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Keeping watch on the European Union's plans and the laws it is forcing
on the UK
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In a follow-up to the original Bruges Group paper on the EU's Galileo
project, this paper looks at the most recent developments and the obvious
disinformation being provided by the Government to Parliamentary Questions. It
illustrates the essential dishonesty and near panic within government at the
state of the whole Galileo project
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Exposing the implications of the renamed EU Constitution
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Roland Vaubel, Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim in
Germany and member of the Bruges Group, argues that the so-called Reform
Treaty is really the EU Constitution revived
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The European Parliament approves the mandate for the Reform Treaty and
exposes the fact that it is a guise for reviving the EU Constitution
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The British Government is conspiring with the EU to force through further
integration using Article 308 of Britain’s membership of the European Union
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The European Union Court of Auditors released on Tuesday, 24th October it’s
key assessment on how our money is spent.
In a damning indictment of the Brussels institutions, the clear message of the
EU’s very own Court of Auditors report is one of fraud, mismanagement and
waste.
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The Bruges Group pays tribute to its founder Lord Harris of High Cross
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If Trafalgar had been lost it would have led to the imposition of
repressive, statist policies and the end of the Anglo-Saxon system. Yet, those
very same French policies are now being imposed by the EU on a once free
nation
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Political correctness is like a poisonous gas seeping through the air,
creeping inside our national institutions and taking over our great country.
Political correctness is one of the biggest peacetime threats to freedom this
country has ever seen. The major source of this is the European Union
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Britain and the USA should promote the common values – of limited
government, free trade, free markets and individual liberty. However, the EU
is going in completely the opposite direction to this – which is damaging for
Europe and damaging for the Transatlantic Alliance
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EU bureaucracy is burdening sport, just like it has burdened business; and
as the EU seeks to regulate the beautiful game football is now facing a
financial crisis. José Mourinho, the Chelsea Manager, may think that
Referees are a problem but wait until the EU regulations start to bite
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This article seeks to critically analyse the decision of the European
Union’s Advocate General whose opinion regarding the Marks & Spencer case
may create a single EU-wide corporation tax adding to business costs
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Sally McNamara, EU Project Director of the American Legislative Exchange
Council, comments on the implications of the EU Constitution for the United
States of America
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The Treaty Establishing a Constitution For the EU: An analysis of the
Constitution that makes the EU into a State
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An analysis of the terms of a renegotiated British membership of the
European Union with a Foreword by Lord Tebbit
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The European Constitution moves 63 areas to QMV compared to only 30 with
the Maastricht treaty. The Labour government has given away the veto in 70
areas since it came into power and if the European Constitution is ratified
the Labour Government will have given away unanimity in 133 areas
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What is the meaning of the “constitution” of something resembling a new
Soviet Union in Europe that was presented to EU bosses at the end of June? How
do its antecedents shape predictions about how it will operate? Why is Tony
Blair so keen on promoting it? What will be its impact on Britain and on the
“new Europe” drawn from the debris of the original Soviet Union and its
satellites? And how will it affect the operation of international capital
markets and of the world economic system?
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The EU's Common Agricultural Policy and French-inspired aggressive
trade practices, such as the dumping of sugar on the world market is according
to Michael Moore "literally killing people in the third world. In fact it
is killing more people than all of Dubya's bombs"
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The choice of a European supplier for British Army trucks may be a
politically driven decision that will put the whole of the US special
relationship at risk, with untold political consequences
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This week Britain's Olympic heroes celebrated their success by holding
up the traffic in London, but the European Commission is making sport an issue
that is no longer the preserve of the nation-state
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A summary of our relationship with 'Brussels', including the case
for the United Kingdom to leave the EU. As the fourth biggest economy in the
world, as its third largest trading nation, and as a major military power,
leaving the EU would be a liberating, refreshing, positive, modern thing to
do. And we would be very much richer as well!
