Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "British Parliament" produced 35 items.
| 1. Animal champion | April 9, 2008 |
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The father of London's would-be mayor and the author of the novel “The Commissioner” looks back at his “most wonderful job” – in the Commission in Brussels. If... |
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| 2. National politics is history - Europe is where the future lies | March 30, 2006 |
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Globalisation is hollowing out national legislatures. The deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation of a country's economy and welfare state shift functions out of the... | |
| 3. Research spending is dear to British hearts | June 30, 2005 |
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair put research firmly on the EU agenda days before the UK was to take the chair of the Council of Ministers. Speaking to the European... | |
| 4. Time to come clean on EU farm subsidies | February 24, 2005 |
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While 2005 has already seen the implementation of a major change in Europe's farm policy, the pressure for further reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be... | |
| 5. Auditors elect greyhaired president in tense contest | January 20, 2005 |
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The European Court of Auditors has a new president. The Austrian member of the court Hubert Weber was elected ahead of rival candidates, Dutchman Maarten Engwirda and... | |
| 6. Hungarian horseman | June 17, 2004 |
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A FAT dictionary gave Péter Bálazs his introduction to Europe. Hungary's first European commissioner recalls that one of his favourite tomes on his family bookshelf... | |
| 7. Commission shows steel over precious metals law | September 25, 2003 |
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ENTERPRISE Commissioner Erkki Liikanen has rejected claims that a planned directive governing the sale of precious metals could kill-off the centuries-old tradition of... | |
| 8. UK's ‘not yet' to the euro draws heat | June 12, 2003 |
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THE chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee says it is “unimaginable” that the UK will remain outside the single currency. German... | |
| 9. ‘Fatal' to delay euro vote, top German warns Blair | May 22, 2003 |
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THE German chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee has intervened in the debate over whether Britain should join the euro, urging UK... | |
| 10. Blair strategy on Europe sunk by deception, dishonesty and denial | May 22, 2003 |
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THE difference between lying and being economical with the truth is a very slender one that is ruthlessly exploited by some politicians. The British politician is a master of... | |
| 11. Britain and the euro: Blair should be bold | May 15, 2003 |
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If the British premier and his ministers were more frank, they would admit the tests for euro entry had been met and push to rejoin the exchange rate mechanism, writes Dick... | |
| 12. Lloyd's anguish | May 1, 2003 |
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I write in response to the representations made by MEPs Lord Stockton and Michael Cashman at an open meeting arranged by Roy Perry MEP, rapporteur of the petitions committee,... | |
| 13. Defiant Andreasen brands Kinnock 'accuser and judge' | September 5, 2002 |
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WHISTLEBLOWER Marta Andreasen has vowed not to cooperate with disciplinary proceedings against her by the European Commission unless they take place in public. Andreasen... | |
| 14. Move to put cartel kingpins in prison could punish EU plans, critics claim | April 4, 2002 |
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UK GOVERNMENT plans to put cartel ringleaders in jail could damage EU moves to boost cooperation on competition cases, business leaders are warning. The Confederation of... | |
| 15. Baroness Fearless | November 22, 2001 |
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HER eyes narrow and she fixes you with an intense glare as she whispers: "I never show fear." Emma Nicholson is describing the moment when, during her recent trip to a... | |
| 16. Tories' external relation | November 18, 1999 |
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AT 55, Chris Patten has joined the ronin. Like the wandering bands of leaderless ex-samurai, Patten, his predecessor at the European Commission Sir Leon Brittan and former... | |
| 17. Player of the long game | October 21, 1999 |
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THE vast majority of MEPs fall into one of two categories: national political stars who burst onto the European stage in a flash of bright lights before fading into... | |
| 18. Tax collector | July 22, 1999 |
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TWO months ago, a London newspaper 'exclusively' revealed that a secret committee had been set up to end the Channel Islands' status as a tax haven and that it was chaired *... | |
| 19. 'Europe of the regions' moves a step closer | May 6, 1999 |
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As voters in Scotland and Wales go to the polls to elect their own assemblies for the first time in centuries, Gareth Harding assesses the impact of devolution in the UK on... | |
| 20. Spring-cleaning time in the EU institutions | March 25, 1999 |
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As the dust settles after last week's upheavals in the Commission, Gareth Harding assesses the growing pressure for sweeping change in all three of the Union's main bodies | |
