No secret ballot in the European Parliament on the EU budget vote!
So it looks like the European Council has agreed a real-terms cut in the EU budget for the 2014-2020 period. This has, understandably, been labelled unacceptable by the 4 largest…
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De eurostriptease / The Euro striptease – a video on a Flemish MEP’s official Youtube channel
UPDATE 14.30 – the original video, as I suspected, has been pulled from Youtube (it was here). As I stated in my blog post at 10.08 this morning, I downloaded…
Jens Rohde, Master of the univers [sic]
The European Parliament has introduced some new and essentially sensible rules, asking MEPs to declare their financial interests and business dealings prior to their time as MEPs. This is important,…
Martin Schulz: one step forward and one step back on Strasbourg
The good news: President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz seems to have confirmed his commitment to a single seat for the European Parliament in a Swedish radio interview (very…
Charlemagne column in The Economist is the next to have a go at the EP – a few partial replies
It seems the European Parliament can do no right just at the moment. Following hot on the heels of Jack Straw calling for the European Parliament to be abolished, the…
Now we have proof: Richard Howitt is the most manically active MEP
When he’s not getting turfed out of Dale Farm, Labour MEP Richard Howitt seems to also be the most active of Labour’s MEPs in the European Parliament, at least thanks…
Tories seem to have found someone even more barking than Roger Helmer
Today’s good news: Roger Helmer is standing down as a Member of the European Parliament. He says its because he disagrees with nine-tenths of Tory policy, and his statements have…
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