Monday
- EU asks Spain to explain rubber bullets shooting of immigrants
- Leading Ukrainian opposition members will ask Europe for financial help at a meeting in Germany
- EU Commissioner Fuhle to visit Bosnia (EU candidate country) over its worst anti Govt riots since the civil war
- Switzerland refuses to sign a reciprocal workers rights deal with Croatia & the EU halts talks on research as sanction
- Merkel vetoes any new aid to Greece before the May election to make sure that they vote the right way
- EU signs over €12 million to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to pay for the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons
- Spain’s public debt is the highest for over 100 years
- Spanish police estimate 30,000 illegal immigrants are camped in Morocco waiting for a chance to cross. This will not end well
- Merkel and Hollande push forward with Euro-internet
- Boris Johnson’s Greater London Authority recruits for a Euro non-job
- European Commission vice-president Reding told Cambridge University students Monday “the eurozone should become the United States of Europe.” She added: “I believe that the UK will not be part of this,” but said it “should … share a common market, a common trade policy, and hopefully a common security agenda”
Tuesday
- Greece’s small steel industry finally gives up the ghost and shuts
- French TV seeks protectionist measures against Netflix
- Romania gets €11.8 million from the EU to improves its sewage system
- Germany and its industrial interests clash with the EU and its green agenda
- Merkel & Hollande meet this week to discuss the establishment of “a Franco-German partnership for European defence.”
- Greek diplomats investigated over mines charity €9 million fraud
- EU more than triples budget to promote “Grown in Europe” labeling for food to €200 million
- Loan default rate rose again in Spain in 2013 to yet another record high. What recovery?
- More Italian politicians arrested on charges of corruption
- European new car sales in January are the lowest since 2003. What recovery?
- France push for FTT agreement before May. It is a mad tax that will drive business to HK and Switzerland and hurt pensions
- The former head of Italy’s Senate Agriculture Committee is arrested for corruption
- State Aid to banks in the EU 2008-2012 amounted to more than €473 billion.
Wednesday
- Dutch tourism sector joins in the protests against offshore windfarms
- Mrs Merkel’s coalition in danger after one resignation, and allegations of child pornography involving an SPD MP
- Greenpeace try and disrupt French German summit in Paris by dumping coal at the palace
- Romania moves to HALVE some public sector salaries over widespread concern that some civil servants are paid too much
- Czech Republic set to hand over its budgetary powers to the EU and join the Euro
- France’s fourth richest man Senator and arms manufacturer, Serge Dassault, arrested over vote-buying
Thursday
- Spanish power co Iberdrola (owns Scot Power) cuts investmnt in Spain to concentrate on lucrative UK renewables market
- Romanian construction levels slump 3.1% year on year in December. What recovery?
- Kosovo confirms its intention to join the EU
- Dutch unemployment rises 0.1%. What recovery?
- The Spanish parliament has voted overwhelmingly to deny Catalonia its independence referendum.
- Italy to complain to the Commission that the UK’s ‘traffic-light’ system warning on fatty foods will damage its cheese and sausage exports
- The UK pays Greece £2 million to help deal with their illegal immigrants.
- Think tank Bruegel estimates that Greece requires another bailout worth $55 billion.
- Macedonian officials forced to deny allegations that a mass poisoning attempt was made on ethnic Albanians
- Bulgaria writes to the EU asking for more aid
- Denmark, the country with the most wind turbines in Europe, concludes that EU renewable targets are too expensive
- Georgian troops will join the EU military mission to Central Africa Republic
- Germany’s wages fell behind prices last year
- EU’s new telescope to cost €1 billion.
- ECB takes €437 million profit from Greek bonds
- Conservative MEPs will not put forward a candidate for the next European Commission President
Friday
- IMF tells Spanish banks to capitalize on QE false rally in markets to raise money & lend more despite loan defaults at highest levels ever
- More than 850,000 Romanians are bankrupt
- The European Commission gave €200 million to 90 migration-related projects to “all regions of the developing world.”
- Former Mayor of Rome arrested for fraud
- Greece’s 4 biggest banks fail stress test and need another €5 billion in capital
- Consumer confidence in the EU dropped last month. What recovery?
- Building permits in the Netherlands hit a 60 year low. What recovery?
Tom, on Tuesday the EP voted through a provision that allows for proceeds of crime to be confiscated by the State without the need for a conviction. http://euobserver.com/justice/123264
Have any of you seen this.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201402/20140206ATT78964/20140206ATT78964EN.pdf
Paragraph 44 reads“[The European Parliament] Recalls its view that the fiscal situation of Member States can be eased through a new system of own resources to finance the Union budget that will reduce gross national income contributions, thus enabling Member States to meet their consolidation efforts without jeopardising EU funding to support investment in economic recovery and reform measures; underlines, therefore, the importance it attaches to the new high-level group on own resources, which should lead to a true reform of EU financing;”
This all sounds very sinister to me and appears as though it would give them the power to dip into our savings whenever they feel like it.
If this is passed we need to ram this information down peoples throats.
Iceland dropped EU membership bid formally yesterday