EU Policy
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EADT 'Letter from Brussels' Column 2 - Helping Create Jobs and Economic Growth
January 2012
In Geoffrey's second column, he tackles the question of the "EU Funds" earmarked for the East of England.
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EADT 'Letter from Brussels' Column 1 - Every Crisis is an Opportunity
December 2011
In the first column of the re-instated EADT 'Letter from Brussels', Geoffrey talks about the Eurozone crisis and the profligacy of the EU Budget.
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The Crisis in the EU
The Prime Minister has had to think about many different audiences, his main concern was not to rock the economic boat any more and to remain a serious player in the negotiations at the EU Summit. He assumed the British people would trust him in this – but he underestimated the extent to which the handling of the EU issue is itself a litmus test of trust.
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Ending Excess - Cutting the Costs of the European Parliament
The New Direction report Geoffrey co-authored on cutting costs in the European Parliament
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Article in The Daily Telegraph - An EU military HQ would undermine Nato
An EU military HQ would undermine Nato
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For the EU every crisis is an opportunity. Secret proposals tabled by Lady Ashton, the EU foreign minister and seen by The Daily Telegraph called for a 'permanent civilian-military planning and conduct capability'
As the euro crisis unfolds, those pushing for EU fiscal and economic government have now seen another opportunity to take forward the process of European integration using the Lisbon Treaty's "permanent structured co-operation" to fast-track EU defence policy. You cannot get closer to the bone of national sovereignty than our armed forces.
eDispatch
Have you seen the results from Geoffrey's latest "Dispatch" questionnaire? 97% of respondents wanted to see a major change in Britain's EU membership...