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Unlike many Continental nations we have no reason to subscribe to a
Euromyth to escape from past infamy. It is now time to get out of Europe
altogether
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The Ryder Cup and Federalism. As an attempt to build a European identity
the EU has managed to impose itself on a sporting event – the Ryder Cup
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As opposition to EU integration, and its political and economic costs,
grows the Bruges Group looks at and beyond the EU Constitution to discuss the
options open to Britain and how best to pursue them
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The UK as a founder member of a Global Free Trade Association: The
definitive alternative future for Britain to EU membership
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An anlaysis of the options available to the UK at the drop of a hat
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Roger Helmer MEP busts 10 Euro myhs and undermines the misinformation of
the pro-euro/EU lobby
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The failures of British foreign policy caused through Britain's
alliance with France show that it is time for Britain to slowly disentangle
itself from Europe
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Tax expert Damon Lambert warns of the European Union's high and
anti-competitive tax policies. The time has come to free Britain from EU
control to allow a new tax agenda that will create wealth and jobs
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It seems that it will not be Sven that undermines the beautiful game. The
European Union's Bosman ruling threatened lower league clubs, the EU then
threatened Sky's television rights and the financial support this brings.
And now the EU Competition Commissioner and the EU Constitution is seeking to
control football
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The Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, is committing Britain to a potentially
disastrous military system. However, no procurement contracts have yet to be
awarded so, before we are finally committed to spending huge amounts of money
and going down a road from which there is no return, we should have that
debate. If we go ahead it could mean the surrender of the independence of our
armed forces and the nation, so we owe ourselves that
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Summit briefing: Analysis of the agenda items discussed at the IGC Summit
in Brussels concluding the negotiations to the EU Constitution
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Across the European Union the people have spoken. Euroscepticism is growing
because more and more people are taking the trouble to find out what the
European Union is about and decide that they do not like the inward looking,
statist, protectionist, over-regulated, sclerotic political, social and
economic structure that it has developed into. We must now produce ideas and
policies that are feasible alternatives to Britain’s membership of the
European Union.
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Constitutional Lawyer, Leolin Price CBE QC, gives a succinct analysis of
the EU Constitution's implications for democracy, self-government and
economic independence. The EU Constitution is a manifesto for a continuing
transfer of power from Member States to the Union
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Analysis of a European Commission document setting out the EU's agenda
over the next 20 years. It argues that the European Union is in crisis and can
be saved only by turning it into a fully fledged "political union",
with a European tax, minimum wage and pan-European political parties. Here the
report admits that the constitution is only a first stage of building a
political Europe. "Real but limited progress" is the round
table's verdict on that Constitution, undeniably an important step
forward. But it is not the end of the process. It is the beginning.
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The argument over the inclusion of Christianity in the EU Constitution
opens up the deep fissures in Europe, calls attention to centuries’ old
conflicts and undermines the whole notion of there being one set of European
values. Do we really want a Constitution that wants to regulate even European
history
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For the sake of the world economy Britain must take a leading role in the
EU and veto the EU Constitution
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The EU faces the possibility of the embarrassing failure, especially just
after its biggest ever enlargement, of not being able to agree the EU
Constitution at the supposedly final IGC summit on 17th-18th June. More and
more, it is looking like the baton will have to be passed to the Dutch
Presidency, which starts on 1st July, with a final summit rescheduled for
mid-December.
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Dr Helen Szamuely looks at the emerging links between the EU and China and
exposes the fact that France is turning a blind eye to Chinese human rights
abuses
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Tony Blair has little choice but to call a referendum on the EU
Constitution – a referendum he cannot win – the political implications for him
are immense and to not call a referendum will bankrupt the whole legitimacy of
European integration. A referendum on the EU Constitution in Britain, along
with those taking part on the Continent, will clearly show that many EU member
states manifest destiny is not to be part of a centralised EU.
In essence, the government - and the nation - needs to make plans for the
contingency of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, not as a result
of a 'big bang' occasioned by a conscious decision to leave, but as
part of a gradual process of realignment. We need credible and realistic
alternative structures and arrangements to replace the EU, ready to put into
action as the need arises.
Tony Blair, bring on the referendum.
