Great way to spend an evening. Last night over dinner I started reading this report, or at least the Executive Summary. I feared that the other seventy pages of detail and statistics might have impinged on my digestion. I note that the work was conducted by BiGGAR Economics for [...]
Continue Reading →And before you ask “Does the Prime Minister need your advice, Helmer?”, let me say – he certainly needs advice from somewhere, so let’s start here.
Benedict Brogan in the Telegraph points to the short-lived surge in Tory fortunes when Cameron dramatically announced his EU veto – even if it was eventually overtaken [...]
Continue Reading →Forgive me for returning to Prof Vahrenholt, but he was the keynote speaker at the Union Pétrolière Européenne Indépendante (UPEI) 50th Anniversary Conference in Brussels yesterday.
Just to recap: Prof Vahrenholt has a degree in Chemistry from Münster, and spent his early career in the federal Umweltbundesamt (environmental protection agency) in Berlin and [...]
Continue Reading →The Brussels institutions seem to have an unlimited capacity for self-delusion.
We’ve had “subsidiarity”, which is supposed to mean devolving decision-making in the EU to the lowest possible level — while in reality the minutiae of our every-day lives are controlled in ever more detail from Brussels. I’ve been in the European parliament for [...]
Continue Reading →Believe it or not, the European Parliament is debating a report on Women’s Rights and Climate Change — thus bringing together two of the institution’s pet obsessions. My first reaction was astonishment at the absurdity of the linkage. But I was even more astonished, on Googling the idea, to find that there’s a whole [...]
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