-making in the bloc and give it a long-term president, must be adopted by all 27 EU member states to take effect. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, who signed the treaty, has said he expected the […]

Tags: EU, Lisbon Treaty, Mirek Topolanek

The Conservative campaign on Europe begins

By Steve Baker
Apr-27-2009
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Tags: Conservatives, Democracy, EU, Europe, Lisbon Treaty, Optimism

Hannan’s Cromwellian speech on 26 April

By Steve Baker
Apr-27-2009
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On freedom, democracy and self determination. Courtesy of ToryBear: Watch Daniel Hannan Speech in News | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com He has a wonderful turn of phrase: … the European Constitution, now resurrected by grisly necromancy as the Lisbon Treaty… The Shakespeare he quotes: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was […]

Tags: Conservatives, Daniel Hannan, Democracy, EU, Lisbon Treaty

FT.com — And now for a world government

By Steve Baker
Dec-12-2008
Politics
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From The Financial Times, of all places: I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible. A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Government, Lisbon Treaty, Notre Europe, Sophistry

Irish will vote on EU’s Lisbon Treaty for a second time next year

By Steve Baker
Dec-9-2008
Politics
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Irish voters who rejected the Lisbon Treaty in June will be asked to vote again on the issue next year, paving the way for controversial EU laws to be introduced in Britain. Predictable, but an affront nevertheless. read more | digg story

Tags: EU, Lisbon Treaty, Sophistry

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Tag Archives: Lisbon Treaty

How to repatriate 130 EU laws

OpenEurope on amendments to the Lisbon Treaty

Budget powers for the EU?

CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to Lisbon

EU: A UK referendum on Lisbon becomes more likely

Czech Senate Sets Lisbon Treaty Vote For May 6-7

The Conservative campaign on Europe begins

Hannan’s Cromwellian speech on 26 April

FT.com — And now for a world government

Irish will vote on EU’s Lisbon Treaty for a second time next year

Liberty – for peace and prosperity

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