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The costly 'rights' culture has overwhelmed Britain. The font of
this is the European Union. And the EU Constitution is set to make it worse,
it is time that the tap was switched of at source
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An assessment of the latest development in the EU's Great Game. In
conjunction with some unsavoury business partners with appalling human rights
records, most notably China, the European Union is pushing ahead with the
Galileo satellite navigation system. Allowing other states to have control of
this technology will be a major blow to America’s pre-eminence and will boost
the military capabilities of potential enemies of the United States and its
allies.
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The EU's world view and international ambitions will create a world
where big brother knows best. Their supranationalism dictates that cordial
deals should be struck with tyrants. It dictates that international relations
should not be a matter governed by the democratically elected governments of
nation-states. Instead international affairs, and subsequently every other
matter, should be handed to supranational institutions and regional blocks
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The mysterious disappearance of the EU's ethical foreign policy
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Internal bun-fights in the EU and an end to the largesse could mean that
there is a parting of the ways, but only if the Conservative Party is bold
enough to divorce the EPP and lead a fight back
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The Prime Minister's claims about the EU Constitution are merely a
smokescreen designed to hide the true economic implications of the EU
Constitution. In reality it is a threat to jobs and democracy
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What is happening between Europe and America? Dr Helen Szamuely looks at
developments in the Western Alliance
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IDS needs to reaffirm his desired policy of severing the MEPs ties with the
federalist European People's Party. An announcement should be made at the
Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool
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A look at the arguments in the debate on the costs/benefits of EU
membership
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Roger Helmer discusses the European Union's and the German
Embassy's undue influence in Estonia's EU accession debate
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Giscard's draft EU Constitution is not federalist. It goes beyond
federalism. It will in fact give enormous powers to unaccountable centralised
institutions which are not, and cannot be, democratic
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The European Arrest Warrant is a political project to accelerate Europe’s
integration by creating “a common judicial space” where justice doesn’t have
much of a role
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It is quite clear both from the negotiations that surrounded the Convention
on the Future of Europe and from the agonizing intellectual mind games being
played out in the various European publications that the EU structures have no
future. To preserve them in any way old-fashioned ideas of cultural identity
and legitimacy have to be brought into play
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A legal revolution and the loss of key rights means that the government can
no longer pretend that the EU Constitution is just a 'tidying up
exercise'. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's proposals will create
a unitary European state where civil liberties do not apply
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The Common Foreign and Security Policy will split up the Western alliance
that had fought Communism and should now be fighting the new threat:
terrorism
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Roger Helmer MEP, after his recent visit to Estonia organised by Research
Centre Free Europe, tells us why the Estonians should say 'No' to EU
Membership
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Dr Helen Szamuely takes a look at the international developments following
on from Tony Blair's visit to Eastern Europe
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Lord Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1990-93, rebuts the pro-euro entry
Begg Report
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The signing of the treaty in Athens, paving the way for the enlargement of
the European Union in 2004, was not the great occasion that it was hyped up to
be
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Help counter the EU propaganda aimed at undermining Estonia's liberal
economy and sovereign constitutional independence
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The Prime Minister's pledges on Europe and the euro fail to match the
reality - he must be closely watched
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Peaceniks, the EU and Saddam - analysis of the international developments
relating to the War on Terror
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A comprehensive summary of the positions and progress within the
Convention
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The War on Terror has opened a fundamental division between the
Franco-German axis and the other Europe
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Damon Lambert a tax expert at KPMG discusses how the European Court of
Justice is standardising taxation in the European Union
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Graham Eardley exposes the EU's propagandist activities aimed at
promoting European integration through the 'A Soul for Europe
Programme'
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As the European Union's Copenhagen Summit gets underway Dr Helen
Szamuely offers a critique of EU enlargement
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10 questions that will help you identify where prospective candidates
seeking to be elected to the European Parliament stand on the key European
issues
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Time to stop pandering to the EU and ask the electorate, 'do you want
to give control of your country to the corrupt, unaccountable, undemocratic
and incompetent Brussels Bureaucracy'
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New Labour role over again
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Gawain Towler analyses the Dashwood Constitution
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Peter Hain, Minister for Europe, unveils a Federalist proposal for a
European Superstate.
