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Growth and Stability EU style

Posted on February 3, 2012 by IanPJ


The Hungarian national airline Malev has folded after the European Commission ordered Malev to repay various forms of state aid received from 2007 to 2010.

"Despite its best interests the owner can no longer provide financial resources for the operation of the airline in the wake of the condemning decision of the European Commission," an airline statement said.

The sums involved amounted to 38 billion forints (130m euros; $171m; £108m), a sum equal to its entire 2010 revenue. The carrier employs 2,600 people and is responsible for close to half of all air traffic at Budapest Liszt Ferenc airport.

Part of the Oneworld airline alliance, which also includes American Airlines and British Airways, Malev has a leased fleet of 22 passenger aircraft.

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When you go cold this winter…

Posted on September 14, 2011 by ianpj

When you go cold this winter… just remember that it is the unelected European Commission that has taken upon itself the monopoly to negotiate all and any energy contracts throughout the EU.

Russia has started active discouraging the new plans of construction of Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TAG) between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

Yesterday in Moscow, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s official representative Alexander Lukashevich stated that the Russian Ministry expressed regret over the EU Council’s decision to approve the European Commission’s mandate on signing of a legally binding agreement for implementation of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project.

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The Article 36 Committee

Posted on August 31, 2010 by ianpj

Lets go back in time a bit. Back to the days when Tony Blair ruled supreme in the UK, and not long after the horrendous events of 9/11.

The UK, like most other western nations started to implement a flood of anti-terror legislation. But who wrote it? (it is all virtually identical in just about every country), and who checked to see if it was being implemented properly.

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EU Commission sponsors Global Governance Programme

Posted on June 10, 2010 by ianpj

At 11.30 a.m. on 18 June, President José Manuel Durao Barroso will deliver a speech at the Badia Fiesolana near Florence, entitled “European Union and Multilateral Global Governance”.

This is the Inaugural Lecture of the new Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute.

I await with interest what this unelected Maoist Barroso has to say next week about why our tax money is being spent training our youth in the dark art of Global Governance.

This is what the European University Institute has to say about this course.

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Deliver Us From Evil

Posted on June 7, 2010 by ianpj

The Commission of the European Union has issued a communication that bears close resemblance to any document that was forthcoming from the Politburo of Soviet Russia. This ‘Action Plan’ states that

“….the European Union has more than ever the duty to protect and project our values and to defend our interests…………ensuring that citizens can exercise their rights and fully benefit from European integration.”

to which must firstly be pointed out that use of the word ‘our’ by the Commission is perfectly acceptable only to them – because they sure as hell ain’t mine!

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Financial Crisis: EU creates its own West Lothian Question

Posted on May 8, 2010 by ianpj

The European Commission is to set out next Wednesday its plans for creating a permanent bail-out fund for eurozone states, officials in Brussels confirmed Friday.

The eurozone has been shaken to the core by Greece’s financial meltdown, which forced it to stump up an emergency 110-billion-euro rescue loan. The euro’s original rules were meant to ensure that such rescues were never needed.

The fund would be designed to bail out eurozone states which are threatened with bankruptcy. However, the proposals would have to be approved by those EU member states in the Eurozone and the European Parliament which represents ALL member states, and it could be amended in the process.

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Digital Economy Act & the ACTA – it stinks of rotten fish

Posted on April 11, 2010 by ianpj

Scandinavian blogger Sköne Oke informs us of the following:

1. The Fish mandate (“SEC(2007) 1377″): The European Commission sent a draft recommendation to the Council to authorize the Commission to negotiate ACTA. Yes, they wrote their own negotiating directive. The infamous “Article 133 group” had it on their agenda, (the Commission was forced to provide a new proposal for a negotiating mandate cmp 2.)), then the Presidency presented a “compromise” which was rubberstamped by the Art 133 group, Coreper-2 and finally adopted via the Fisheries Council without discussions (14 April 2008).

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Party Election Manifestos #ge2010

Posted on April 9, 2010 by ianpj

Well that’s it. This rotten parliament has finally been washed up and is now closed for business.

As the candidates disburse to their constituencies to begin searching out voters to con into backing them, lets take a look at the 3 main party manifestos to see where they stand.

Search as I may I cannot find consolidated versions, there are policies here, policies there, but very little in a coherent form that we can compare.

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European Citizens Initiative

Posted on March 31, 2010 by ianpj

Unsurprisingly The Guardian is pushing the European Commission line on this. Maros Sefcovic an EC functionary writes today, and from the numbers and tone of the comments, I am certainly not the only one to see through the faux democracy of this proposal.

My previous post The 3 Amigos & the deficit has the details.

This whole ECI stunt is democracy Soviet style, certainly not the UK or Western style of democracy that we are hypocritically exporting to the Arab and Muslim world by force of arms.

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The 3 Amigos & the deficit

Posted on March 30, 2010 by ianpj

While  Clegg, Darling & Osborne spent time on UK TV last night arguing the toss on how to divide up the booty like a gang of Mexican bandits, not one of the 3 Amigo’s addressed the issues that are important to ordinary voters, the reduction of the deficit, and I’m not just referring to the budget deficit which they failed to tackle but also the democratic deficit.

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