Tag Archives: EU Budget

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The EU spends 40.4% of its budget on agriculture. EU support for agriculture is 0.404% of GDP. Or €51.1 billion. Take your pick.

If you’re astute you will realise that all the numbers in the heading of this blog entry are the same. They are different ways of saying the same thing, namely…

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Nicholas Watt falls for EU Fresh Start ruse from a report that’s not publicly available

On the Guardian website today there’s a piece entitled “David Cameron to warn François Hollande against challenging EU rebate” by Nicholas Watt. At the start it’s a bit of a…

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Today’s European Parliament budget move: a welcome alternative to austerity, or pissing in the wind?

The EU institutions are in the middle of their annual budget ping-pong. The European Commission proposes the annual budget, and then the European Parliament and Council of the European Union…

5% EU budget hike? Not as simple as Cameron would like you to believe | LabourList.org

5% EU budget hike? Not as simple as Cameron would like you to believe | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org. 5% EU budget hike? Not as simple as Cameron would like…

Tim Montgomerie needs some relationship with the facts before attacking the EU

Tim Montgomerie has written an astounding piece at Conservative Home, entitled “We need to address the abusive relationship rather than just stop the latest punch from Brussels“. For Tim, like…

The FT – the pin that can pop the Brussels bubble

The FT series this week looking at the EU’s structural funds is – with some caveats due to choice of words – decent investigative journalism. It takes a systematic approach…

FT’s report on EU structural funds: some thoughts on vocabulary, openness and administrative structures

Thanks to a few tweets from @farmsubsidy and a chat with Nosemonkey yesterday I knew I had to look out for today’s FT. Their series, researched together with The Bureau…

State of Tory eurosceptic debate

There’s an interesting piece at Centre Right on Conservative Home that looks at Cameron’s posturing on the EU budget last week (making a similar point to mine about his ‘win’)…