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Blair attack on 'out-of-date' Chirac The lion roars again By Toby Helm and David Rennie (Filed: 25/03/2005) The Telegraph London Tony Blair launched a fierce counter-attack against Jacques Chirac yesterday, accusing him of running an out-of-date economy that delivers low growth and high...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

Swastikas daubed on French mosque and schools STRASBOURG, France, March 18 (AFP) - Vandals scrawled dozens of swastikas and racial slurs on the walls of a mosque and two schools in eastern France, police said Friday. Early Friday, police in the town of Soultz, located south of Strasbourg...

10 questions that will make the French squirm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Why do we find the bloodiest and most corrupted regimes in the former French colonies? (Cambodia, French Indo-China, Central African Republic, Niger, Togo, Haiti...

POLL INDICATES FRENCH MAY VOTE NO TO EU CONSTITUTION Received Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:59:00 GMT www.ttc.org . . . PARIS, March 17 (AFP) - For the first time a majority of French say they plan to vote 'no' in the national referendum on the European constitution to be held in May, according to...

French Public Debt to Rise to Record 66.1% of GDP This Year March 17 (Bloomberg) -- France's public debt will rise to a record 66.1 percent of gross domestic product in 2005, more than forecast, as rising unemployment erodes government finances, according to an aide to Finance Minister Thierry...

Stagnant, decaying Continental Europe strikes again. The London Eye, the world's tallest ferris wheel, overtakes the Eiffel Tower to become the world's biggest tourist attraction - London Eye on top of the world as it becomes best tourist attraction By Arifa Akbar 17 March 2005 For a...