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| Monday 23 January 2012 |
Frank Furedi
Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary!
Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.
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| Wednesday 9 November 2011 |
Mick Hume
Berlusconi: don’t turn a scoundrel into a scapegoat
Whatever else he might have done, Italy’s prime minister is hardly to blame for Europe’s crisis of capitalism and political leadership.
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| Thursday 3 November 2011 |
Mick Hume
Beware of Greeks bearing votes!
The Euro-elites’ horror at the proposal to hold a Greek referendum on the bailout shows that Europe is at risk of democratic bankruptcy.
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| Wednesday 26 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
EU referendum: democracy is not a ‘distraction’
We cannot suspend democratic debate about Europe’s future while watching the political elites bungle the economic crisis.
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| Tuesday 4 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
Euro-crisis: dictatorship of the bean-counters
The bankrupting of democracy is too high a price to pay for the Euro-elites’ scheme to save their system through more austerity and integration.
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| Monday 19 September 2011 |
Jason Walsh
EU integration is the last thing we need
No matter how crisis-ridden and corrupt the EU becomes, the elites’ solution is always: ‘More EU!’
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| Wednesday 20 July 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Why the EU is so clueless about the Euro crisis
Insulated from the demos and unpractised in the art of political leadership, it is little wonder EU officials can do little to address Euro woes.
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| Monday 23 May 2011 |
Frank Furedi
The new buzzword in Brussels: ‘Crisis’
The EU is beset with problems, but it is so cut off from the electorate that it lacks the popular legitimacy to solve them.
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| Monday 16 May 2011 |
Frank Furedi
How EU officials simply forgot about Christmas
The European oligarchy’s failure to include Christmas in a diary for schoolkids sums up their separation from the demos.
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| Monday 24 January 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The EU-surping of democracy in Ireland
Brendan O’Neill reports from Dublin on what has really rocked Irish politics: the elbowing aside of the public by Brussels bureaucrats.
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| Monday 22 November 2010 |
Mick Hume
The return of the Banana Republic of Ireland?
Not really. Ireland’s economic crisis appears more like the prime example of the travails of Western capitalism.
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| Friday 19 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The Republic of Ireland: colonised by commissioners
As part of the financial bailout, Ireland has been annexed by the Great Power that is the Brussels bureaucracy. Where are the protests?
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| Thursday 6 May 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The Greek crisis and the blame game
Greece’s woes have revealed a Euro-elite more interested in blame-shifting than tackling the economic crisis.
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| Tuesday 24 November 2009 |
Bruno Waterfield
Now all of Europe is governed by a Kremlin
With the appointment of its new president, the EU abandoned even the sham of democratic legitimacy.
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| Monday 23 November 2009 |
Tim Black
The European Union: a tyranny of no-marks
The problem with ‘our’ new president and foreign minister is not that they are nobodies, but that they are unelected, unaccountable nobodies.
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| Tuesday 10 November 2009 |
Mick Hume
It’s Europe, Dave, but not as we know it
Europe might be back to haunt Cameron’s Tories – but this time things look very different for the EU, Britain, the Tory Party and the rest of us.
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| Monday 5 October 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
A defeat for the democratic instinct
The Second Irish Referendum: the Irish people have spoken, yes, but in the voice of someone put into a headlock by far more powerful forces.
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| Monday 5 October 2009 |
Jason Walsh
‘Both sides indulged in scaremongering’
Jason Walsh reports from Dublin where it seems neither the Yes camp nor the No camp voted with much enthusiasm.
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| Monday 5 October 2009 |
Bruno Waterfield
A hollow victory for the Yes campaigners
Bruno Waterfield reports from Brussels on how the EU’s determination to ‘win’ the Irish vote has damaged its standing.
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| Monday 17 August 2009 |
Jason Walsh
EU vote: the opposition will not be televised
Ireland’s scrapping of the equal airtime requirement ahead of the second Lisbon Treaty referendum diminishes debate.
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