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A score of prominent Conservative politicians reveal their blueprint for a
democratic EU. This statement is from; 1) The Earl of Onslow 2) the Earl of
Liverpool 3) the Rt Hon. Lord Tebbit of Chingford, CH 4) the Rt Hon. the Lord
Hanson 5) Lord Blake 6) Lord Pearson of Rannoch 7) the Rt Hon. John Redwood,
MP 8) Sir Teddy Taylor, MP 9) Andrew Rosindell, MP 10) Angela Watkinson, MP
11) John Wilkinson, MP 12) Murdo Fraser, MSP 13) Alun Cairns, AM 14) David
Davies, AM 15) David I. Jones, AM 16) Roger Helmer, MEP 17) Sir Richard Body
18) Christopher Gill (Chairman, Freedom Association) 19) Cllr Robert Oulds
(Director, the Bruges Group) and 20) Dr Lee Rotherham.
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Professor Kenneth Minogue argues that the EU's rigidity will be the
downfall of the 'European Project'
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The left-wing anti-Americans in the European Parliament are wrong to
despise the United States
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The Brussels federalists stitch-up the Youth Convention
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As the EU fails to act effectively against the Mugabe regime and tackle the
illegal French ban on British beef the emerging European superstate shows its
impotence
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A new organisation "Medborgere mot EMU" ("Citizens against
EMU") has been founded to present the centre-right case against Sweden
joining the euro
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EU Enlargement will not create the flexible Europe that many in the
Conservative Party hope for but instead it will mean that the European Union
will only become more centralised.
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Despite the misinformation of the pro-euro lobby the young are the most
Eurosceptic generation.
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Calls for Britain to scrap the Pound and join the euro, after its rise in
value, are rebutted
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Jacques Santer's European Commission is up to its old tricks. Possible
corruption at the heart of the EC is still being covered-up.
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It's really been a rotten couple of weeks for the euro-luvvies. One
bad news story after another. The problems are coming home to roost, while
the so-called "benefits" of euro membership are just not
happening.
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54% of Germans want the Deutschmark back and now dub the new currency the
“teuro” from the German word “teuer” for expensive.
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Statement in response to Kenneth Clarke's launch of the Conservative
pro-euro 'Tory European Network'
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Another ill thought-out move by the EU will add more costs to business and
hurt those who most need the support of business
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The delegates at the Convention seem less than willing to be there
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The result of the Hungarian elections show that the EU's concerns were
unfounded and that their interference in the democratic process of a
nation-state was unwarranted.
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In 2003 sweden will have a referendum on joining the euro, but as Margit
Gennser points-out, euro membership will create major economic problems.
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The EU has missed an historic opportunity to help those countries that have
only just become liberated from the Soviet sphere of influence.
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The failed attempts of the left-leaning European Union to interfere in
Hungary's democratic process proves its bias agains centre-right parties
and demonstrates that it has little respect for democracy when the people make
the 'wrong' choice.
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We must offer young voters something to believe in, something to fight for.
This will be their tag of identity, and will contrast with the shallowness of
the Europhiles
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Baroness Thatcher has dramatically moved forward the boundaries of the
European debate
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The British Government and the Brussels bureaucracy hammer the final nail
into the coffin of Britain's once mighty fishing fleet
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Brussels plans to codify its left-leaning authoritarianism
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The European Commission uses the the 9/11 tradegy in the United States to
increase it's own power - at the expense of freedom
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The federalist end-game of European integration is intended to be completed
at the Inter-Governmenmtal Conference of 2004. Yet, this can create problems
for those who are pushing for a single European state.
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The Road to Nice - Flexibility and Enlargement
by The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PC
(Publishers: Action Centre for Europe Ltd)
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Speech by Jonathan Collett to a meeting of the Society for Individual
Freedom on Tuesday 13th April '99
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The devastating consequences of Euro membership on Britain's
independent fiscal policy
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An article originally published in The Times, December 1, 1998
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A speech to the Political Action Group for Europe on 23rd May 1998 by the
Senior Partner at Gouldens City Solicitors
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Bernard Connolly explains why Tony Blair should retain a floating currency
and resist the temptation to raise taxes.
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