Tajani Goes Green
Commissioner Tajani’s pressure has paid off and the European Commission is creating a DG level working group to coordinate work on decarbonising all transport nodes. Following the lead of the reinvigorated President Barroso, the first meeting is due to take place in early November.
In his ‘Political Guidelines for the Next Commission’, Barroso declared that the [...]
“A Right Wing Coup”
Tory Euro-skeptics power grab endangers ECR Group and UK Election chances
Pro European Tories are mounting a counter attack after what they see as “a right wing coup” that handed control of a planned transnational party and think tank to a group of Euro-skeptics, led by Daniel Hannan MEP and dashed Conservative Central Office hopes of [...]
The European President – A Modest Proposal
It has been a long time since the Brussels scene was so abuzz, for nothing livens up the city more that a good session of gossip, intrigue, plotting and scheming, for this is what the EU does best. The long running soap opera of choosing the President is made even better by adding a High [...]
Few Answers At Question Time
The debut of Nick Griffin MEP on the BBC’s Question time debate had generated an angry response from his opponents, who wanted him boycotted and protested loudly outside the TV studio. the BBC responded that it was not up to a broadcaster to decide which political parties were allowed to participate and this set the [...]
Cameron’s Kaminski Problem Goes Global
The issue of Michal Kaminski and Robert Zile is becoming a huge problem for Britain’s Prime Minister in waiting. His Foreign Secretary, William Hague has just returned from meeting Hillary Clinton and others in the Obama administration and all did not go well.
The State Department is growing more concerned with the Tories, especially in relation [...]
ECR Today, Gone Tomorrow?
The controversy over Michal Kaminski shows no sign of dying down, indeed as the British election campaign has unofficially started, it seems that Labour will keep it alive. This is causing concern to the Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS), who have had discrete chats with the EPP group. So far these have come to nothing, [...]
