1. EU civil servants threaten to disturb ministerial meetings to get pay increase
(Articles/World)

El Mundo reports that around 2,500 EU civil servants went on strike yesterday, protesting at a proposed cut to their annual pay rise, from which 50,000 staff are set to benefit. The BBC reports that ...

2. EU bureaucrats to receive 'recession proof' pay rise
(Articles/World)

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump. Baroness Ashton, the newly ...

3. Europe chooses nobodies
(Articles/Opinion)

... a stop to the never-ending transfer of power from their national governments to unelected federal bureaucrats. The EU only marginally takes popular wishes in its stride. Why else was the Treaty of Lisbon ...

4. The floodgates are opening
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

... ta’ l-Unjoni Ewropea, minn Unjoni ta’ Stati Indipendenti u Sovrani, għal-stat Federali.      Malta ser tkun biss biċċa blata fix-xifer ta’ pajjiż kbir li ser ikun jismu Unjoni Ewropea.  Qabel konna ...

5. Europe's first president to push for 'Euro tax'
(Articles/World)

Herman Van Rompuy, Europe's first president, is to join forces with the European Commission to push for sweeping new tax raising powers for Brussels.   Within days of taking office in January, the ...

6. Rompuy-Stiltskin – the first President of Europe
(Articles/Opinion)

                    Who is he? God knows. But perhaps that’s the point. Just as the Son of God was incarnate as a humble carpenter ...

7. Meet the President of Europe
(Articles/World)

Herman Van Rompuy. Get used to the name. He is the first President of the European Union, which with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by all the 27 EU member states in early November was transformed ...

8. Another battle
(Articles/World)

The BBC and others are reporting on the increasingly fraught negotiations in the EU over the selection of a European Council president. Word was that he was supposed to be chosen over a working dinner ...

9. Favourite to be EU President Backs European National Anthem
(Articles/World)

... was an architect of his party’s federalist manifesto which calls for a massive extension of the presence of the EU in town halls, schools and sporting events. The manifesto says: “Apart from the euro, ...

10. Latvian candidate for EU President says selection process is 'Soviet'
(Articles/World)

Mrs Vike-Freiberga, 71, the former Latvian President and the Baltic state's first post-Communist leader after independence from the Soviet Union, attacked the EU for operating in "darkness and behind ...

11. A Serious flaw
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

This article below is written in reply to a certain Franco Farrugia, who in a letter to the Malta Independent stated that I am ill informed about the nature of the EU and that I am bent on 'misguiding' ...

12. A Change of government
(Articles/Opinion)

When the Nazis marched into Paris in June 1940, the newspapers were not full of explanatory notes, outlining the minutia of the legal changes under the occupation. Quite rightly, they focused on the ...

13. The end of independence
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

On 15 December 2001, The Laeken Declaration said the union needed further reform because "its citizens are calling for a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach". The ...

14. The Revenge of Political Correctness
(Articles/Opinion)

... its image” among Muslims for much of the previous years. The federal government in Canada was considering changes to the Anti-Terrorism Act to make it clear that police and security agents did not engage ...

15. SECRET PLAN FOR EURO INCOME TAX
(Articles/World)

SECRET plans to make European citizens pay taxes direct to the European Union emerged this week. The leaked proposals make it clear that Brussels intends to make use of the 'own resources' clauses in ...

16. Lisbon Treaty will create embryonic EU 'Home Office'
(Articles/World)

Open Europe’s research on the EU’s impact on civil liberties, published yesterday, is reported in the Mail, Telegraph and the Express. EU ministers and the European Commission are currently negotiating ...

17. Signature in the cell
(Articles/Books)

... age. Meyer reveals that, on the contrary, it is precisely our modern scientific age that is in the process of burying materialist theories of life’s development. Second, since a federal judge in Dover, ...

18. Lisbon treaty will not make much difference to the Maltese citizen
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

... from the Maltese  people to individual government Ministers at EU level. LISBON LAYS FOUNDATIONS FOR A FEDERAL EUROPE Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian Prime Minister, was absolutely correct when he said that ...

19. Will democracy triumph in the EU?
(Articles/Opinion)

... both France and the Netherlands rejected their governments’ plans to ratify the EU constitution. The Federalists though, were not to be so easily put off. They rebottled the first Constitution and labelled ...

20. TotalPolitics interviews David Starkey
(Articles/Personaggi - People)

... like that. We probably need a genuinely federal system. I can see lots of reasons why, for historic nations that have come together as Britain did, this would actually be a rather good way of managing ...