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Blair Seizes on EU Deadlock to Promote U.K.'s Pro-Growth Agenda June 16 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is seizing on the European Union deadlock over the constitution and budget as a chance to push British pro-business and Free-Market policies on the slower growing continental...

Frm The Sun - French milk EU for too long ... WITH masterly understatement, Tony Blair says there is “sharp disagreement” between him and Jacques Chirac. What he means is that the grasping French President is hanging on to his country’s EU handouts like a miser on a flagday. And he wants...

Paris and London are battling it out to host the 2012 Olympics in what is now a two-horse race. On Monday, London stunned Paris by unveiling a new Olympics Park, the largest new park in Europe for 150 years. The decision on which city will host the 2012 will be made in just 22 days' time...

France Widens Search for Ecomonic Answers By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press Writer June 13, 2005, 1:53 AM EDT PARIS -- Generations of French children have grown up on the "Asterix" comic books and the myth of the leisurely British who were conquered by Rome because among their shortcomings...

Strike One: Net contribution to the EU budget per capita 2003 France £19 UK £42 Strike Two: Common Agricultural Policy receipts per capita 2003 France £117 UK £45 Strike Three: Prime Minister Blair raised eyebrows on arriving in Berlin last night by going straight into lengthy talks with...

From The Times - Numbers count Why Britain must make a powerful case for economic reform in Europe There is something almost too prosaic about statistics. Great debates will be held in Europe this week over subjects as immediate and profound as opportunity, poverty, and welfare, and...

Britain tops EU league for super-growth companies 1) United States 2) Hong Kong 3) Australia 4) Britain BRITAIN has the highest proportion of "super-growth" medium-sized companies in Europe and is ranked fourth in the world, according to research published today. Accountancy firm Grant...

France warms to joys of Blairisme Matthew Campbell , Paris A NEW trend is emerging among France’s chattering classes. Tired of criticising les rosbifs as backward and bellicose, they are marvelling at Britain’s economic robustness. Le Blairisme, once a dirty word for French leftists, is...

Blair squares up for a fight with old Europe 'weaklings' June 11, 2005 By Anthony Browne and Rory Watson The Times London GERHARD SCHRÖDER, the German Chancellor, calls it national selfishness. President Chirac of France demands that Britain give it up as an act of European solidarity...

International Focus - 6/9/05 Requesting a French plumber to turn up on time is like asking an Italian to eat spaghetti with chopsticks – you’ll get the same look of bewildered confusion. Never mind the ever-flushing toilet or the leaking pipes, you will have to wait at home for days until the...

This is how much the G8 nations currently spend on defence per year. 1. United States - $455.3bn 2. Britain - $47.4bn 3. France - $46.2bn 4. Japan - $42.4bn 5. Germany - $33.9bn 6. Italy - $27.8bn 7. Russia - $19.4bn 8. Canada - $10.6bn

Britannia standing on top of a dying France. The triumph of perfidious Albion Britain has always fought against a dominant power forming on the Continent, and has always won. It has now won the war against the latest incarnation of a dominant power on the Continent - the EU. Jun 2nd 2005...

Britannia standing on top of a dying France. The triumph of perfidious Albion For centuries, Britain has fought against a dominant power forming on the Continent - and always won. It has now beaten the latest incarnation - the EU. Jun 2nd 2005 From The Economist print edition How Britain...

From The Telegraph - Britain is outperforming the Continental countries. Schröder and Chirac ponder years of decline It is one of the grandest traditions of the European project: on the eve of any EU summit, the leaders of France and Germany meet to thrash out a joint approach, before...

..gentle French readers, if you find yourself jibing at the irritation of your fellow Europeans over the next week or two, keep in mind that these are the angry little thoughts zinging around in our heads. They will pass. And no one will be pouring French wine into the gutters. But you should...

So Much for Reform in Western Europe By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, June 1, 2005; Page D01 www.washingtonpost.com . . . Put aside any lingering hope that Western Europe might finally be ready to abandon the socialist economic model and embrace an enlightened form of global capitalism. Over...

Holland - "Britain was right all along about the euro currency." The euro is killing our economy, say Dutch By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Filed: 01/06/2005) The "boom-bust" effects of the single currency have driven the Netherlands into a severe economic downturn over the past four years...

From The Telegraph - Europe is an indulgence we can't afford By Mark Steyn The Eurofetishists can't seem to agree their line on this referendum business. On the one hand, the Guardian's headline writer was packing up and heading for the hills - "Europe is plunged into crisis" - and EU...

The Death of the Federalist Project? By Anatole Kaletsky Thursday, May 26th 2005 Why are the people of Europe so angry? The standard answer, as the Germans, French and Dutch all turn against their governments, is that the European project has gone too far and that political elites have...

Alien nation Half the French population is living on another planet in its resistance to the EU constitution, writes Jon Henley Wednesday France may be correct to say "NON" to EU Constitution - but it shouldn't reject it because it is "Anglo-Saxon." As Britain has proved, the Anglo-Saxon...