Europe

BBC: The UK and Europe

Britain joins the EEC - 01/01/1973
Labour votes to leave the EEC - 26/04/1975
UK embraces Europe in referendum - 06/06/1975
Wires crossed over inventions - 28/05/96
Santer swaps argument for insult in effort to batter Britain into line - 02/12/96
Fishing row mars Blair 'triumph' at Amsterdam - 19/06/97
Fishermen urged to help fund fleet cuts - 16/07/97
The Union's policies - Fisheries
For a Global Britain - speech by the Rt. Hon. Michael Portillo - 10/04/99
Rescue talk helps euro - 31/05/99
Why a weak euro matters - 03/06/99
Blair 'ashamed of euro policy' - 04/06/99
EU leaders add to euro confusion - 04/06/99
The Economy: Business says 'yes' to euro 20/07/99
UK poll bashes euro - 31/03/99
Spanish win legal fish fight - 08/04/99
Tories accuse government of euro plot - 08/05/99
Pro-euro group wins Blair's backing - 28/06/99
Mandelson steps onto Euro stage - 29/06/99
'Folly' to scrap pound - 22/09/99
Tories criticise Labour euro 'obsession' - 25/09/99 The government has been criticised for being "obsessed" with scrapping the pound
Euro warning on e-commerce - 07/10/99
Germany stalls over British beef - 08/10/99
French 'misguided' on British beef - 13/10/99
Head to head: The euro - 14/10/99
Europe stalls over beef ban decision - 14/10/99
Europe Campaign Splits Papers - 15/10/99
Hague Begins 'Battle for Britain' - 15/10/99
Euro-launch sparks 'charade' jibe - 19/10/99
Leaders clash on Europe - 19/10/99
Leaders mark their Euro ground - 19/10/99
Nick Brown faces crisis over French meat - 25/10/99
Spanish fishermen net £100m compensation - 28/10/99
Labour 'caved in' on beef - 02/11/99
I did not give in - Nick Brown - 03/11/99
UK and France - the official story - 03/11/99
Farmers give up on 'nice Mr (Nick) Brown' - 04/11/99
Deadlock on EU withholding tax - 07/11/99
Embrace change, Blair tells socialists - 08/11/99
Blair and Schröder plan Third Way - 08/11/99
EU creating new Iron Curtain - Tories - 09/11/99
Britain a 'pushover' - Hague 11/11/99
UK farmers angry and dismayed - 11/11/99
Europe moves against French beef ban - 11/11/99
No beef relief for Blair - 12/11/99
Beef legal battle looms - 15/11/99
EU fraud: a billion dollar bill - 19/11/99
MEPs' interests go online - 25/11/99
Summit backs Euro force - 25/11/99
Q&A: The EU savings tax row - 30/11/99
Germany denies blaming UK for weak euro - 30/11/99
Euro on brink of dollar parity - 02/12/99
Euro on the brink after falling below the Dollar - 03/12/99
Agency ducks beef ruling - 06/12/99
French beef ban decision imminent - 07/12/99
Turkey set to join EU - 10/12/99
Blair prepared for EU isolation - 10/12/99
Rows overshadow EU summit - 10/12/99
Hague attacks 'empty-handed' Blair - 13/12/99
Labour MEP leader quits - 15/12/99
Fish deal was 'best possible' - 17/12/99
Fishermen's fury at quota cuts - 17/12/99
Churchill 'wanted to abandon de Gaulle' - 05/01/00
Dewhirst sacks 1,000 to leave UK - 13/01/00
BMW raises spectre of Rover closure - 13/01/00
Mannesmann fights back - 14/01/00
Byers in Euro warning - 27/01/00
Euro plumbs new lows - 27/01/00
Euro continues to drop - 28/01/00
Hague demands flexible EU - 28/01/00
UK given euro warning - 30/01/00
UK given euro warning - 30/01/00
CBI halts euro campaign - 31/01/00
Cook downplays euro setbacks - 31/01/00
Blair under new euro pressure - 31/01/00
UK Government's Euro Website
Austrians face EU action - 31/01/00
Morgan's promise over EU funds - 13/02/00
Joining euro 'will cost £36bn' - 17/02/00
Hague puts anti-euro campaign online - 18/02/00
Keep The Pound (.org.uk)
3m jobs 'dependent on EU' - 21/02/00
Brown's euro timetable - 22/02/00
Hague: Blair would rig euro poll - 22/02/00
UK destiny in Europe - Blair - 23/02/00
Thatcher's Bruges speech - 23/02/00
Euro plunges to record low (93 cents) - 28/02/00
EU cautious over Haider resignation - 29/02/00
Brussels adopts sweeping reforms - 01/03/00
Food firms attack new EU layer of red tape - 06/03/00
Blair: Europe must unite over drugs - 09/03/00
Greece asks to join the euro - 09/03/00
Sweden steps closer to euro - 11/03/00
IMF says euro a risk for UK - 11/03/00
75% of British voters say euro is a failure - 13/03/00
Brussels spurns Austria's plea for end to diplomatic sanctions - 14/03/00
Brussels gives hedges the chop - 15/03/00
Sweet victory for UK chocolate - 15/03/00
Germany lifts UK beef ban - 17/03/00
Withholding tax: Rift with Europe widens after move on international bonds - 23/03/00
Snapshot of strained relations - 23/03/00 euro
Europe's jobless millions - 23/03/00
Euro leaders bid for e-commerce boom - 23/03/00
Conrad Black sues envoy over 'bias' claim - 24/03/00
I was wrong to attack Telegraph, says envoy - 24/03/00
Ministers use 3 jets to fly to EU summit (headline changed to Blair's spokesman attacks BBC) - 23/03/00 from two Jags to three jets
EU embraces internet age - 24/03/00
Warning on Euro rights 'panic' - 30/03/00
Growing business divide over euro - 30/03/00
British businesses and the euro - 31/03/00
No deal in China talks with EU - 31/03/00
Austria finds a friend - 31/03/00
Blair adviser warns against adopting the euro - 02/04/00
Brussels officials face new charges of fraud and cronyism - 02/04/00
Kohl's party branded the xenophobic 'Haiders of the Rhine' - 03/04/00
Prodi calls crisis talks on EC 'plot' to oust him - 06/04/00
Council of Europe moves to exclude Russia - 07/04/00
Euro-MPs threaten to block EU budget over corruption - 07/04/00
EU chiefs in salary scandal - 09/04/00
Ousted EU chiefs must reveal salaries - 09/04/00
George 'glad Britain stayed out of euro' - 12/04/00
New voice for English regions - 12/04/00
English is language of today, Germans admit - 13/04/00
'Extend free trade to US' - 17/04/00
Churchill was right about the British-American pact - 17/04/00
Free trade a 'real chance' for Britain - 18/04/00
Fledgling European army faces Kosovo challenge - 19/04/00
Call for merged 'euro embassies' - 19/04/00
EU Gibraltar deal sidesteps Spain's sovereignty claim - 20/04/00
Germans and French look to full union in 10 years - 20/04/00
English ignorance slays St George's celebration - 22/04/00
How 'this blessed plot' was left off the EU map - 22/04/00
Drugs trade 'rampant in borderless EU states' - 22/04/00
German advisers losing faith in the euro - 25/04/00
Euro takes a hammering (92.73 cents) - 26/04/00
Another day, another European flight towards dollar - 26/04/00
'Sparkling' euro will recover, says Schröder - 27/04/00
Reforms key to strong growth - 27/04/00
EU tax treaty is threat to Britain, says Redwood - 27/04/00
Europe raises rates (but Euro falls to 91.80 cents) - 27/04/00
Europe and the euro - 27/04/00
Rate rise fails to bolster euro (90.60 cents) - 27/04/00
Audit says no end to EU waste - 28/04/00
Euro hits new low [90.8 US cents] as bank chief faces investigation - 29/04/00
'Joining euro has robbed us of our pride' - 29/04/00
Inquiry into bank chief increases euro strain - 30/04/00
Europe for the weekend as pound hits a new high - 01/05/00
Call for crisis summit over slump in euro - 01/05/00
EU argues as 'Russia ruins fish stocks' - 02/05/00
Euro under more pressure [90.75 US cents] as US banks desert it - 02/05/00
Mega market merger 'agreed' - 02/05/00
Livingstone fails to halt euro fall - 03/05/00
Central bank boss named in French cash scandal - 03/05/00
Major firms forced to ditch pound - 03/05/00
Stock Exchange sell-out echoes Heath's EEC capitulation - 03/05/00
Leading exchanges merge - 03/05/00
Euro slumps below 90 cents [89.04 cents] - 03/05/00
Euro falls below 90 cents [89.18 cents] as crisis deepens - 04/05/00
City seething over euro plan - 04/05/00
The unanswered questions [about the Stock Exchange merger] - 04/05/00
Bang, crash, wallop - 04/05/00
City must reject the Exchange's preposterous proposals - 04/05/00
Rumours stop euro plunge [88.7 cents] - 04/05/00
Chirac calls for Europe 'closer to the people' - 05/05/00
Britain still lacks Brussels backstage influence - 05/05/00
Cracks start to appear in London-Frankfurt link - 06/05/00
Austria's government overshadows EU talks - 06/05/00
Revealed: the £13bn cost of euro to British pensions - 07/05/00
How the euro is killing your pension - 07/05/00
Euro watch: Slide looks set to continue
Weak euro dominates talks; EU 'concern' about euro - 08/05/00
Brown urged to invest £20bn windfall in euro - 09/05/00
Blair paymaster proves a critical friend in need - 09/05/00
Fabius calls for 'economic government' to save the euro - 09/05/00
Brown rules out pound 'quick fix' - 09/05/00
Online brokers ring alarm over Frankfurt pact - 09/05/00
Energy minister challenges EU - 09/05/00
