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Thursday, 24th July 2008

Euro-Creep Bulletin #11

Despite the fact that the Lisbon Treaty has been rejected ever-closer Union is carrying on regardless. Recently the EU announced its intention to take more control over Britain.

These plans include:
- Control over the UK's assets
- More control over the military
- More control over Britain's borders
- Control over emergency law enforcement units
- Control over civil protection operations
- Foreign criminal friendly policies
- Expanded propaganda activities
- Using climate change to expand its foreign policy powers
- More green stealth taxes
- More control over energy policy
- Control over beauty products

Also listed are the flood of laws maqde by the EU. As members of the European Union there is nothing that our own democratic process can do to overturn those decisions

Papers

Are the British a Servile People? Idealism and the EU

The rejection of national sovereignty has led to the British people submitting to authority which comes dressed as virtue. At the heart of the matter is the idealism that disdains pride in Britain and British culture

Blog

Bruges Group Blog
Visit the Bruges Group's interactive blog for critical and controversial comment on EU affairs.

The Costs of Regulation and How the EU Makes Them Worse
This paper looks at the development of the regulatory structure and the forces that drive it, most importantly the European Union. It analyses this sorry state of affairs and provides solutions for a freer society

The Principles of British Foreign Policy
This paper discusses European integration and Britain's special path in history.
Arguing that it is time for the country to abandon the ill-fated European adventure and return to her political and ideological roots

Videos

Video of the Bruges Group's Waterloo Day Meeting

On the day of the final vote in the House of Lords on the Lisbon Treaty, Lord Willoughby de Broke spoke on the EU, the House of Lords and the Lisbon Treaty. Gerry Frost discussed the topic of Euroscepticism: Why has it failed?

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Papers

Are the British a Servile People?

The Costs of Regulation

The Principles of British Foreign Policy

Lost Illusions: British Foreign Policy

The Case for EFTA

Plan B For Europe

Will the EU's Constitution Rescue its Currency?

Galileo: The Military and Political Dimensions

The Fate of Britain's National Interest

Health and the Nation

Criminal Justice and the draft Constitution

Subsidiarity and the Illusion of Democratic Control

A Constitution to destroy Europe

Giscard d'Estaing's "Constitution": muddle and danger presented in absurd prolixity

Free Speech: The EU Version

Federalist Thought Control

Democracy In Crisis

European Union and the Politics of Culture

Britain and Europe: The Culture of Deceit

The Bank that rules Europe?

Conservative MEPs and the EPP: Time for Divorce

Bruges Revisited

Aiming for the Heart of Europe: A Misguided Venture

Is Europe Ready for EMU?

A Single European Currency: Why the United Kingdom must say 'No'

From Single Market to Single Currency

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Vice-President: The Rt Hon. the Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Co-Chairmen: Dr Brian Hindley & Barry Legg
Director: Robert Oulds MA
Head of Research: Dr Helen Szamuely
Washington D.C. Representative: John O'Sullivan CBE
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