MAIN FOCUS: EU budget power games | 17/11/2010 from euro|topics Negotiations on the EU Budget in Brussels have met with resistance from several member countries and run aground. The press complains that this wrangling for power blocks important new projects in the EU. Barroso’s case of the Budget Blues by Open Europe blog team After … Read more
Irish resisting bail-out pressure from BBC News | Europe | World Edition The Irish Republic insists it does not need financial assistance from the EU amid speculation that a bail-out is increasingly likely. MAIN FOCUS: Ireland threatened by debt crisis | 15/11/2010 from euro|topics The Irish government is no longer excluding the possibility of asking … Read more
A Bird’s Eye View – Halloween Ghosts for Christmas – Lisbon resurrected from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN On the eve of Halloween, EU Heads of State met and decided to bring out the ghost of the Lisbon Treaty once again. EU citizens and European law ? Introduction by Alain Lamassoure MEP by Grahnlaw One of … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: The Islamisation of Europe is a red herring | 23/09/2010 from euro|topics The success of the right-wing populists in Sweden is being interpreted in public debate as a sign of growing xenophobia directed above all against Muslims. But commentators say fears of an Islamisation of Europe are unreasonable and distract from the issues … Read more
Bundesbank calls for dismissal of Sarrazin from FT.com – World, Europe Germany’s Bundesbank says it will ask Christian Wulff, the country’s president, to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin, a board member who caused outrage by saying Jews shared ‘a certain gene’ and Muslims were unwilling to fit into German society Wilders pulls out as Dutch talks fail … Read more
Czech President Vaclav Klaus (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hold a press conference in Barvikha, outside Moscow. Klaus said he would not drop objections to the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty, despite mounting pressure from EU leaders to sign. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has spent half a million euros fighting for a Yes vote on the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland was voting Friday on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty in a crunch second referendum. (AFPTV)