Jospin plea for show of unity in eurozone - 10/05/00
Euro rallies on ministers' support - 10/05/00
Frankfurt aims to overtake City - 10/05/00
Monti hints car dealer system may be changed - 12/05/00
Casey grilled over Frankfurt merger - 12/05/00
German call for EU superstate - 13/05/00
Storm over federal Europe call - 13/05/00
Stench blights Blue Grotto tourist trade - 13/05/00
Closer EU ties 'will salvage sinking euro' - 14/05/00
Austrian chancellor blasts 'Franco-German directorate' - 14/05/00
Prodi: For Denmark, Yes Means Yes - 16/05/00
Redwood presses for ballot on EU treaty changes - 16/05/00
Mandelson opens rift over euro - 17/05/00
Patten attacks EU waste in £7bn aid programme - 17/05/00
Cabinet split on euro bursts into the open - 17/05/00 Mandelson and Stephen Byers called for the Government to adopt a more "positive" stance
Why do we get so excited about exchange rates, when they matter less and less? - 18/05/00 'No one says "Let's not have Jennifer Aniston because we have to pay her in dollars"'
Carstairs killers invoke EC rights - 18/05/00
EU 'crooks' charter' hampering Scottish police - 19/05/00
Firms forced to prove they are not racist - 19/05/00 !!!!!!! burden of proof shifted to the accused !!!!!!!
Britain 'will veto race directive' - 20/05/00
Now Germans doubt exchange deal - 20/05/00
Blair: I can persuade the people to scrap pound - 21/05/00
British Army full of convicts, says German defence minister [Rudolf Scharping] - 21/05/00
Portillo salvo for Frankfurt link - 22/05/00
Reject market merger, says Portillo - 22/05/00
Brown let EU decide on any future tax cuts on 28th Feb but kept quiet about it - 23/05/00 !!!!!!!!!!
Euro is vital, says Livingstone - 23/05/00
German unease over London link-up - 23/05/00
Wiseman blames euro for profit slump - 23/05/00
'Illegal bank charges' for euro foreign exchanges - 24/05/00
Euro campaigners pressure Labour - 24/05/00
EC directive puts 'dead' in deadline - 25/05/00
Bundesbank sounds alarm over euro - 25/05/00
No score from Prodi's 'team of champions' - 25/05/00
Britain could quit euro after joining, says Prodi - 26/05/00
We want a referendum - by John Redwood - 26/05/00
A referendum - and renegotiation - by John Redwood - 26/05/00
Anger over German plan to unite Europe - 28/05/00
EU threat to British asylum crackdown - 28/05/00
Cabinet trio confront Brown over Euro - 28/05/00
UK 'years' from joining euro - 29/05/00
Private records opened to EU - 30/05/00
Euro is a work in progress, says Fabius - 30/05/00
Royal Mail condemns EU post plan - 31/05/00
Chirac seeks to speed up EU defence programme - 31/05/00
EU-US trade row deepens - 31/05/00
Britain left out in cold by euro axis - 01/06/00
Europe bill of rights risk to Blair - 01/06/00
The 50 rights that would underpin European life - 01/06/00
Business: Employers fear jobs would be put at risk - 01/06/00
British law: Charter threatens rash of legal challenges - 01/06/00
Blair challenged over EU's new rights charter - 02/06/00
Closer and closer union - 02/06/00
Franco-German alliance delivers new blow to Blair - 03/06/00
EU must embrace Russia, says Clinton - 03/06/00
Sceptics attack 'a blueprint for federalism' - 03/06/00
Summit battle looms on transfer of jurisdiction from British courts - 03/06/00
Federalism finds its time - 03/06/00
Blair to take personal control on euro policy - 04/06/00
Cabinet split on Brown's euro policy - 05/06/00
Euro tax row looms - 05/06/00
Euro-zone tensions rise - 05/06/00
Currency 'club' is a setback for Britain - 06/06/00
How the top politicians rode on the Euro seesaw - 06/06/00
Case against ditching pound is stronger than ever, says report - 06/06/00 Pro-Euro scaremongering at the time of the launch about the dangers of not joining turned out to be wrong
Mixed views of Blair's team of advisers - 06/06/00 Roger Liddle, Mr Blair's adviser on Europe and a close friend of Peter Mandelson, is seen as Downing Street's foremost enthusiast for closer union
Voting for Britain - 06/06/00 Ted Heath's assurances about our national sovereignty have been proved to be unfounded
New Tory intake more sceptical than Hague - 06/06/00
We made errors in report, says BBC - 06/06/00
£15,000 rise for British Euro-MPs - 07/06/00
Brussels to the rescue [of Glennys Kinnock] - 07/06/00
Labour accepts 'unacceptable' EU law on race - 07/06/00
IRA pair win rights ruling over detentions - 07/06/00
EU isolation will harm us, says Major - 07/06/00
Cook tells of pressure for positive decision on euro - 08/06/00
Franco-German alliance renewed - 09/06/00
Patten 'frustrated' by EC job - 09/06/00
Europe set to raise rates - 08/06/00
Get off the fence, prime minister! - 07/06/00
UK close to eurozone - 08/06/00
Patten counts the hours until end of 'boring' European job - 09/06/00
[Patten] Victim of putsch by French - 09/06/00
Hague wants veto on EU - 09/06/00
One woman's fight to end [Austria] her country's isolation - 09/06/00
Pound hits low on EU rate rise - 09/06/00
Britain moving closer to euro - 09/06/00
Blair leads fight to limit charter of social rights - 09/06/00
Blair faces fresh euro pressure - 09/06/00
Byers risks Cabinet split over deadline for euro - 10/06/00
Hague: Britain is anti-euro - 10/06/00
Brown loses key ally [Nick Brown] on euro - 11/06/00 but has gained a new supporter in the form of David Blunkett
It's a short step from WI jam to euro pickle - 11/06/00 cabinet colleagues are now lining up to give Tony Blair the benefit of their views on Europe
Prodi increases euro pressure - 11/06/00
Tories will scrap plans to set up EU army - 12/06/00
Downing St reins in europhile Byers - 12/06/00
Euro 'can hold back economies' - 12/06/00 "E-future Or Euro-past"
Gurus gather as euro debate steps up a gear - 12/06/00
Tories pick Euro-sceptic to fight for Major's seat - 12/06/00
Brown defies Blair camp over the euro - 12/06/00
Brown 'is ducking' the euro - 12/06/00
Euro row widens cabinet split - 12/06/00 [Brown] is said to want Labour to keep quiet about the issue
Labour 'split over honesty on euro' - 13/06/00
City doing well outside euro, says George - 14/06/00
Anti-euro millionaire leans to Hague - 14/06/00
Brown to reaffirm euro policy - 15/06/00
Brown quashes euro rumours - 16/06/00
Cabinet euro rift denied - 16/06/00
Euro fish plans 'threaten' UK fleet - 16/06/00
Fishermen face Brussels curbs to protect dwindling stocks - 17/06/00 Boats at Plymouth will be among many affected by tough new restrictions
Cook refuses to be gagged on pro-euro stance - 17/06/00
Planning for an EU military force - 17/06/00
At a glance: Summit agenda - 19/06/00
Austria haunts EU summit - 19/06/00
EU tax stalemate - 19/06/00
Reform tops EU agenda ; Blair in pledge on euro - 19/06/00 Blair says he would be prepared to lead a massive campaign to persuade the UK to sign up to the euro
Austria under EU pressure - 20/06/00
EU tax compromise blocked - 20/06/00
Euro losing support in Denmark - 20/06/00 With the [Danish] Euro referendum only 3 months away, no-voters are in the majority, according to the latest poll
Brown 'suppressing' euro debate - 21/06/00
Foreign currency rip-off probed - 22/06/00
UK will be 'Europe's corporate HQ' - 22/06/00 "In principle we favour joining a successful single currency" - Blair
Austrians block trans-Alpine highway - 23/06/00
Straw criticises Belgium over immigrants - 25/06/00
Labour's euro-men defy Brown - 27/06/00 Single currency supporters serve notice they will not be silenced by Chancellor
Analysis: Germany back in driving seat - 26/06/00
Chirac praises Franco-German role - 26/06/00
Chirac puts on charm to woo the Germans - 27/06/00 French president begins state visit determined to push for tighter European integration
Report to back EU prosecutor - 27/06/00 Report argues for central European office to combat fraud
Anti-locust drive [in Madagascar] 'created havoc' - 27/06/00 "It was a tremendous waste of aid money. A solution was used for a problem that didn't exist."
Chirac pushes two-speed Europe - 27/06/00
Chirac blueprint for two-tier Europe takes Blair unawares - 28/06/00
Clash looms on two-tier EU - 28/06/00 Chirac vision of two-speed Europe alarms Blair
Chirac brake on German plan for federal Europe - 28/06/00 French President urges creation of 'pioneer group' of countries committed to tighter political integration
Who are the Danish Eurosceptics?
Liddell in storm over euro entry decision - 29/06/00 Conservatives renew their charge that Government has already decided to join currency
French presidency - Chirac and Blair face tough choices on integration - 29/06/00
