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The French are becoming increasingly disenchanted with Europe and are ready to turn their backs on the EU, according to the latest opinion polls in the French newspapers Le Figaro and Le Parisien. Their polls, published yesterday and last Thursday respectively, show that more than half of French...

The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It? By ELAINE SCIOLINO Published: April 13, 2005 PARIS, April 12 - Historically, the French have liked the idea of a united Europe as long as they could run it. France, after all, was a founding member of the six-country European Coal and Steel...

Charlemagne Europe's battling twosome Mar 31st 2005 From The Economist print edition The usual Jacques 'n' Tony punch-up in Brussels IT HAS become a familiar routine. There is a European Union summit; a row breaks out between Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair; a little later, the two men...

Financial Times Amsterdam : The Dutch will reject the European Union constitutional treaty in a national referendum on June 1 unless government and business can mobilise support rapidly, Dutch politicians are warning. The outcome could prove academic if opinion polls prove accurate and the...

From German newspaper Der Spiegel - Trans-Atlantic Conspiracy Theory Du Jour Spiegel online April 11, 2005 Germany's highest ranking female member of parliament [and Vice-President of the Bundestag-the German Parliament] has a new theory: The US government set the Catholic pedophilia scandal...

BERLIN - The German government on Friday struggled to contain fallout after a damaging admission by the Federal Labour Office chief that the country's real jobless rate is far higher than official figures show. "I didn't have the courage to change the well-rehearsed ritual and name the 6.5...

"We have finally obtained this 'Europe à la française' that we have awaited for so long. This constitutional treaty is an enlarged France. It is a Europe written in French." - Justice Minister Dominique Perben (Times and AFP, 4 April) "The European Constitution consecrates the French vision of...

From The Telegraph - Labour says UK is driving growth By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 01/04/2005) British companies are creating wealth at three times the rate of their European counterparts, the Government will claim today. The Department for Trade and Industry has...

Blair attack on 'out-of-date' Chirac The lion roars again By Toby Helm and David Rennie (Filed: 25/03/2005) The Telegraph London Tony Blair launched a fierce counter-attack against Jacques Chirac yesterday, accusing him of running an out-of-date economy that delivers low growth and high...

Anyone Fooled? Eurosoc Blog www.eursoc.com . . . Jacques Chirac left yesterday's meeting of heads of government in Brussels yesterday claiming to have slain the dragon of Anglo-Saxon ultra-liberalism by knocking back Europe's services directive. Tony Blair slipped out the back door, without...

CHIRAC SAVAGED BY BRITISH PRESS OVER EU REBATE Received Thursday, 24 March 2005 13:16:00 GMT LONDON, March 24 (AFP) The British tabloid press on Thursday savaged French President Jacques Chirac, accusing him of breaking commitments to liberalize the European Union and of betraying Britain over...

We won't give up EU budget rebate, Straw tells Chirac From Anthony Browne and Rory Watson in Brussels From The Times - (Why does France, despite having only a slightly smaller population and economy than Britain, contribute so LITTLE to the EU budget, whereas the other two large...

The new infantilism: Chirac, European economic reform and the ‘new communism’ The Times London -Leading articles- EU summit meetings are rarely exciting affairs but can occasionally be enlightening, if depressing. The gathering that ended in Brussels yesterday falls squarely into that...

From The Sun - From NIC CECIL, Political Correspondent in BRUSSELS BACK-STABBING Jacques Chirac last night repaid Tony Blair for helping him by trying to sabotage Britain’s £3billion EU rebate. The double betrayal came only hours after Mr Blair rescued the French President from angry French...

Britain way ahead of Europe on employment Department for Work And Pensions , 23 February 2005 Britain would have four million fewer people in work if it had the same average employment rate as the European Union, UK Minister for Work Jane Kennedy said. Ms Kennedy also said two million less...

Britain, Ireland and most of the new EU member states that joined in 2004 (the liberal economies - New Europe) continue to outperform the social model economies of decrepit Old Europe -

TCS EU Summit Coverage: The Paris Agenda By Sylvain Charat Published 03/22/2005 "Economic liberalism would be as disastrous as communism," stated French President Jacques Chirac in lashing out against the EU's so-called Bolkestein directive (named for Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch...

French President Jacques Chirac condemned Britain's jealously-held EU budget rebate on Wednesday as "no longer justified," setting the stage for a new row within the European Union. "We cannot have a genuinely proper balance unless we put into question the British rebate, which is no longer...

From The Salt Lake Tribune - Fighting back: In London, 35 Greenpeace protesters rushed onto the floor of the International Petroleum Exchange in February, intending to paralyze oil trading on the day the Kyoto environmental initiative took effect, but, unexpectedly, the traders turned on them...

Irish terror groups 'to hit London' · Police and MI5 issue warning to British businesses · 'Substantial threat' from dissident republican groups Martin Bright and Henry McDonald Sunday March 20, 2005 The Observer Police have issued a stark warning that mainland Britain faces a...