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SURVEY: European Future Leaders: Is the Young Generation Ready to Take the Lead?
Chris White
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Young people believe in a European future but are unable to identify a European leadership. In a survey young people identified Americans such as Bill Gates as leaders but were largely unable to name any individual Europeans or group.

Announcing, at the European Business Summit, the results of a survey by the organization Think Young its founder Andrea Gerosa – aged 28 – revealed that young people surveyed think there is too much bureaucracy in Europe.

 

What Kind of Future for Finance?
Chris White
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
A safe, risk-free financial future for Europe would create serious problems for growth and the economy. A world of limited risk would damage entrepreneurism, and the world following the recent financial crisis should be built on sound foundations without strangling growth. This was the clear and resounding message from speakers at the European Business Summit workshop on the theme ‘What Kind of Future for Finance?’.
Press Principles
Chris White
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
As the European Parliament debates setting up a Pravda style institutional news agency at public expense we are happy to report that ethics appear to be returning to the national media in the UK.
Principles that once ruled have been sadly lacking over the past decades but Hugh Muir the Guardian diarist should be applauded.
We Told You So
Chris White
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The Conservative led coalition with Liberal Democrats in the UK has said repeatedly that it wants to "engage" with Europe. It certainly has!
As EU Reporter has been saying for several months the EU is driving harmonisation of VAT at 20 percent. The increase in the UK was inevitable.
An Apology
Chris White
Friday, June 4, 2010
It has come to a pretty pass when security in the European Parliament is so lax that forged documents purporting to be from a political group are able to be widely circulated. The press has enough problems without being put in jeopardy by such subversive material.
Odds Against Cameron's New Group
Chris White
Monday, May 31, 2010
With David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, saying he is “working well with French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkhozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel the odds on the Conservative Party rejoining the European Peoples Party (EPP) in the European Parliament were already shortening.
With the result of the Czech election the odds have now gone heavily to on and are lengthening dramatically against the survival of the Conservative led European and Conse
Hostage To Fortune
Chris White
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Not so much ‘joining’ more, as they say in French ‘enjoin’. As George Osborn, Britain’s new Chancellor, breezed into Brussels the relationship between the UK Liberal Democrats (LibDem) and the European Parliament’s largest, and most influential group, the European Peoples Party came sharply into focus.
EU Reporter had been informed, “reliably” that the LibDems would join the EPP in Strasbourg this week.
Hostage To Fortune
Chris White
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Not so much ‘joining’ more, as they say in French ‘enjoin’. As George Osborn, Britain’s new Chancellor, breezed into Brussels the relationship between the UK Liberal Democrats (LibDem) and the European Parliament’s largest, and most influential group, the European Peoples Party came sharply into focus.
EU Reporter had been informed, “reliably” that the LibDems would join the EPP in Strasbourg this week.
Lib Dems to Join the EPP?
Chris White
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
British Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament are to join the European Peoples Party (EPP) senior sources tell us, the largest group in the Brussels parliament.
Cameron's Next Problem
Chris White
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The twists and turns of the UK’s post election trauma will have a curious impact on the European Parliament.
The gravy train rolls on.
Chris White
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Airlines are getting back to normal, ordinary people have found ways around the volcanic eruption to airline services and Europe is counting the cost.
It's a long way to tip a rarity
Chris White
Monday, April 19, 2010
In what must be an historic decision the European Parliament’s administration decided Monday to hold a shortened Plenary Session in Strasbourg and not to vote on any proposals because only about half the members were able to attend.
This rare event, widely tipped by Brussels observers, caused by the massive cloud of volcanic ash following the Icelandic eruption that led to the ban on air
Dark clouds over Euro Parliament
Chris White
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Amid growing anger among members of the European Parliament their administration is insisting that political groups must meet in Strasbourg Monday in order to decide whether or not the regular plenary session should be cancelled.
The Parliament administration has told MEPs that transport is being arranged to get them from Brussels to Strasbourg but some members have furiously pointed put that travelling either to Brussels or Strasbourg would
Welcome to the real world
Chris White
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Eurocrats are continuing to arrive in Brussels with horror stories about their journeys home by coach, rail or hired car. The response from ordinary members of the public is “welcome to the real world”.
Pampered by the comfort of airline business travel some encountered refusal by airlines to continue paying for hotel rooms.
April 2010 edition
Chris White
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The world is widely predict to be facing increased population and food shortages. We focus on the debate about GM crops. Also how Britons locked out of their property in Bulgaria are defending their rights. We also look at claims that Fairtrade may not be all it claims.

EDITORIAL

Media Granules in the gravy

Outmanoeuvring Cameron
Chris White
Saturday, March 13, 2010

 

The question about Edward McMillan-Scott's decision to join the UK's Liberal Democrats is not his own personal ambitions but rather what it says about the political alignments in the European Parliament.

 

February 2010 edition
Chris White
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

We focus on the growing media crisis in Europe and demands that public money should support "independent" media. Also, industry opposition to the up-coming RoHS Directive, calls for action on tobacco smuggling, energy and some lessons for the EU institutions arising from the Commissioner hearing in the European Parliament.

In this edition:

Putting Irish Unity On The Agenda
Chris White
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The peace process and the Good Friday Agreement — supported by the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland, north and south, and in Britain, has positively transformed the situation in Ireland, and the relationship between Britain and Ireland.
A far reaching agreement which has led to historic power sharing in the north of Ireland and clear mechanisms for ensuring equality, rights and parity of esteem, the Good Friday Agreement also enshrines the principle of
VAT Harmonisation Will Bail-out Governments
Chris White
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The European Union is harmonising VAT across the 27 member states. A 20 percent norm will be introduced probably by June with registration also likely to be harmonised at the Belgian standard of €5000 earnings per annum.
New cross-border rules introduced on January 1will prove a cash cow for troubled national exchequers to be followed by harmonised rates and registration.
November 2009 edition
Chris White
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

In this edition :

WHO WILL LOSE THE LEAST?

Nick Assinder reports from Westminster on the up-coming

election prospects.