EU

Moldova: a realignment
Gary Cartwright
Sunday, August 23, 2009
President Medvedev met with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, the world's only elected communist head of state, on August 21st. Discussions apparently centred on economic affairs, with the Russian President lamenting the deterioration in relations between the two nations in recent years.


Concern in Europe over UK Election
Nicolas J White
Friday, May 7, 2010
There is deep concern in Brussels over the outcome of the UK general election. The election has resulted in no party holding an overall majority although the Conservatives are now the largest single party in the House of Commons with the Labour party a relatively distant second and the Liberal democrats a very distant third.
EU Threatens Economic Terrorism Against Sri Lankans
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

By Dr Patrick Basham

A young Sri Lankan woman doesn’t earn much making lingerie for high street shoppers in the UK. But what she earns makes all the difference between a chance at a decent life and the hopelessness that is the lot of so many in the developing world.

VAT Harmonisation Will Bail-out Governments
Chris White
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The European Union is harmonising VAT across the 27 member states. A 20 percent norm will be introduced probably by June with registration also likely to be harmonised at the Belgian standard of €5000 earnings per annum.
New cross-border rules introduced on January 1will prove a cash cow for troubled national exchequers to be followed by harmonised rates and registration.
The British Conservatives and the EU: Behind the Rhetoric
Janek Lasocki
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The EU has always been controversial in Britain but since 1997 Labour government policy has been to maintain traditional ‘red lines’ to protect British interests while at the same time t
Turning against Europe
Vincent van Borne
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
There is no doubt about who “won” the European elections in the Netherlands. The Freedom Party (Partij voor de Vrijheid PVV)  led by Geert Wilders entered the European Parliament with 17% of the votes and four out of the twenty-five Dutch seats with a clearly anti-EU programme.
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