Britain to champion enlargement of EU - 29/06/00 M Chirac's plans smack of old French ambitions to equip Union with embryonic government
Paris top lawbreaker - 29/06/00 France hones its role as European trailblazer despite 464 outstanding cases for 'infractions'
Gourmet menu out to impress - 29/06/00 The town hall in Nice is spending Fr4.8 million (£456,000) on the summit, most of it going on a fireworks display over the bay... The cost of the French presidency to the taxpayer is a secret although it is likely to be high
France on winning streak - 29/06/00 the French want to fortify Europe as a bastion against the outside world
Blair to discuss two-tier Europe - 29/06/00 the Conservatives have criticised remarks by trade minister Helen Liddell, who allegedly told a German newspaper that the UK might join the euro sooner than most people expected
EU fails child asylum seekers - 29/06/00
Blair urges Germans to spurn EU plan - 30/06/00
Cook push for early euro poll - 30/06/00 Cabinet's pro-euro camp seeks referendum on Britain's single currency membership a year after general election
Britain's roads 'safest in EU' claim ministers - 30/06/00 European Union league table shows statistics for countries with fewest road deaths per head of population
Britain warns against EU inner circle - 30/06/00 The agenda - Tony Blair tells Gerhard Schröder he is opposed to development of two-speed Europe
Blair in Berlin - The euro - 30/06/00 Officials rush to translate Liddell into eurospeak
The rendezvous - 30/06/00 Symbolic spot for exchange of views
The presidency - 30/06/00 Portugal battles for pact on Austria
Commentary - Peter Riddell - 30/06/00 Britain still firmly against joining single currency
Times Leader: Britain should not be bounced into an early ballot on the euro - 30/06/00
Moving forward together, but apart - 30/06/00 Blair disagrees with Cook that all EU states must proceed at the same speed
Europe's future as a superstate - Letters to The Times - 30/06/00
Scandinavian mega-bridge set to open - 30/06/00
Brown wants holiday test for the euro - 02/07/00
Blair blinks in the headlights of the Chirac Euro-bulldozer - 02/07/00 France intent on using its presidency of the European Union to accelerate drive towards greater integration
Superstate dream that keeps coming back to haunt Britain - 02/07/00 It is the Eurosceptics' nightmare: a European superstate that tramples the concerns of individual countries
Eastern alarm over a two-speed EU - 02/07/00 Poland fears being a second-class member
French squeeze Britain on euro - 03/07/00 Tony Blair given clear warning that France will use presidency of EU to push for greater co-operation
Fast-lane signal by Paris leaves Britain sidelined - 03/07/00 France threatens to forge ahead with two-speed Europe during its EU presidency
Our French vision is for an enlarged and thriving Europe - 03/07/00 by Hubert V�drine, the Foreign Minister of France
'Manufacturing meltdown' if UK goes it alone in Europe - 03/07/00 'leaked' memo
DTI leak predicts 'euro meltdown' - 03/07/00
Foreign companies will abandon UK without Euro - "leaked" report - 04/07/00
Japan jobs threat over euro - 04/07/00
The history - 04/07/00 Japan's importance has faded
The markets - 04/07/00 Investors snare the best deals
Leak shows debate cannot be postponed - 04/07/00
Euro: the Japanese warning - The memo - 04/07/00
Blair's foreign appeal fading - 04/07/00 "Mr Blair is past his sell-by date," a senior official in the administration of Lionel Jospin said the other day
Two-tier Europe only a long-term aim, Chirac says - 04/07/00 Proposal annoys Britain, half a dozen EU states, European Commission and French Government
New euro warning leak - 04/07/00
France unveils presidency plans - 04/07/00
Leaked memos look like a campaign - 04/07/00 it is increasingly looking like the rival camps are engaged in virtual open warfare over the issue
Austrians to vote over sanctions - 04/07/00
Blair 'split down the middle' on single currency - 05/07/00 Robin Cook and Stephen Byers, "had to" scrap a joint press conference on figures showing foreign investment in Britain is still booming although it remains outside the eurozone
Brown will not budge on euro - 05/07/00 Chancellor to face down Cabinet's pro-currency camp and refuse to commit himself to decision date
Hanson and Branson in rival camps - 05/07/00 Contending champions of sterling and euro in business world emerge from their corners
Chancellor will keep decision in his magic circle - 05/07/00 Gordon Brown is adamant he will not be railroaded into single currency
Brown's three gurus ... and the tests they will apply - 05/07/00
Senator urges sceptics to back US pact - 05/07/00 Phil Gramm wants Britain in free trade agreement with his country
Brown in middle of a long and winding road - 05/07/00
Brown bids to damp euro row - 05/07/00
Foreign cash creates record jobs - 05/07/00
Cabinet rift widens over euro - 06/07/00
Blair gives euro hint - 06/07/00
Germany and Italy endorse Chirac's EU vision - 07/07/00
Cook says joining euro inevitable - 07/07/00 Foreign Secretary re-opens the Cabinet split over currency
Patten says: take on euro sceptics - 07/07/00 Commissioner steps up criticism of Government's failure to campaign for euro
Eurozone tension after OECD alert - 07/07/00 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns French economy could overheat
UK told [by Wim Duisenberg] it needs euro - 07/07/00 "Great Britain satisfies all the conditions to enter, except that foreseen for exchange rates."
US-EU trade war set to escalate - 07/07/00
Brown gets Number 10 to disown Cook - 09/07/00 Prime minister agrees to chancellor's demands to 'rubbish' the foreign secretary over his comments on the euro
The ghastly inevitability of Europe's federal drift - 09/07/00
Euro row spreads to chocolate firm - 10/07/00 Nestle tells unions that sterling strength poses threat to main UK confectionery factory in York
Europe may give money to federal parties - 10/07/00 Labour and Liberal Democrats would get taxpayer money to fight domestic elections under new EU plan
EU moves attacked - 10/07/00 Stronger executive led by a directly elected president is proposed by Michel Barnier
EU may lift 'failed' Milosevic sanctions - 11/07/00
TUC seeks euro action to help industry - 11/07/00 Britain should buy European currency on money markets to weaken the pound, union says
Fault makes millions of euro worthless - 11/07/00 Millions of 100 euro notes are destined for the shredder, following a mistake at a German printing plant (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Germans recall £20bn in forgeable euro notes - 12/07/00 325 million notes found to have defective anti-fraud holograph
Minds made up on euro, says MP - 12/07/00 Senior Tory calls for referendum on single currency this September
Prescott to boost regional agencies - 12/07/00 Deputy Prime Minister signals increased funding for controversial RDAs amid accusations of cronyism
Dirty tricks row over successor to Heseltine - 13/07/00 Tory Reform Group infuriates Henley members by backing pro-single currency candidate
Prodi urges dialogue with pariah Austria - 13/07/00 President of European Commission takes issue with continued diplomatic isolation of member state
Human rights law costs taxpayer £65m - 13/07/00 Government anticipates upsurge in breach cases
Lawyers create waves with specialist aims - 13/07/00 Human Rights Act breeds spin-off barrister set
Brussels targets children to sell euro - 16/07/00
New rights will make for bad law, say Tories - 16/07/00 Miss Widdecombe said a ruling on Friday, in which two drivers had their speeding fines overturned because their human rights had been "infringed", was the first of many "nonsense" cases
Growth of EU could cost £24bn in farm aid - 16/07/00
Toss-up likely to settle pound's fate - 17/07/00
Most nations will scrap currencies, says Clarke - 17/07/00
Buoyant Danes set their face against the euro - 17/07/00
We are bridge to America, says Blair - 18/07/00 American Bar Association delegates in London told Britain is ready to act as 'leading partner' in shaping Europe
Inflation figures stoke eurozone rate fears - 19/07/00
Euro 'to cost UK banks and shops £4.5bn' - 19/07/00 from the experience of banks in the Netherlands and Belgium, it would add between 3pc and 6pc to operating costs
Joining euro is still the goal, Blair tells Japan - 20/07/00
British firm wins fight to produce euro coins - 20/07/00
EU says all food vendors need a licence - 22/07/00 Every British outlet, even ice cream and hot dog stands, must prove compliance to strict hygiene standards
