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From The News of the World - Obedient Britain has imposed 11,500 new laws ordered by Europe - while France and Germany carry on flouting the rules. Since 1997, one in ten new pieces of legislation laid down by our government came from Brussels. Their controls range from orders on the shape...

From The Sun - ELECTION 2005 Euro out for five years By TREVOR KAVANAGH Political Editor TONY Blair last night threw in the towel on the euro as he ruled out ditching the Pound in the next five years. He admitted a UK referendum on joining the single currency is “unlikely” in the next...

We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story. By Bruce Bawer Published: April 17, 2005 The New York Times OSLO — THE received wisdom about economic life in the Nordic countries is easily summed up: people here are incomparably affluent, with all their needs met by an efficient welfare state. They...

Pope Bendict XVI From AOL News - Bells Ring in Rome as Pope Elected German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the 265th Pope German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the 265th Pope. He has taken the name Pope Benedict. Bells chimed at St Peter's Basilica and...

With a General Election in Britain on May 5th, Blair is still the favourite to win - Polls promising for Britain's Blair John Daniszewski, Los Angeles Times April 17, 2005 BLAIR0417 LONDON -- He led his country into a highly unpopular war, many voters say he's untrustworthy and some deride...

Britain has the most representatives in the shortlist of the world's best restaurants - beating France and the United States - British Restaurants to Compete for 'World's Best' Title By Alison Purdy, PA Fourteen of the UK’s top eateries will today compete with rivals from around the world to...

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The British pound gained for the fourth week in five versus the euro as investors judged the U.K. economy will maintain a pace of expansion that's faster than that of the dozen nations sharing the euro. British Pound Advances in Week Versus Euro on Growth Outlook April...

15 April 2005 LUXEMBOURG - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer admits that finding an EU consensus on lifting an embargo on arms sales to China is difficult, as European Union governments on Friday put the brakes on plans to lift the ban. "Things will take their time," Fischer told...

The Stadium of Light, home of the English soccer team, Sunderland, is reputed to be haunted, after staff and some players claim they have ghost - From The Mirror - STADIUM OF FRIGHT Apr 16 2005 Soccer stars see ghost in ground By Jeremy Armstrong PROMOTION-chasing Sunderland stars...

France and Germany are probably economically worse now that Britain was in the 1970's - From The Times - Why I say oui to a French no Anatole Kaletsky Rejection of the EU constitution would also be a rejection of the clapped-out ideas of Europe's elites EVEN IN THE run-up to a tight...

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...