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Eurocrats start search for cushy 'parachutes' into new jobs
As the European Commission starts the final lap of its mandate, many senior officials have one thing on their mind - their next job – reports Justin StaresMost British people 'would vote to leave EU' - says Tory MEP
Some 80 per cent of British citizens now want a vote on membership of the EU and the majority would opt to leave the union, claims David Campbell Bannerman MEP
Gangs, drugs, sex and violence - the pressures on young people
Despite the overall drop in UK crime rates, the British youth in inner city neighbourhoods still have to live within a landscape of violence, drugs and sexual harassment – writes Jenny Parkes
'Flawed' EU banking union will actually encourage bad behaviour
Kenneth Haar examines why it is that the big banks are happy with the banking union and why citizens should not view it as an antidote to costly bail-outsIs the EU using Latin words to hide its illegality?
Lawyers in the institutions of the EU tell you in private that the union is working on the edge of illegality. And use of Latin in the Brussels lexicon means several meanings can be conveyed to different parties at once – writes writes our secret columnist in BrusselsBrits should recognise the value in being 'citizens of Europe'
If you are a UK citizen confused about the value of EU membership, due to the 'untruths' coming from UKIP and the national press, then just follow the evidence – says former BBC journalist Jon DanzigEU-US free trade deal could 'spread western norms' across world
A free trade agreement between the EU and the US could help to spread western norms across the world in an 'Atlantic century', claims senior American diplomat-
UK now a 'spectator' watching Europe from the sidelines
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Eurozone recession drags into sixth quarter
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British Tories simply trying to be 'more UKIP than UKIP'
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First citizens' initiative puts water on EU agenda
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It is 'never going to be possible' to repatriate EU powers to UK
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Remembering Thatcher's famous Bruges speech
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EU economic warnings target Spain and Slovenia
Should an independent cost-benefits study into Britain's membership of the EU be commissioned to elevate the 'in/out' debate above scaremongering?
Is the criticism of Catherine Ashton fair given that the European External Action Service has been denuded of power by the institutional turf wars in Brussels?
yes
70%
no
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