Blair touts Britain as 'key player' in Europe - 23/07/00 when he stepped up his efforts yesterday to win public support for membership of the single currency
Join Nafta and ignore threats of EU, says Redwood - 26/07/00
THE YOUGOV INTERVIEW: John Redwood, MP
Sir Eddie must have a say on euro, says Portillo - 26/07/00
Blair leak: political case for euro 'overwhelming' - 27/07/00 Prime Minister secretly admits 'it would be far better to be open and up front about this'
Why Labour is losing the euro argument - 27/07/00 Philip Gould and Stanley Greenberg believe Government must adopt new strategy to succeed on currency
Full text of Tony Blair's memo 'Standing up for Britain' - 27/07/00 'We must expose Tory posturing - or look weak'
Cheerleaders' advice adopted within days - 27/07/00 It took exactly a week from memorandum for advice to be taken up by Tony Blair and pro-euro ministers
Clinton adviser with an eye for popular issues - 27/07/00 Stanley Greenberg has the ear of President Clinton, President Mandela and Tony Blair
New Blair leak: Case for the euro is 'overwhelming' - 27/07/00
Blair leak: Case for euro overwhelming - 27/08/00
Leaks reveal change of tone on euro - 27/07/00
Euro to 'benefit' UK economy - 28/07/00
Britain 'almost meets euro conditions' - 28/07/00
Britain's gay sex laws are declared unlawful - 01/08/00
Rights charter 'may form constitution for EU superstate' - 01/08/00 some nations, including Italy and Germany, are pressing for it to be justiciable by the European Court - which could result in EU judges becoming the final arbiter of British rights
Hill farmers face crisis under EU's aid scheme - 04/08/00
'Join the euro or we'll quit Britain' - 04/08/00 Head of world's biggest electronics firm delivers stark warning to Blair
Indecision over euro 'risks jobs' - 05/08/00
Revealed: the scandal of EU delays over disaster aid - 06/08/00 the European Union takes an average of four years and two months to deliver aid to victims of global disasters
UK report 'condemns EU aid policy' - 06/08/00
EU accused of meddling in schools - 07/08/00 by approving a £300 million budget to develop a "European dimension" in education
MPs condemn EC aid delays - 08/08/00
Human Rights Act: Lessons must be learned from Scotland - 08/08/00
Blair 'using Toyota to do dirty work' on the euro - 11/08/00
Holland and Belgium ban British pigs - 12/08/00
Pasteurised raw eggs fall foul of rules - 14/08/00
Honda boost to car output welcomed by Eurosceptics - 14/08/00 Car firm dispels fears that Japanese companies would desert Britain over euro
English pig exports banned - 14/08/00
EC bans UK pig exports to curb swine fever - 15/08/00
Irish inflation sparks euro fears - 16/08/00
Surge in number of foreign companies in the UK - 16/08/00 surge in the number of foreign-owned companies in the UK despite the strength of the pound
Blair 'using NHS in euro drive' - 17/08/00
Battle escalates over exchange merger - 18/08/00
Don't ban our pork, Brown tells Europe - 21/08/00
City think-tank calls for Frankfurt exchange tie-up to be abandoned - 21/08/00 the markets' interests would be better served if the two exchanges remained separate and competed for business
What the City thinks about the merger - 21/08/00 "I can see us in a few years lamenting how London once was a great financial centre"
Ireland's race against inflation can't be won with the euro - 21/08/00
Unilever 'pressures' suppliers on euro - 21/08/00
Brussels 'debasing German language' - 22/08/00
EU meets to discuss pig ban - 22/08/00
Inflation puts skids under euro - 24/08/00
Europe forces England to declare new nature sites - 25/08/00
British pets put at risk under EU bull terrier ban - 25/08/00
Drive to sell euro finds few friends in [Danish] factories - 25/08/00
Euro recovery short-lived - 25/08/00 One euro now buys $0.8987
Austria sanctions may be dropped to win euro vote - 28/08/00
'No' vote evaporating as big guns back euro - 29/08/00 46 of the 48 newspapers in Denmark are behind the euro campaign
UK News: Shortage of euro notes and coins 'threatens crisis for shops' - 29/08/00
EU threatens post office rescue - 29/08/00
Euro fraud crackdown 'is a flop' - 30/08/00
Dixons backs sterling yet trades in euros - 30/08/00 more euro-creep
Pro-Euro group fails to stage celebrity coup - 30/08/00
Labour accused of deceiving voters over the euro - 31/08/00
European bank on the spot as currency dives - 31/08/00 89.34 cents - its lowest for three months
Eurozone interest rates up - 31/08/00 by 0.25% to 4.5%
Labour launches attack on euro-sceptic press - 01/09/00 Mr Vaz will condemn what he claims is evidence of media xenophobia
Minister [Vaz] attacks 'xenophobic' press - 01/09/00
Euro's struggle continues - 01/09/00
Hague plans to wrest legal powers back from Brussels - 03/09/00
Anti-euro groups combine to run No campaign - 03/09/00 including Business for Sterling and David Owen's New Europe
Tories square up to 'Eurocrats' - 03/09/00
Tories defend focus on Europe - 03/09/00
Anti-euro campaign launches - 03/09/00 "Europe Yes. Euro No." No Euro
Tories square up to 'Eurocrats' - 03/09/00
Campaign aims to block euro vote - 04/09/00
Owen returns to lead fight against the euro - 04/09/00
EU chief reprimanded for gaffe - 04/09/00
EU uses summer break to slip in new secrecy laws - 04/09/00
Field urges Danes to vote 'No' to euro - 04/09/00
Anti-euro campaign launched - 04/09/00
Schröder seeks to limit damage over EU growth 'gaffe' - 05/09/00
Euro falls to record low [$0.8822] - 06/09/00 ECB board member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa stressed that the new currency needed political union
End in sight for Austrian sanctions - 08/09/00
Union says 'go slow' on euro - 08/09/00
Single market key to prosperity - Byers - 08/09/00
EU told: 'End Austria sanctions' - 08/09/00
Austria welcomes EU sanctions report - 09/09/00
Mandelson calls for Euro decision - 09/09/00
Brown blamed for euro job losses - 11/09/00
Euro crashes to fresh low [$0.8574] - 11/09/00
Fears over French BSE - 12/09/00
Britain fights EU rights charter - 12/09/00
New toll of woe for drivers - 12/09/00 European Court of Justice orders Government to levy VAT on all tolls at main bridges and tunnels
Judges face torrent of human rights claims - 12/09/00
TUC split on the euro - 12/09/00
London cancels market merger - 12/09/00
EU states lift Austrian sanctions - 12/09/00
Victory for Austria as EU lifts sanctions - 13/09/00
Sir Eddie breaks ranks to sound euro warning - 13/09/00 "Monetary union is fundamentally a political project rather than an economic issue."
Weak euro drags the pound lower - 13/09/00
Wait for it . . . you can't call this a sterling crisis - yet - 13/09/00
'Disastrous' EC ruling halts urban renewal - 14/09/00
Haider derides EU over sanctions - 14/09/00
Charter of Rights hailed as 'a turning point for Europe' - 14/09/00
Euro slump boosts [Danish] 'no' campaign - 15/09/00
Reserves sold to prop up krone - 18/09/00
Weak euro boost to [UK] manufacturing - 18/09/00
French fury as Zurich's schools put English first - 18/09/00
Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs - 19/09/00 The documents confirm suspicions voiced at the time that America was working aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into a European state !!!!!!!
Rover reverses euro-only policy - 19/09/00
Euro will not hit pensions, Danes told - 19/09/00
More than money -- Denmark and the euro - 19/09/00
Euro 'a political argument' - Monks (Lib-Dem) - 19/09/00
US agents pressed Danes to join EU - 20/09/00 Washington exerted its influence through a US intelligence front
TUC chief calls for a stronger euro campaign - 20/09/00
EU damaging to Irish identity, says minister - 20/09/00
Euro tests new lows [$0.8444] - 20/09/00
Blair accused of treason over Europe - 21/09/00
Britain urged to block EU charter of rights - 21/09/00
Can Britain afford the Bill of Rights? - 21/09/00
Final draft is likely to win approval - 21/09/00
Applaud the Act, says Irvine - 21/09/00
Full text of the draft charter of fundamental rights - 21/09/00
Daily Telegraph: Veto the Charter - 21/09/00 its articles would effectively end the independence of Britain, and all member states
EU may put brake on tax concessions - 21/09/00
EMU taxes 'would fuel more demonstrations' - 21/09/00
CBI leads attack on EU charter's right to strike - 21/09/00
Central banks intervene to boost euro - 22/09/00
G7 ready for further euro action - 23/09/00
Mandelson sure of euro poll victory - 25/09/00
Euro holds ground in edgy early trade - 25/09/00
