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Ok Cameron, it’s time to fess up

Now then Mr Cameron,

Here is your 2012 EU implementation work programme courtesy of the EU Commission. In case you may have misunderstood any of the original French and German instructions that you would have received in Brussels last month, I have copied below the full list. This follows on and is in addition to the VAT plans mentioned in my previous post.

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The brightest and best?

The European Commission ‘prides’ itself on selecting only the brightest and best to work in Brussels, especially when it comes to their languages skills… so imagine my amusement when looking at this blog’s stats and seeing the following search term..

Education? Seems you get what you politically pay for.

 

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An insight into EU Budget waste

As the EU Commission pleads poverty, demands an ever bigger budget and is planning and scheming on how to rob taxpayers of even more of their hard earned money, this snippet comes to light to show just how inept the Commission really is, and how greedy the ICT industry have become.

There are 33 EU Directorates in all. It is clear that they won’t all need the same information flow, although there is a lot of commonality between much of them. So how many ICT systems do you think they have?

23? 33? 230? 500? or 2,498? If you chose the latter, you would be right.

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EU funding middle east violence with your taxes

The European Commission announced Monday that it granted the Palestinian Authority an additional €115 Million ($165.11M) to help in development projects in the Palestinian territories.

The only visible development projects in the Palestinian territories appear to be missile production, with over 40 missiles launched from Gaza into Israel over the past weekend.

The new EU donation increases the amount of development support granted the Palestinian Authority this year to €300 Million, and Euro for Euro it seems to match the number of missiles launched into Israel so far this year, so the question really does arise, if the EU is funding the violence in the middle East, how can the people of Europe make the unelected morons in Brussels stop it.

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Barroso lives it up on your tax

Everytime I read something like this it makes my blood boil. The unelected ‘President’ of an organisation whose only role in life is telling you how to live your life in excruciating detail whilst spending your tax money like water, an open tap with a broken washer.

So where do I find this kind of information, the BBC? The Times? The Telegraph? or perhaps The Sun… no, they don’t rock the boat, they rarely tell you how much of your hard earned is being pissed up the wall by these unelected authoritarian nobody’s. The details were uncovered in research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, so it rules out the cut & paste propaganda publications above anyway.

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EU Commission secret deal undermines EU privacy laws

A leaked copy of the latest draft of a proposed “Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use transfer of Passenger Name Record [PNR] data to the United States Department of Homeland Security” has been published by the civil liberties watchdog and investigative reporting group Statewatch.

The leaked draft “agreement” fails to satisfy the criteria set by the European Parliament for its ratification of such an agreement, including that any PNR agreement should:

  1. Take the form of a duly ratified international treaty binding on all parties. (The draft “agreement” is not a treaty, and would not be binding, as discussed in more detail below.)
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The EUSSRs march to supreme control.

Two things today are marked out as being significant in the EUSSRs march to supreme control.

Firstly

This report from Out-Law.com

The European Commission has published documents which it hopes will result in governments across Europe standardising the way they run their administrations. The Commission said the documents would help in making government services interoperable.

The Commission’s European Interoperability Strategy (EIS) and the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) will, it hopes, help EU citizens to interact with governments across the EU’s 27 member states without having to negotiate different kinds of systems.

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UK Coalition speed up EU integration

There was a press release from the EU Commission today that caught my eye via the Albion Alliance presents site, which is a source for raw no spin EU related information.

The press release, which I doubt you will find any reference to in the UK press, was issued by Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier who said:

It’s essential that European rules aimed at making the Internal Market work are implemented in Member States – in time and properly.

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EU Tax – I shall not pay

Jon Worth blogs Why EU taxation is actually a good idea. Sorry, but I just have to disagree, I cannot see any good in it at all.

Jon says:

Think of what the EU does and how it is paid for.

I have to say Jon, I do little else. I can find no benefit to any member state of the overbearing, over paid, over zealous and over dictatorial paper pushers in Brussels, doing nothing that member states could not manage to do at a far lesser cost on their own, if they saw any use or benefit to the vast majority of regulations that stream out of Brussels to begin with.

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