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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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| Thursday 9 July 2009 |
Tim Black
Vote ‘Yes’ or the economy gets it
Officials are using financial threats to get the right result in the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
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| Wednesday 10 June 2009 |
Frank Furedi
How EU bureaucrats are destroying public life
A majority of Europeans refused to take part in the EU elections not because they don’t understand the EU, but because they do.
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| Wednesday 10 June 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Will the Pirates stir up the debate on freedom?
The support for Sweden’s Pirate Party was partly a protest vote against the mainstream, and partly a cry for liberty.
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| Thursday 4 June 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Taking the politics of fear to a new low
Unable to inspire voters, the isolated, illiberal oligarchs of the EU are using the threat of fantasy fascism to try to force us to be pro-EU.
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| Tuesday 21 April 2009 |
Tim Black
‘Why we’re standing in the EU elections’
The British head of Libertas tells spiked about their campaign to fix Europe’s ‘democratic deficit’.
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| Wednesday 11 March 2009 |
Tim Black
‘The leaders of the EU are so uninspiring’
Declan Ganley, hated by the Irish elite for opposing the Lisbon Treaty, makes some good points about democracy.
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| Monday 8 December 2008 |
Josie Appleton
Are EU deaf or what?
The author of a new EU Phrasebook, launched in Brussels today, analyses European leaders’ utter inability to understand the word ‘No’.
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| Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
Tara McCormack
Hell hath no fury like a Eurocrat scorned
A leaked briefing reveals why officials think they lost the Irish referendum: because there’s ‘too much’ press freedom.
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| Monday 23 June 2008 |
Frank Furedi
After the Irish ‘No’ vote: pathologising populism
The EU elites’ Mugabe-style disdain for their populist opponents only shows how cut off they are from the people of Europe.
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| Monday 16 June 2008 |
Frank Furedi
Now it’s clear: the EU is an alien imposition in Europe
They have been libelled as an uneducated ‘horde’, yet Irish voters’ rejection of the Lisbon Treaty is a brilliant blow against the EU oligarchy.
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| Monday 16 June 2008 |
Kevin Rooney
‘After all the money you got. Ungrateful b*stards’
DUBLIN: Kevin Rooney reports on the Irish elite’s fury at the ‘unspeakable’ mass who dared to reject the Treaty.
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| Monday 16 June 2008 |
Bruno Waterfield
‘The plan now is to quarantine Ireland’
BRUSSELS: The Brussels correspondent for the Daily Telegraph reports on the EU’s plans to forge ahead.
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| Monday 16 June 2008 |
Gerry Feehily
‘The Irish are not fun-loving goblins’
PARIS: An Irish writer in France tells of his heated TV debates with the Sarkozian critics of Ireland’s child-like voters.
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