Sweden eyes Denmark warily - 25/09/00
Danish leader warns of 'high price' of anti-euro vote - 25/09/00
UK watches Denmark - 27/09/00
To join or not to join? For and against the euro - 27/09/00
Danish PM's charm offensive - 27/09/00
Danish 'no' campaigners claim victory - 28/09/00
Danish vote rocks Blair - 28/09/00
Thumbs down for euro after cliffhanger vote - 29/09/00
Euro stable after Danish 'no' - 29/09/00
Danish vote boosts eurosceptics - 29/09/00
Europe plays down Danish 'no' vote - 29/09/00
Q&A: What now for the euro? - 29/09/00
Ministers stand by euro vote plan - 29/09/00
King Canute: Lessons from a great Dane - 29/09/00
Landmark human rights law enforced - 02/10/00
Redwood 'declares war' on EU treaty - 03/10/00
Were the Danes right to reject the euro? - 03/10/00
Battle for sterling won in 10 minutes - 03/10/00
Eurozone interest rate rise - 05/10/00 up by 0.25% to 4.75%
Euro hovers close to lows - 06/10/00
Tory Candidate Orientations on European Policy
Anti-euro group fears repeat [of ERM fiasco] - 09/10/00
Drug profit confiscations outlawed - 13/10/00 European Convention on Human Rights
Blair in crime proceeds pledge - 14/10/00
Tories accuse Blair of 'giving in' to Europe - 16/10/00
European wrongs - 16/10/00 TONY BLAIR had two objectives at the Biarritz summit: to prevent the emergence of a "two-speed Europe", and to ensure that the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights did not become a European constitution. He has failed on both counts
EU's pension rule change 'to lift City' - 16/10/00
Embassy flagpole flies in the face of EU diplomacy - 17/10/00
Euro below 85 cents after Duisenberg U-turn over intervention - 17/10/00 84.85 cents - just 0.1 cent above its all-time low
Jospin sees dream team collapse as Aubry quits - 18/10/00
Business criticises EU ban on jobs bias - 18/10/00 It violates a basic principle of English law, that you are innocent until proven guilty
Euro slumps to record low [$0.8366 cents] - 18/10/00
Half of all target seat Tories 'are anti-euro' - 19/10/00
The Candidlist What do Your Parliamentary Candidates think about European Integration?
Euro: Blair says not yet - 19/10/00
Blair bids to neutralise euro issue - 19/10/00
Euro falls to all-time low [83.95 cents] see graph - 20/10/00 "People in the City have started referring to the euro as toilet paper."
Euro currency threatens an inflationary bridge too far - 20/10/00
Hague on attack as Blair backtracks over sinking euro - 20/10/00 "A crude attempt to persuade the gullible that Britain's most euro-fanatic leader ever is in fact a closet euro-sceptic backfired when Tony Blair had to eat his own words hours after uttering them" ... Mr Blair's office sought to play down the Prime Minister's comment
Press bias on EU confuses public, claims Kinnock - 20/10/00 Charles Moore, editor of The Daily Telegraph, said that the national press were 60-40 against the euro, measured in terms of the size of their circulations, which roughly reflected public opinion - 20/10/00
Currency poll is bound to fail, says Mori chief - 20/10/00
Euro drops to $0.83 record low - 25/10/00 in New York sentiment towards the euro was "totally negative"
Euro plunges yet again [$0.8232] - 26/10/00
US to pull out of Nato if EU force goes ahead - 29/10/00
Blair issues visa threat to halt wave of migrants - 29/10/00
Eurofile: Criticism of the European Union is akin to blasphemy and could be restricted -29/10/00
Coming next: a Europe-wide legal system - 29/10/00 The day is fast approaching when you could be arrested by a Europol officer, charged under European law, and tried before an EU court
Brussels to remove royal crest from British passport - 29/10/00
Pledge to protect British passport - 29/10/00 Downing Street: "We would have strong reservations"
Tory fury at EU plan to scrap royal crest on passport - 30/10/00
Vaz rejects Prodi's call to end EU national veto - 01/11/00
Kinnock criticises 'bilge' in press - 01/11/00
Another voice on Europe - 01/11/00
We need the nation state today more than ever - by Francis Maude - 01/11/00 "a bottle of champagne for the reader who can convincingly distinguish a superpower from a superstate"
Brussels veto attack puts new pressure on Blair - 01/11/00
Rights Act could force planning law change - 02/11/00
Euro rally on hold - 02/11/00
The threat of a strong euro - 02/11/00
Euro gets second central bank boost - 03/11/00
Foreign Office 'forced Europe on to curriculum' - 28/10/00 "Diplomats" put pressure on the Department of Education
Europe reviews human rights - 03/11/00
CBI: Shelve workers rights plans - 05/11/00
UK cod fishing 'could be halted' - 06/11/00
Third intervention to boost euro - 06/11/00
Prodi: Give euro two years - 06/11/00
Chirac demands CJD action - 07/11/00
BSE alarm spreads across Europe - 10/11/00
Ministers step up war on Eurosceptics - 13/11/00
Blair's 'patriotic' European vision - 13/11/00
Blair ducks the euro - 13/11/00
Blair's pledge to keep UK veto on tax - 14/11/00
We'll nail the lies on Europe, says Cook - 14/11/00
Mr Nasty and Mr Nice (Cook & Blair) - 14/11/00 The European Commission plans to scrap Britain's veto in nearly 50 categories of policy
EU gets tough [with Britain] over stranded sub - 14/11/00
Will EU charter hit its mark? - 14/11/00
20,000 British troops to serve in Euro-army - 14/11/00
Minister [Geoff Hoon] denies Euro army move - 14/11/00
Mandelson questions euro strategy - 16/11/00
MPs warn on euro costs - 16/11/00
EU fraud costs millions - 16/11/99
EU battles to save cod - 17/11/00
Dealers question euro surge - 17/11/00 Euro slumps on Bush boost
EU veto loss 'in national interest' - 17/11/00
Troops pledged to new EU force - 20/11/00
EU ministers approve army plan - 20/11/00
Euro army explained - 20/11/00
Euro army widens political splits - 20/11/00
Talks to widen EU force - 21/11/00
Blair turns on 'Euro army' critics - 21/11/00
Thatcher condemns 'EU army' - 22/11/00
Blair's problems deepen over Europe - 24/11/00
Brown seeks EU tax deal - 26/11/00
Blair's pro-European offensive eclipsed - 28/11/00
EU draws up a draft 'constitution' - 29/11/00
Little hope for EU expansion summit - 30/11/00
Britain agrees to bail out euro failures - 03/12/00 British taxpayers will be forced to bail out countries suffering economic problems because of their membership of the European single currency
Euro gains strength - 04/12/00
Mandelson forecasts Nice 'landmark' - 05/12/00
Tightrope diplomacy in Nice - 05/12/00
Deep fault lines exposed as EU negotiations open - 06/12/00 Nice summit threatens to expose deep divisions within the EU
Blair under fire on Euro issues - 06/12/00 fresh accusations of misleading the public over Europe
Blair flies in to new Euro row - 06/12/00 the Germans and Italians united to call for closer ties... as Peter Mandelson, the Cabinet's most ardent pro-European, tried to draw a line under the issue by declaring that "the march to ever closer union is dead".
Major warns Blair over EU veto / Blair talks up EU summit hopes - 07/12/00
Rights charter launches EU summit - 07/12/00
Chirac springs surprise on defence - 07/12/00 defying earlier agreements that the force would not compromise Nato's role
BBC programmes 'heavily biased in favour of EU' - 08/12/00 The survey, conducted by an independent media monitoring company, claimed that the BBC's Today programme was twice as likely to feature pro-Europeans as Eurosceptics
EU tackles its own divisions - 08/12/00
Treaty 'will be in Britain's interests' - 08/12/00
EU leaders lock horns - 09/12/00
EU leaders tackle thorniest issues - 10/12/00
Eddie George: Euro 'must prove its muscle' - 10/12/00
Britain wins battle over tax veto - 10/12/00
We're right to stay out of euro, says Sir Edward - 11/12/00
Europe's leaders wrestle for power and influence - 11/12/00
Vote-grab by the Big Five leaves smaller states outgunned and outraged - 11/12/00 the Portuguese muttered about a "coup d'etat" and threatened to walk out of the summit
EU leaders scramble to fix a deal - 11/12/00
Blair up against the clock as he fights on to derail EU gravy train - 11/12/00
Blair troops appeal fails - 11/12/00
Blair hails Nice success - 11/12/00
EU strikes reform deal after marathon - 11/12/00
Analysis: The EU's rollercoaster summit - 11/12/00
British beef 'safer than French' - 13/12/00
Nato meets as Euro row deepens - 14/12/00
EU fish catches face huge cuts - 14/12/00
France ends EU presidency - 31/12/00
Secrets of 1970 revealed - 01/01/01 The year saw the launch of the UK's bid to enter the EEC, - but papers reveal that the government downplayed sovereignty issues out of fear of losing public support
