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If so many people in Britain (80% was the usual figure quoted) wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, how come only 43% bothered voting? If the anti-EU cause is so overwhelmingly popular, how come only around half of those voted for an anti-EU party? (And that’s only if you include the Tories as anti-EU.)… » read more
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Britain, Elections, English, EU, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Other parties |
June 2, 2009
Claims for the number of laws with an EU origin range from just 9% up to 84%. So what’s the truth?
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Britain, Economics, Elections, English, EU, Featured, Law, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Public Affairs, UK |
I’ve done a lot of eurosceptic-bashing over the last six years. But they have a vital role to play.
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democracy, English, EU, eurosceptic, Featured, NoseMonkey's EUtopia |
May 23, 2009
This has been on various UKIP election leaflets, so it’s evidently a claim they’re proud of – but does it stand up? Simple maths tells us that Britain paying £40 million a day to the EU would mean an annual contribution of £14.6 billion. However, the most recent Treasury Report on the UK’s EU budget… » read more
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Economics, English, EU, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Other parties, UK, UKIP |
April 7, 2009
It seems that another ex-Soviet state on the European fringe is on the brink of revolution following the weekend’s elections in Moldova as students storm the Parliament building and face off against riot police and the military. On Twitter, Moscovici, Kosmopolit and Julien Frisch are providing regular updates (in fact this is already being dubbed… » read more
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'New' Europe, Elections, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, Moldova, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Social Europe |
Is a European superstate even a possibility? Where to look for inspiration?
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Constitutionalism, Culture, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, EU, EU Priorities and Opinion, Europe, Featured, History, Knowledge, NoseMonkey's EUtopia |
March 28, 2009
This little debate seems to be running on and on – and it’s a fun one, so let’s keep at it. Some very good discussion is still raging away in the comments to my Jean Monnet and EU superstate posts, and Ken’s come back with a new post at EU Realist, at which I’ve just… » read more
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English, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU Reform, eurosceptic, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Public Affairs |
February 12, 2009
Via the Convention on Modern Liberty’s Twitter feed and following yesterday’s post on German concerns about the EU being used as a democratic bypass comes news of a worrying development for the freedom of every EU citizen after : People may be aware of the debate in the UK over access to communications data… but… » read more
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Britain, Civil Liberties, English, EU, InfoSociety, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, UK |
February 11, 2009
Originally posted as a comment to a post at the Local Democracy blog, a brief summary of my dislike of the British system of government/elections. The prime reason why I am still not sure if I’m going to bother to vote in the upcoming EU elections is precisely for the reasons stated below – I… » read more
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democracy, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Food for thought, NoseMonkey's EUtopia |
February 3, 2009
Well, that could be one way of diffusing the ongoing EU/CIS standoff over EUropean energy supplies that recently saw death and destruction in Georgia and much of southern/eastern Europe lose gas supplies in the middle of winter. EurActiv reports that “Lawmakers in the European Parliament are considering inviting Russia to join the Union’s Nabucco gas… » read more
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Energy, Energy Supply, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, Europe, NoseMonkey's EUtopia, Russia |
January 11, 2009
Six months to go, and the first poll of UK voting intentions appears. Much of interest.
January 1, 2009
Nothing changes, it seems. Just like 2008, 2009 promises to bring yet more Russian sabre-rattling and European fears about the continent’s long-term energy security. Also time to welcome in the Czech EU presidency. With the Czech Republic currently being run by the neoliberal, eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party of President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek… » read more
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blogging, Blogs, English, Nosemonkey, Nosemonkey News, NoseMonkey's EUtopia |
December 11, 2008
So, Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty organisation Libertas has been reborn as a pan-European political party. What to expect? Original post by nosemonkey
December 10, 2008
“Bring it on”, says the outgoing secretary general of the European Parliament to the eurosceptics. Oh dear… Original post by nosemonkey
December 9, 2008
The Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent Bruno Waterfield has made an interesting contribution to a pamphlet by the Manifesto Club, No Means No! Essays on the Eve of the European Council Meeting. Ignore the populist eurosceptic rhetoric of the title, there’s actually a lot of interest here. (Seriously, sensible eurosceptic chaps – I know you’ve got to… » read more
December 5, 2008
On why attempts to engage the people in EU politics are going to continue to fail. Original post by nosemonkey
December 4, 2008
Could the new “Eastern Partnership” and Union for the Mediterranean be a sign of EU ambitions to come? Original post by nosemonkey
December 1, 2008
If there’s one thing absolutely guaranteed to put back the European Union cause in the UK, it’s having some unelected Brussels bureaucrat mouth off about how the country is “closer than ever before” to joining the single currency. Especially when you use ill-considered phrases like: “I know that the majority in Britain are still opposed,… » read more
