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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:15 |
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SIR – The suggestion from government spin doctors that the proposals for EU-wide financial regulatory institutions are “technical” in nature and of little practical significance would be laughable were the proposal not so serious. They will mean a complete loss of power for the existing UK regulators. The measures voted on in Strasbourg at the July Plenary session and in large part enthusiastically supported by UK Coalition MEPs, will have the following binding legal effects:
They will be law with primacy over the law of all member states.
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Friday, 02 July 2010 13:07 |
What is the EU doing to stop the destruction of Europe's manufacturing base? This was the question EFD Group co-President Francesco Speroni put as he met the Belgium Primeminister along with the Council of Presidents of the EU Parliamentary Groups recently.
Mr Speroni asked the Belgian Presidency: "What will you do to protect European industries against unfair competition from countries not respecting the same social, environmental and job security norms as the E.U. ?" He was meeting at le Palais d'Egmont on June 24th and reacting to the remarkable fall in the EU manufacturing base in the last two decades with many jobs going to developing countries.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:07 |
Mr. Lorenzo Fontana MEP deplores the rampant intolerance.  "This episode is about racial discrimination and because of that it has to be pursued by the judicial authorities". This is the terse and unequivocal answer of Mr. Fontana MEP to the posters exposed outside by almost thirty shopkeepers saying: "After the last insults against Neapolitans, people belonging to Lega Nord are not welcome anymore. By the direction". This episode was widely covered by the press and continued being topical after the Home Secretary, Roberto Maroni, went to Naples to attend the concert of the national Police band at 'San Carlo' theatre.
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