UK downplayed sovereignty in Euro talks - 01/01/01
Euro is only EU success, says former chancellor - 01/01/01
German banks to bear euro's cost - 03/01/01
Goldsmith widow targets Europhiles - 13/01/01
'Metric martyr' faces £5,000 fine - 15/01/01
Brussels ban could ruin animal food mills - 17/01/01
Brown calls for EU growth drive - 19/01/01
Fischer backs off EU 'superstate' - 24/01/01
Fischer taunts Tories on Europe - 25/01/01 insisting that their fears of a European superstate had "nothing whatsoever" to do with reality
The future of Europe according to Joschka - 25/01/01
Brussels tells Irish to toe line on EMU - 25/01/01
Banana firm sues European Union - 25/01/01
Full House of Lords may weigh the case of the 'metric martyr' - 29/01/01
French minister attacks Britain for 'narrow ideas' on EU - 29/01/01 The comments were part of a campaign by Paris to prevent Germany downgrading the Franco-German alliance in favour of closer links with London
Brown refuses to put figure on cost of euro - 30/01/01
Hague: 'Last chance to save pound' - 31/01/01 Friedrich Merz said the CDU and Tories would work closer together
France and Germany outline 'single vision' - 01/02/01
Voters 'losing faith in euro' - 01/02/01
Tories rally for pound - 02/02/01
Cook tries to calm US fears over EU army - 02/02/01
Fury at banned beef imports - 03/02/01
Brown's proposal to cut VAT on church repairs deemed illegal by Brussels - 03/02/01
Britain vows to back US on Euro force - 04/02/01
Warning shot on EU army by White House - 05/02/01
Brown attacked over Churches' VAT setback - 05/02/01
Redwood backs EU renegotiation - 06/02/01
Euro decision within two years of election - 07/02/01
Hague wants euro election campaign - 07/02/01
Hague in 'email alert' - 08/02/01
Blair slip starts euro countdown - 09/02/01
Hague email campaign to save pound - 09/02/01
A referendum on Labour - 09/02/01
Forces chief fires Nato broadside over Euro-army - 09/02/01
Cook fails to ease American doubts on EU defence plans - 09/02/01
Blair and Chirac split over defence - 10/02/01
Summit deal to fight asylum crisis - 10/02/01
Powell and Rumsfeld at odds over Euro-army - 11/02/01
It was never the euro that Brown hated - 11/02/01
'Staggering' chaos in countdown to Euro - 11/02/01
Blair's euro plans hit as EC insists on two-year probation - 11/02/01
Brown gears up to win 'yes' vote on euro - 11/02/01 Chancellor, believing voters are hard-headed, ready to throw weight behind euro entry 'when conditions are right'
EU says UK 'ready for euro' - 12/02/01
Euro cash tough to launch - 12/02/01 there are worries that chaos at the changeover could damage the electoral fortunes of Europe's entire mainstream political elite
EU turns up heat on Ireland - 12/02/01
Britain and Ireland refuse to obey Brussels on spending - 13/02/01
Buoyant Britain passes the test for joining EMU - 13/02/01
The rules of engagement - 13/02/01 The Maastricht criteria for Britain joining EMU
'Celtic Thatcher' takes on Brussels - 13/02/01 Charlie McCreevy, the Irish finance minister
'Britain in Europe' upset over Blair 'dithering' - 13/02/01
The UK's road to the euro - 13/02/01
Prodi wants 'no holds barred' EU debate - 13/02/01
Ireland's EU test - 13/02/01 look to Ireland to see what would happen if the United Kingdom were to abolish the pound
Irish won't dance to Brussels' tune - 14/02/01
European army and political union were planned by Nazis - 15/02/01
Prodi: Non-euro Britain 'losing influence' - 15/02/01
The British need to be multilingual, say [French & German] envoys - 16/02/01 ...urging Britain to protect itself - "and us" - from American-based electronic English
The German view: Language is the essence of national character - 16/02/01
The French view: You are afraid of making fools of yourselves - 16/02/01
France begins one-year countdown to euro - 17/02/01 The French franc has exactly a year to live before it is abolished on 17th Feb 2002
Irish use of aid 'for tax cuts' incurs EU wrath - 17/02/01
Britons uncertain over single currency - 17/02/01
Cook attacks Tory Euro policy - 17/02/01
Referendum Street (BBC)
Robertson welcomes Russian 'Star Wars' - 20/02/01
Bush offers support for European force - 24/02/01
NHS money 'wasted on euro plan' - 24/02/01
Eurofile: Scandal inquiries threaten Prodi's reformist image - 24/02/01
Young Britons are a race apart in Europe, says poll - 26/03/01 only 21 per cent of the Britons canvassed considered themselves to be European
Hostility deepens to our EU neighbours - 26/03/01
Generation Europe leaves Brits out - 26/03/01
EU force will not need Nato, says French military chief - 28/03/01
Chunnel link 'not worth it' - 28/03/01
North-south split persists: Mandelson - 30/03/01
UK attacked over refugee 'racism' - 03/04/01
Trader guilty of selling in pounds - 10/04/01
Metric law agreed in just 21 minutes - 10/04/01
Bananas - 10/04/01 The conviction of Steven Thoburn for selling bananas by the pound is outrageous on so many levels that it is difficult to know where criticism should begin
Vaz 'at odds with officials over Euro-army' - 11/04/01
EU 'using dirty tricks to support Tony Blair' - 11/04/01 initiative, which would burden firms with another set of regulations, is delayed until after the UK General Election
Blair 'misled public over EU reaction force' - 12/04/01 This force is not locked into Nato, it will compete with Nato and undermine our defence
EU goes global as Patten chases superpower role - 12/04/01 hostility towards America has become the "sub-text" of the EU's new Common Foreign and Security Policy
Britain faces EU action over parental leave - 13/04/01
Pro-euro directors 'shamed' - 16/04/01
EU criticised over internal market reform - 18/04/01
'Impossible' for Britain to keep immigrant veto - 25/04/01
Poor growth forecast hits Brussels like a thunderbolt - 25/04/01
EC tells Brown to curb spending - 26/04/01
EU deals fresh blow to farmers - 26/04/01 up to £26 million a year for the disposal of fallen stock
Union Flag banned on car number plates - 26/04/01 There is a maximum fine of £1,000
Tory [Maude] warns Bush team of anti-US mood in EU - 26/04/01
EU 'failing to stamp out fraud' - 26/04/01
'Metric martyr' decides to appeal - 27/04/01 following a wave of public support
German proposal for EU Government - 29/04/01 calls for the European Commission to be turned into a new government, and the Council of Ministers into a second chamber
'Euro government' sparks alarm - 29/04/01
Schr"der plan calls for European government - 30/04/01
Schroeder EU vision causes stir - 30/04/01
Socialists support Schr"der's plan for united Europe - 01/05/01
Germans look for comfort under continental quilt - 01/05/01
The future of Europe: Justin Webb quizzed - 02/05/01
Inside Europe (undated) - 02/05/01 a BBC guide to life inside the European Union
France spurns German call for Euro-rule - 03/05/01 "It's an idea that goes a long way down a German, that is to say federalist, road"... The Belgians want to draw up by the end of the year a Declaration on the Future of the Union, the so-called Laken Declaration
Unhappy Schr"der moves into 'too grand' Chancellery - 03/05/01 But he was careful to point out that it was only a building, not a statement of German ambition or power
Tories want EU run by Cabinet ministers - 03/05/01 rather than the Brussels Commission
Tories want a Cabinet minister in Brussels - 04/05/01 answering regularly to the British Parliament and being prevented from "going native" in Brussels
Cook's EU post pleases Germans - 06/05/01 Cook, one of the Government's most pro-Europe figures, will become the first Labour minister to chair the Parties of European Socialists (PES) grouping
Brown tells Brussels to stop meddling - 07/05/01
EU socialists move to tip balance of power - 08/05/01
Europe by stealth - 08/05/01 The Labour party's approach is to talk about Europe as little as possible... the BBC has been told not to be "distracted" by stories about Europe
Make a difference - 09/05/01 The New Labour ideology knows its enemies. They include people who define their identity as English, and servicemen who would prefer to serve Queen and country rather than a European army. They particularly dislike those - 70% of the population - who want to keep the pound.
Cook signs Left's blueprint for EU - 09/05/01 While dodging questions on whether he wanted Britain to join the euro during his term as PES president, Mr Cook said that, thanks to Labour's policies over the past four years, Britain was now "in the mainstream of European politics".
Britain 'out of step' over federal EU - 09/05/01
