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    EU is lagging behind the US

    Why Europe lags behind By Bruce Bartlett Europeans are frustrated. They have been behind the United States economically for years and thought this was due to lack of economic integration. So they created the European Union, with a common currency and virtually free mobility of goods, capital...
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    A Scathing Indictment of "Old Europe"

    A Scathing Indictment of Old Europe" by Parker Ames Friday, June 27, 2003 www.chronwatch.com . . . Ralph Peters, writing for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, bids adieu to America’s former allies France and Germany, in a scathing indictment of ''Old Europe.'' The article...
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    Conservative Vision for U.S. Policy Toward Europe

    Conservative Vision for U.S. Policy Toward Europe by John C. Hulsman, Ph.D., and Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. Backgrounder #1803 October 4, 2004 | Executive Summary | | For the better part of the past 50 years, each suc*cessive U.S. Administration has eventually come to the same conclusion about...
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    Strange rumblings on the European continent

    More specifically, does the Ents analogy work for present-day Europe? Before you laugh at the silly comparison, remember that the Western military tradition is European. Today the continent is unarmed and weak, but deep within its collective mind and spirit still reside the ability to field...
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    Going, going... Jaques Chirac, the old man of Europe

    « Going, going... the old man of Europe (Chirac) the great survivor is on his way out, leaving France in a state of decline » What do you call a great survivor at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. I know, you're not in for easy jokes but I just couldn't help it. And because I'm the one...
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    UK ON TRACK FOR ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP OF EUROPE

    RE: how long will the EU stay in E? By 2030, the EU will have 30 members states, more than it has now. But it's share of the world economy would have shrunk. Analysis: French study says Europe fading By Martin Walker UPI Chief International Correspondent Published 5/14/2003 1:40 PM...
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    Privatising defence - Britain leads the way

    by Wess Mitchell The military campaign in Afghanistan demonstrated that, among NATO countries, only Great Britain - with its small but professional military - has the capability to deploy advanced military assets to far-flung theaters of operation in support of U.S. forces. However...
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    50 questions for Europhiles

    50 questions for Europhiles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions for Europhiles The following are a set of questions kindly supplied by Mr D'Oliveira which may prove useful if questioning Europhiles at public meetings, or writing...
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    Why does the EU want the UK? Because off all its fish!

    The EU only wants Britain as a member because of its huge fish stocks. Berfore it joined the EU, 80% of Europe's fish were in British waters. Now that it has persuaded Britain to be a member, the EU destroys the British fishing industry, and allows heavily-funded Spanish and French fishermen...
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    The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is a disgrace

    The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is a disgrace -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has damaged Britain and the Third World QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY Why did the Common Agricultural Policy ever get set up in the...
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    Old Europe VS New Europe

    "Europe," proclaimed de Gaulle, "is France and Germany: the rest are just trimmings." The celebrated Letter of the Eight expressing support for the U.S. stance on Iraq has been seen as giving substance to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's evocation of "New Europe" as a counterweight...
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    British GDP about to reach 2 trillion

    1975 Billion Dollars (exchange rate of 1.795) at the present moment. Europe's fastest-growing economy, and the world's 4th largest, about to become only the 4th country in the world to reach 2 trillion and should soon overtake Germany to become Europe's largest economy for the first time since...
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    UK vs. EU Article Ramblings

    Re: how long will the EU stay in E? On 1st January 1973, Conservative British Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the European Common Market. Heath reassured Parliament and the British people at the time that British sovereignty would not be affected and that we were just joining a...