Merkel’s and Macron’s undermining of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine may derive from their instinctive reactions to any hint that Britain’s future after Brexit might be fruitful, but they are reckless and are damaging enthusiasm for the EU. Whilst infections, hospitalisations and deaths in the UK are plunging, in Germany the vast majority of the Oxford-AstraZeneca … More Sputnik launched in the EU

There is little to doubt that European unity was inspired by the desire for peace after two devastating world wars. With the founding of the European Union this great and noble cause has been obscured and diverted down a different path. In 1949, the Council of Europe (CoE) was formed to create conditions for peaceful … More Paved With Good Intentions

The EU is not what it would seem to be. The Lisbon Treaty The Lisbon Treaty, which came into force on 1st December 2009, declares that the European Union is based on common principles of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. To ensure all this … More Fantasy Land

Von de Leyen is a terrorist. She may not plant bombs but she primes the fuses. There are two sides to the conflict in Ireland, the EU has ‘weaponised’ it for its own advantages, disregarding the risk to lives. The (hastily withdrawn) intention to create a hard border between north and south by invoking Article … More EU Priming Terror

“Our friends in Europe”, as the Prime Minister graciously calls them (and by which he means in the EU) are hostiles, not friends. This has been clear to most of us for some years but became transparently so during the vaccine fiasco. The EU’s spite is potentially murderous; not only did its Commission threaten a … More Our Friends in Europe

The EU wishes to punish the UK for showing why a majority of British voters preferred to believe their own government’s claims to efficiency and effectiveness rather than the propaganda put out by the EU A major supplier of Covid-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, has said that the number of doses of its vaccine ordered by the … More A Remain Risk Exposed

This is the third of our commentaries on the Agreement that we plan to post. Title II of Part I focuses on services, which are more significant in the UK economy, and – so the commentaries tell us – are less thoroughly treated in the Agreement, as by the EU generally. PART TWO: TRADE, TRANSPORT, … More EU-UK Draft Agreement-3

This is the second of the series of commentaries on the Agreement that we plan to post. We do not intend to read or analyse the whole document thoroughly (1,246 pages) but we will focus on the parts that we believe may be most significant for the future of the UK. The EU-UK Trade and … More EU-UK Draft Agreement-2

Brexit is done but world peace was the inspiration for the European Union, do Britons no longer share that dream? Or do the majority feel it was the wrong plan with too many faults and unlikely benefits? Imagine a similar plan in another continent, would it hold together? John Lennon’s song Imagine has many fine … More “Imagine there’s no countries”

It will take several posts, of which this is the first, to go through this Agreement, even superficially. It is officially a draft, presumably because it still has to be approved by the EU Parliament (the House of Commons has approved). The general view, as we write, is that the Agreement is satisfactory. We will … More EU-UK Draft Agreement-1