The chart below is a powerful rebuttal of the so-called blessings of being part of the EU – and the single currency in particular. Germany is doing very nicely from the €uro, but the human cost of the single currency […]
Emmanuel Macron campaigned for – and indeed, won – the French Presidential election on an unashamedly pro-EU platform. His victory was greeted with huge sighs of relief across the Continent. Rather ironically, however, his enthusiasm for the Single Currency and […]
A study by the European Central Bank has suggested that the real level of unemployment in the European Union may be higher than the official figures. If the numbers of underemployed and unemployed people in the Eurozone are added together, […]
Ireland joined the EU, along with the UK and Denmark, in 1973. With its important agricultural sector very dependent on exporting to the UK, the Irish really had very little choice. Many Irish men and women developed an enthusiasm for […]
By Patrick O’Flynn MEP A TV advert came out last year starring James Corden as a motorist driving through central London and finding that every single set of traffic lights miraculously favours him. After cruising through about four sets in […]
Boris Johnson certainly has a way with words. He chose to absent himself from an emergency dinner for EU foreign ministers convened yesterday (Sunday 13th) to discuss the consequences of Donald Trump’s election victory, saying that they should snap out […]