Party leaders clash on euro - 09/05/01 Blair told MPs: "In principle we are in favour of joining"
Another greengrocer joins metric challenge - 11/05/01
Euro-MPs in spy hunt 'snubbed by Bush' - 11/05/01
EU investigators 'snubbed' in US - 11/05/01
Rifkind: majority want to keep pound - 12/05/01
Cook hits out at Nazi slur on Schroder - 12/05/01
Eurofile: Small businesses face tougher law on redundancies - 12/05/01
It is not about tax - 13/05/01 the true difference between the Conservatives and Labour will be over Britain's future role in the European Union and the specific question of the European single currency
Blair caves in to Brussels over union powers - 13/05/01 he is secretly preparing a policy U-turn that, if he wins the general election, would hand the trade unions new powers
Immigrant law puts freight route at risk - 13/05/01 The French authorities notoriously turn a blind eye to would-be emigrants to Britain
Berlusconi: a leader ready to rock the EU boat - 15/05/01
Euro could cause chaos, EU told - 15/05/01
Hague in fresh EU row - 15/05/01 he will not discipline candidates who sign a petition calling for a referendum on withdrawal from the European Union
Hague lets Tories sign petition on quitting EU - 16/05/01
EU 'faces rift with US on defence spending' - 17/05/01 European defence spending is dropping relentlessly
Germans warned to expect euro crimewave - 17/05/01 14.25 billion euro notes will go into circulation in the euro zone in the first few months of next year. They will be worth 640 billion euros (£396.4 billion)
EU condemned over planned 'snoop laws' - 17/05/01 Documents leaked to Statewatch, a civil liberties and state monitoring group, reveal that the EU is being lobbied to rip up existing data protection and telecommunications legislation and give law enforcement agencies powers denied to repressive regimes
Government 'deceived public' over edata plan - 18/05/01 to force telephone and internet companies to keep records of all communications for seven years
Beware Euro army, says Major - 18/05/01 He accuses Tony Blair of playing into the hands of the French by undermining the primacy of the Nato alliance
Britain may come to regret Blair's Euro-army muddle - By John Major - 18/05/01
Italy threatens EU enlargement over loss of aid to south - 18/05/01 EU's so-called "club-Med" countries, while paying lip service to the goal of enlargement, know it will hit their budgets hard as they will no longer be the poorest members
I would never give up the pound, declares Thatcher - 23/05/01 "New Labour in its shrivelled heart" was embarrassed by Britain's history and was seeking to remove Britain's sovereignty by "stealth"
Iron Lady attacks 'arrogant' New Labour - 23/05/01 "The greatest issue in this election is whether Britain is to remain a free, independent nation state. Or whether we are to be dissolved in a federal Europe. There are no half-measures, no third ways - and no second chances"
Euro was Nazi idea, says Tory veteran - 23/05/01 "A single European currency was first proposed by the Nazi Reichsbank to Hitler at the time of Dunkirk as a means of perpetuating German dominance in Europe. Now it is EU policy."
Leader: Hard pounding - 23/05/01 Tax and Europe were the two issues that both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown most wished to avoid
Parties battle over Europe - 23/05/01
Parties on defensive over Europe - 23/05/01
Euro slides over growth fears - 23/05/01 fell to $0.8581 in morning trade in London, its lowest level since November
What the European Commission tax plan could mean - 24/05/01 the document opens the door for Brussels to meddle for the first time in the area of income tax
Parties draw battle lines over Europe - 25/05/01 Tony Blair yesterday gave his strongest indication yet that Labour wants to scrap the pound if it returns to power on June 7
No stopping federal advance - 25/05/01 plans to turn the EU into a full-fledged superstate are moving at "lighting speed"
Turning the European tide - 25/05/01 why does Mr Blair talk of leaving the EU as though it were something so utterly unthinkable? Is he saying he wants to be at the heart of the EU regardless of how great the disadvantages might be? Is he committing Labour to EU membership for ever?
Blair talks up euro - 25/05/01 under Labour "the pound is doomed"
Intervention threat bolsters euro - 25/05/01
Ford calls for UK euro entry - 25/05/01
'No blank cheque' for Brown - 26/05/01 Blair's remarks were seen at Westminster as a deliberate attempt to re-assert his own authority
Hague seeks to turn the election into vote on euro - 26/05/01
Tories playing with fire on EU, says Blair - 26/05/01
Time to change Labour's single currency mantra - 26/05/01
Two weeks to save the pound, says Hague - 26/05/01 The cost of scrapping the Pound is £36,000,000,000 - equivalent to building a whole new Millennium Dome every month for the next three years - and what do we get in return? Nothing
Blair's 1982 election leaflet: "Above all, the EEC takes away Britain's freedom to follow the economic policies we need"
The euro - let's have the facts - 26/05/01 the Prime Minister has for the first time come out fighting for the single currency
Times: The Labour pound: Britain will thrive best in Europe outside the single currency - 26/05/01 EMU has always been a political venture and is so described in every European country but this
Hague warns of euro defeat - 26/05/01
Britain fails to heal rift on EU force - 26/05/01 the dispute could expose Mr Blair to renewed Tory accusations that he is undermining Nato
Euro army unveils Germanic anthem - 27/05/01 British troops taking part in operations with the new European rapid reaction force will march to a Germanic-sounding anthem
Jospin's vision of EU fans the federal flames - 27/05/01 French PM Lionel Jospin raised Britain's election debate on Europe by calling for a socialist "federation of nation states"
Jospin reveals 'superstate' plan - 29/05/01 Labour, clearly embarrassed, sought to divert attention
Jospin has something to upset everyone - 29/05/01
Jospin's ideas confirm worst fears of sceptics - 29/05/01 calling for a full-scale "economic government" along socialist lines
Jospin fuels Europe row with Labour - 29/05/01
Labour was put on the election defensive by a Lionel Jospin speech calling for an EU "economic government"
Forget the Tories: what about Labour's splits on Europe? - 29/05/01 How Labour has managed to avoid any focus on its own splits for so long is one of the great political mysteries
Leader: An election about Europe - 29/05/01 If even a quarter of M Jospin's agenda were implemented, the EU would become a state in its own right
Tensions hide the drive to integration - 29/05/01
Tories say euro vote must refer to pound - 29/05/01
Michael Gove: Don't trust Blair and his patriot games - 29/05/01 The PM's disdain for our history is matched only by his ignorance of it
There will be no turning back if we join the euro, says Hague - 29/05/01
Disaster warning for firms over launch of euro - 29/05/01
Prodi undermines Blair on Europe - 29/05/01
Be bold in Europe - Blair - 29/05/01 Romano Prodi is expected to demand more power for Brussels
'Tell us euro cost' - Hague - 29/05/01
Tax plan fans Europe row - 29/05/01 John Major accused Labour under Tony Blair of "bare-faced deception"
Prodi urges Brussels to tighten grip on the euro - 30/05/01 Mr Prodi said the time had come for Europe to move beyond the single market and construct a fully-fledged "political union"
Britain bows to EU's art demands - 30/05/01 Britain will lose business to America and Switzerland
Brown sidesteps Tory devaluation challenge - 30/05/01
Question that will decide fate of the pound - 30/05/01 The Conservatives have accused Labour of planning to ask a biased question like: "Should Britain join the euro when the time is right?" which is a bit like asking: "should we all jump over a cliff when the time is right?"
Euro stays at six-month low - 31/05/01 below $0.85 (and below 60p)
French call for 'avant garde' of EU states - 01/06/01
Tony Blair is committed to the extinction of Britain - by Margaret Thatcher - 01/06/01 Whether Mr Blair was sincere four years ago I do not know. But if he was, he rapidly changed his mind
Euro police HQ raided in fraud inquiry - 02/06/01
Irish backing for Nice Treaty falls - 02/06/01
Pound hits 15-year low - 06/06/01 A report that Labour will use a landslide general election victory as a platform for launching Britain into the eurozone has prompted a fall in sterling to $1.3920

