Thursday, 17th May 2012
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 Freedom from the
EU
Roger Helmer MEP, Member of the European Parliament, Mark Pritchard MP, a
Member of the Joint National Security Strategy Committee, & the Icelandic
Journalist and Historian, Hjörtur J Guðmundsson, are to speak to the Bruges
Group on:
Tuesday, 15th May 2012 at the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House
6 Park Place, St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR
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Does
the EU’s Single Market Encourage FDI into the UK?
'Isolation' and inward investment
This paper examines the claim that the single market has helped investment,
and specifically the foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK, which has in
recent years contributed somewhere between a fifth and a half of the total
gross UK capital formation. Membership of the EU’s single market is commonly
assumed to have been a key factor in encouraging foreign investors to choose
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German Economic
Policy and the Euro 1999 - 2010
Germany has benefitted more than any other country in the Eurozone since
the launch of the Euro in 2002. The Euro has effectively become a German
currency empire which is draining the resources of the Eurozone’s smaller
economies.
The harm that German policy is causing is so severe that the Mediterranean-Rim
countries are caught in a debt trap where their economies are suffering, they
are incurring debt and must then impose austerity measures which further
weaken their economies. Yet their economies will not grow so long as the Euro
helps German manufacturers dominate the Eurozone
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The Single Market and
British Withdrawal
The stark economic facts as to why the UK should leave the EU
The EC Customs Union dates to 1957. The Single European Act came into
effect in 1992 and superimposed on the Customs Union a costly,
tightly-regulated, supposedly harmonised internal market: the Single Market.
The outsourcing to Brussels of the regulation of all the City’s financial
markets, the Social Chapter, the Working Time Directive, Health and Safety and
Tax Harmonisation: all are part of the pursuit of the Single Market.
Membership of the Single Market is often said to be vital for British trade.
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A
Crisis of Trust
The Bruges Group is pleased to announce the publication of A Crisis of
Trust by Stuart Wheeler. It examines, in detail, the political culture
that has grown up in Britain since our accession to the EU.
A Crisis of Trust is an invaluable guide to what has gone wrong and
how our shattered parliamentary institutions may yet be put right, written by
one of Britain’s most successful and well-informed businessmen.
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MP
Watch
Who are the best and worst MPs
The Bruges Group has ranked Members of Parliament according to their voting
in the House of Commons. You can check how they voted on the key EU related
issues that came before them and see who are the genuine Eurosceptics and who
are Europhile. You can also let your Member of Parliament know what you think
of their voting record.
Is your MP one of the best or one of the worst
MPs? |
The Bruges Group is a think-tank which holds meetings, lobbies and produces
research on issues relating to Britain’s membership of the European Union. Our
Honorary President is the Rt Hon. the Baroness Thatcher.
Since our foundation in 1989, following on from the Bruges speech made by the
then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, the Group has produced ground-breaking
research on issues relating to; the cost of the EU, payments to the EU,
immigration, the euro, the EU and the environment and EU corruption.
The Bruges Group also comments upon the many EU institutions, such as the
Brussels bureaucracy which includes; the European Commission, the European
Court of Justice, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. These
European institutions, and their bureaucrats, produce directives and
regulations which are a burden upon businesses and the economy.
Through its work against the treaties which establish and govern the
functioning of the European Union the Bruges Group spearheads the intellectual
battle against European integration, EU federalism, centralisation and
enlargement. The Bruges Group continues to consider issues relating to the
UK’s withdrawal from the EU and the need to restore British sovereignty and
democracy. As such there should be a referendum on the EU.
The Group often comments on the Conservative Party and Europe; which remains
a contentious issue for the government.
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