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Jobs and 300bn Euro stimulus priorities for the new European Commission
After months of political wrangling over the appointment to the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker and his team officially replaced his predecessor, Jose Manuel Barroso, and his Commission on Saturday. The first vice president, former Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, is to serve as Juncker's right-hand man. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBloody foreigners telling us what to do , whatever next?
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0The German controlled EU is dragging the World Economy down. Germany is using other weaker EU states to protect its trade surplus and support its manufacturing industries. Time to call a halt on this expensive EU nonsense and take our Country back.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jeeez what are you guys waiting for to pull the plug off the EU monster ¿??
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Case of keeping the eye on the prize. We don't want out. We want in, but in a community which just focuses on the “common market' aspects, without all the burocratic ”when is a sausage really a sausage” rubbish. The threat to get out is only to try to get our continental friends to back off from their European Empire aspirations, which most people want nothing to do with, and instead aim for a loose federation with all the economic benefits and minimal red tape. There are some arguments for rationalization of defence, but that is extremely complicated. Nato, which we should try to keep (if only because it keeps the US involved), needs to have its role redefined, and until that happens the European defence force remains hard to get off the ground. Otherwise Brussels and its supporters in France and Germany need to scale back. They need to accept that no-one in Europe considers themselves to be European first and their own nationality second. Nationalism, and in some cases regionalism within those nations, is going to come first for the forseeable future. If anyone has any doubt all they have to do is to look at the fiasco that was the proposed European Constitution.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So we don't pull the plug. But we do engage in substantive negotiations with Brussels while at the same time making sure that member nations fully understand our position and how that position can benefit them. And we do make it clear that our intention to pull the plug if they do not come to their senses is not just an idle threat
We need to get out now before they completely take over the UK finances by taxing us even more for “success”.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The EU will never get a success except for lining their own pockets.
Dear Mr Juncker
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where on earth are you going to get 300 billion Euros from? France, Spain Greece don't think so.
The UK should never have been part of the EU. The EU as it stands today is doomed.
Nov 04th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get out now when they getting is good.
@4. Do you understand that the next 5-10 years, unless the EU backs off, will see the beginning of the next european war? The British people will not take much more. OUR money is OURS. We might be prepared to contribute a certain amount to tosspots in deep trouble because they don't know what they're doing. But there will be no DEMANDS. Here are some alternatives. The British people come FIRST. Migrants not permitted. Unless they contribute at least £10,000 per person per year. No 'welfare benefits', of any sort, for at least 20 years. It works like this. No citizenship/nationality, no housing, no child benefits, no tax credits, no 'black economy' jobs. Nothing. Two months or you're out. £5,000 per person 'settlement' deposit paid by migrant. To be used for airfares. Evasion means a 'work camp'. Paid work at the rate of £1 per hour. Less costs of food, accommodation, tools, electricity, gas, water, guards. Migrants don't like it? Don't come here!
Nov 04th, 2014 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 07 Yankeeboy - how doomed is it ? Merkel draws a line in the sand concerning Brit attempts to limit the cost of providing an economic safety net for every vagrant in Europe, but pays little attention to the far more serious deviations from budgetary policy by the French and the Italians. One rule for us and another for those people living on that island over there whom we never really liked (for obvious reasons) and who had the nerve to get out from under and keep their own currency when we decreed that all Europe should come under German economic (and therefore political) management. If the humiliating experience of being unable to come close to agreeing on a European Constitution (a sign by itself of the total lack of uniformity among members when it comes to what the Union is and should be) is not enough, then the inability to come up with a formula to (s)elect a president to replace the existing ridiculous game of musical chairs, the expensive and no less ridiculous ineffectiveness of the European Parliament, and the need to operate in no less than twenty four official languages must surely suffice as evidence as to the extent to which this intellectual experiment merits our scorn and derision. The behemoth carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. Merkel seems to think the free movement of labour is a make or break issue, is now actually prepared to see the Brits leave if they are not prepared to accept Merkel's judgement on this point. Wonder if Merkel knows how to play the fiddle ?
Nov 04th, 2014 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9
Nov 04th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The gravy train that keeps on giving, no official audit in how many years , so many fingers in the pie, turning up at parliament to clock in and 10 mins later clock out. say no more.
Enough is enough. It's time to leave
Nov 04th, 2014 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's time to say “Goodbye” to Camer-moron and his little B*tch Nick Clegg.
It's time for some common sense politics.
It's time to vote UKIP and get out of the hell that is the EU.
EU auditors refuse to sign off more than £100billion of its own spending
Nov 05th, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Critics attack the EU for demanding that David Cameron pays a £1.7 billion bill despite an official audit failing to give a clean bill of health to more than £100 billion of Brussels spending
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11209248/EU-auditors-refuse-to-sign-off-more-than-100billion-of-its-own-spending.html
According to the annual report of the European Court of Auditors, seen by The Telegraph, £5.5 billion of the EU budget last year was misspent because of controls on spending that were deemed to be only “partially effective” by experts.
The audit, published this morning, found that £109 billion out of a total of £117 billion spent by the EU in 2013 was ”affected by material error”.
It means that the Brussels accounts have not been given the all clear for 19 years running.
Treasury sources said that the disclosure shows why the EU needs “urgent reform”.
Out out out out out out ??
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I think that France is about to give the EU way more head aches than the UK ever did.
Nov 05th, 2014 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29686257
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