Jean-Claude Juncker blocked EU curbs on tax avoidance, cables show (or Why I voted for Brexit episode 1)
Leaked papers reveal that as Luxembourg’s PM, the European commission president obstructed the bloc’s tax reforms efforts The leak will embarrass Jean-Claude Juncker, who has since said he would lead … Continue reading
The secret history of the EU, written on an Italian prison island, reveals why the project is doomed
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER Telegraph 27 AUGUST 2016 • Matteo Renzi, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande on an Italian aircraft carrier off the coast of Ventotene island, where the EU was first … Continue reading
Crippled EU is no longer the ‘anarcho-imperial monster’ we once feared; it’s worse than that
The European Project flamed out as a motivating force in history long ago and is descending into existential crisis. All illusions that the EU can run as a centralised political … Continue reading
Europe’s glory days at an end, warns Juncker
The European Union faces an age of comparative economic decline, while the ‘love’ affair’ of integration is at risk, says Jean-Claude Juncker in downbeat assessment of Europe’s future Luxembourg, which … Continue reading
Theresa May maintains tough stance on ‘economic migrants’
UK home secretary emphasises need for wider European measures to ‘return those people who have no right to be here’ Theresa May with German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere at … Continue reading
Migration crisis: Hungary PM claims Europe is in grip of ‘madness’
Viktor Orbán attacks EU immigration policy as misguided, warning that influx of Muslim refugees poses threat to Europe’s Christian identity Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, says the migration … Continue reading
EU may bring back border controls, Angela Merkel suggests
The German Chancellor says for the first time that the Schengen zone, which allows passport-free travel across mainland Europe, cannot continue in its current form unless other EU countries accept … Continue reading
France terror attack: British railway passengers could be forced to use full body scanners
EU to consider case for airport-style security, including body scanners and CCTV, in wake of botched terror attack on French train Ayoub El-Khazzani. His attack failed, but rail travel may … Continue reading
Eurozone doomed whether Greece leaves or stays, study shows
The single currency is forcing its members further apart and cannot survive in its current form, new analysis shows Membership of the European Union strikes at the existential heart of … Continue reading
Europe is being torn apart – and the torture will be slow
This monetary union without a political one will continue to cause suffering and divide the north from the south People march through Madrid in a show of strength by Spain’s … Continue reading
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