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Sick of “EU doesn’t sign off books, therefore corrupt/evil/useless/nasty” (delete as applicable)

By Jon on December 2, 2009

Ho, ho, here we go again. A question posed in the House of Commons by Philip Davies (Con) as cited by the Open Europe blog:
Given that the accounts of the EU have not been signed off by the auditors for 15 years running, why do the Government keep giving more and more money to the EU? [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, UK Politics | Tagged Conservative Party, Court of Auditors, David Cameron, EU Budget, Open Europe, Philip Davies | 6 Responses

Record €1.06 billion fine for Intel makes it the 18th highest contributor to the EU budget

By Jon on May 14, 2009

The European Commission today announced a record €1.06 billion fine for Intel for anti-competitive behaviour – essentially for striking deals with PC manufacturers to prevent them buying chips from rival AMD. More details from European Voice here. €1.06 billion is a hefty fine, and even on its own would equate to just under 1% of the EU’s [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Technology | Tagged EU Budget, European Commission, Intel | 5 Responses

Beith about the budget – it’s the flood aid scenario revisited

By Jon on January 21, 2009

I happened to catch a few moments of PMQs today, and Alan Beith asked a question about how EU funds were being denied to the North East, while Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were still eligible for the same funds, essentially unused cash from the European Commission £178bn economic stimulus package. The press release about [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, UK Politics | Tagged Alan Beith, EU Budget, Fiona Hall, Gordon Brown, Treasury | 1 Response

More about the EU flood aid payments

By Jon on May 15, 2008

Things have moved on a bit in the argument about EU money to the UK to help regions hit by floods last summer, the subject of this post.

NEW – Helga Truepel MEP is now on the warpath on this one, having written a press release on the issue (EN | DE) demanding clarifications from the UK government, and [...]

Posted in Cricket, EU Politics, Euroblog, Running, Skating, Sports Technology, Technology, Travel, UK Politics | Tagged EU Budget, Flood Aid | 9 Responses