A close look at the Reform Treaty - 03/08/07

Leading EU nations see slowdown - 14/08/07

EU urges Texas to end executions - 21/08/07

Brown rejects union EU vote call - 22/08/07

Vaz adds to EU referendum calls - 01/09/07

UK vows to back Turkey's EU bid - 05/09/07 David Miliband of course

Gordon Brown in EU treaty warning - 05/09/07 but does he mean it?

Mandelson warning on EU vote call - 07/09/07

Queen may be scrapped from UK passports - 09/09/07 full-blown treason

EU gives up on 'metric Britain' - 11/09/07 look out - it's just a decoy

EU cuts 2007 eurozone growth rate - 11/09/07

Triple blow for Gordon Brown over EU vote - 13/09/07 Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Luxembourg are trying to "claw back" more of the abandoned European Constitution - and erode British sovereignty in the process

Dutch cabinet to discuss EU vote - 21/09/07

Jobs fears as euro gets stronger - 21/09/07

Dutch cabinet rules out EU vote - 21/09/07

Hague issues TV debate challenge - 25/09/07

Dutch Labour MPs reject EU vote - 26/09/07

Thatcher: Let the people speak on EU treaty - 30/09/07

Two thirds of voters want EU referendum - 01/10/07

Mandelson in EU debate warning - 12/10/07

New MEP seating plan irks Italy - 12/10/07

EU and Bulgaria in alphabet row - 12/10/07

Brown thinks he can fool us with Euro-spin - 14/10/07

Cameron renews call on EU treaty - 15/10/07

Montenegro gets boost for EU bid - 15/10/07

Gordon Brown will sell us out to Brussels again - 17/10/07 on the Today programme yesterday, David Miliband was obliged to tell a series of whoppers

David Miliband demands apology from senior Labour MP for Hitler jibe - 17/10/07 the Labour MP went on to insist that Miliband was being evasive about what were obviously major constitutional changes

Cameron to Brown: No-one will trust you again - 17/10/07

Brown heading to EU treaty summit - 17/10/07

Gordon Brown rules out EU Treaty vote - 18/10/07 as the Telegraph delivers a petition of more than 108,000 signatures to Downing Street demanding a national referendum on the EU Reform Treaty

No more treaty demands, UK warned - 18/10/07

EU leaders agree new treaty deal - 19/10/07

Gordon Brown boasts EU deal a 'great success' - 21/10/07

Giscard: EU Treaty is the constitution rewritten - 30/10/07 Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the abandoned European Constitution, has admitted that the document has been rewritten by EU leaders in a different order just to avoid the need for referendums. So Brown and Miliband were lying (we already knew that)

Few Irish back EU treaty in poll - 05/11/07

EU accounts failed for 13th year - 13/11/07 The auditors for the EU have refused to sign off the bloc's financial accounts - for the 13th year in a row

Fish dumping 'will ruin industry' - 20/11/07 EU quotas result in thousands of tonnes of dead fish being dumped back into the sea

Denmark planning new vote on euro - 22/11/07 Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the people should have the opportunity to take a stance on the Danish EU opt-outs. In other words, have the opportunity to give up the right to take a stance!

EU may scrap 'Made in Britain' labels - 22/11/07

EU leaders sign landmark treaty - 13/12/07

Hague raises EU referendum stakes - 13/12/07

For Whom the Bell Tolls - 14/12/07 the Lisbon Treaty is not the birth certificate of a new Europe. It is a rehash of the constitution that was rejected by the French and Dutch electorates two years ago. The bell will toll for the independence and democracy of Europe's ancient nation states if the Lisbon Treaty becomes law

Peter Mandelson laments PM's 'EU dithering' - 15/12/07

Worries as EU's Schengen borders expand east - 16/12/07

Illegal immigrants ready at EU's new border - 16/12/07

Protests mark EU fish quota talks - 17/12/07

Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro - 01/01/08

Cameron pledge on EU treaty poll - 13/01/08

Tony Blair 'cannot be president of EU' - 18/01/08

EU treaty 'same as constitution' - 20/01/08 The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said foreign policy in the treaty was the same as in the constitution, on which Labour promised a referendum

EU far-right groups to form party - 25/01/08

UK's treaty 'safeguards' attacked - 06/02/08

Labour MPs' referendum fight vow - 08/02/08

French parliament backs EU treaty - 08/02/08

Polls say 88% want EU referendum - 02/03/08

After this, we can't believe a word you say, Gordon Brown - 09/03/08

Faking it, 50 years of EU �democracy� - 12/03/08

Bus passengers in EU law 'farce' - 25/03/08

EU membership to cost an extra £1bn - 29/03/08

Ireland's referendum - Leaked memo to British Government exposes Irish Government conniving with foreign governments to deceive the Irish electorate - 14/04/08

Fresh jump in eurozone inflation - 16/04/08

Euro shows signs of end to bull run - 01/05/08

A 'George Washington' for Europe - 01/05/08

Court challenge to EU referendum - 02/05/08

Peter Mandelson fuels Irish anger over EU treaty - 12/05/08

European Parliament to ban Eurosceptic groups - 27/05/08 Welcome to your future

MEPs to strip Eurosceptics of cash and influence - 27/05/08

Irish referendum could scupper EU treaty - 31/05/08

Ireland rejects EU reform treaty - 13/06/08 I take back everything I ever said about them

EU grapples with Irish 'No' vote - 14/06/08

France refuses EU treaty revision - 17/06/08

Czech threat looms for EU treaty - 20/06/08

EU warned: No treaty, no growth - 20/06/08

EU rules ban sale of 'too small' kiwis - 26/06/08

Warning as France takes EU helm - 01/07/08

Eurozone rates increase to 4.25% - 03/07/08

Sarkozy denies pressurising Irish - 21/07/08

Fresh record for euro inflation - 31/07/08

Italy ratifies EU Lisbon Treaty - 31/07/08

Lib Dems cool on euro entry date - 16/09/08

Motorists risk fine for union flag - 23/10/08

Nicolas Sarkozy under attack after EU president proposal - 25/10/08

Eurozone officially in recession - 14/11/08

EU membership cost to British taxpayers will treble to more than £6 billion, Treasury says - 02/12/08

Mandelson rejects euro talk claim - 03/12/08

Irish ready to hold new EU vote - 11/12/08

Czech PM raises new Lisbon hurdle - 19/12/08

Eurosceptic becomes EU President - 27/12/08

Slovakia joins eurozone in new year - 30/12/08

Most Britons 'still oppose euro' - 01/01/09 71% of people would vote against Britain joining the euro if it were put to a referendum

EU's new figurehead believes climate change is a myth - 02/01/09

Germany sees higher jobless total - 07/01/09

Monetary union has left half of Europe trapped in depression - 18/01/09 By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: EMU-land has become a Völker-Kerker � a "prison of nations", to borrow from the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Czech leader scorns EU politics - 19/02/09

Foreign students leaving UK debts - 26/02/09

Eurozone jobless queues lengthen - 27/02/09

EU membership costs each Briton £2,000 a year, Taxpayers' Alliance claims - 08/03/09

Tories leaving Europe's EPP group - 11/03/09

An internet sensation, the Tory who told Brown to his face that he's a disaster - 23/03/09 More than 730,000 users have viewed it on YouTube, making it the most popular clip on the site two days in a row. The BBC failed to report Mr Hannan's onslaught despite giving full coverage to Mr Brown's most pro-European speech to date. FR Comments

EU aid designated for environment 'used to buy Ferrari' - 02/04/09

BNP 'threat' to Labour in Europe - 10/04/09 Labour is using the slogan "fairness not fear" - but what they really mean is "bureaucracy not democracy"

In search of Europe: France - 04/05/09

Viewpoint: A truly European vote? - 05/05/09

Europe opens big election debate - 11/05/09

Eurozone economies contract 2.5% - 15/05/09 About 60% of the UK's exports go to the 27 countries in the EU

EU begins fisheries policy review - 25/05/09

Britain will 'obviously' join euro says Mandelson - 11/06/09 a fitting aspiration for a clinical psychopath

Pound hits 2009 high against euro - 11/06/09

Crops under stress as temperatures fall - 13/06/09

EU agrees Irish treaty compromise - 19/06/09

Euro parliament elects new leader - 14/07/09

Eurozone jobless at 10-year high - 31/07/09

Icelanders go chilly on EU membership 04/08/09

New Czech move to block EU treaty - 29/09/09

Barroso raises pressure on Czechs - 13/10/09

German party cool on Blair for EU - 28/10/09

Blow to Blair's hope of EU post - 30/10/09

Eurozone jobless worst since 1999 - 30/10/09

EU reform treaty passes last test - 03/11/09

If the UK left the EU what would the consequences be? - 16/11/09 55% of those asked in recent British opinion polls say they would support leaving the European Union. But it's hardly ever discussed in polite political society

Profile: First EU President Herman van Rompuy - 20/11/09

EU foreign head dismisses critics - 20/11/09

European Union gives Nigeria $1bn 'for peace' - 20/11/09 Europe falls for the Nigerian scam

Town's last fisherman driven out of business by EU rules - 13/12/09

EU adopts bigger budget for 2010 - 17/12/09 the bloat increases by 6% to €123bn

The rise of Germany belies the chaos a strong euro is causing - 21/12/09

Eurozone unemployment reaches 10% - 08/01/10

Britain and the EU: time for a divorce - 22/01/10

Eurozone unemployment rate hits 10% - 29/01/10

Van Rompuy moves EU summit to Belgian library - 03/02/10

EU to police Greek accounts - 03/02/10 How about policing Turkish human rights?

Fear that shadows the euro - 08/02/10 Gerard Lyons, economist at Standard Chartered: "For monetary union to survive, it has to become political union"

Portugal 'will not' quit the euro - 09/02/10

The 27 mediocrities who will rule Europe - 09/02/10 the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for an underwhelming European Commission

Europe's PIGS: Country by country - 11/02/10 Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain

German economic recovery falters in Q4 - 12/02/10 the eurozone economy grew 0.1% in the same quarter

Germany growls as Greece balks at immolation - 14/02/10 Germany's Bundestag has drafted an opinion deeming aid to Greece illegal

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