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 It is of note that
Hungary has historical form in raising rebellions – though
regrettably less so in their ultimate success. But as the EU once again seeks
to turn
its institutional architecture towards ever-closer political union we may see
how
far, and with how much support, bold Magyar outriders for an EU of
cooperating,
independent nation states can upset federalist plans
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 This paper by
the foreign policy expert Andrey Karbovskiy, Ph.D., examines the issue of the
EU’s enlargement towards Eastern Europe and the political factors which have
influenced the EU’s policy towards the independent nations that were once part
of the Soviet Union. The EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy will be examined
and in particular the European Union’s Eastern Partnership
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 The Bruges Group,
which takes a special interest in Estonia and supported the “no” campaign in
the 2003 accession referendum with human and financial resources, greatly
regrets that Estonia will adopt the euro on 1st January 2011. This is without
a referendum and is being done with total disregard for the desires of the
people and in the absence of any democratic consultation
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 Václav Klaus, the
President of the Czech Republic, speaking to the Bruges Group. Let us move to
Europe of economic freedom, to Europe of small and non-expanding government,
to Europe without state paternalism, to Europe without pseudomoralizing
political correctness, to Europe without intellectual snobbism and elitism, to
Europe without supranational, all-continental ambitions
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We take no pleasure at all in welcoming the countries that more than ten
years ago courageously defeated Communism into another, though not so
oppressive, supranational, centralised, over-regulated, over-bureaucratised
state
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Internal bun-fights in the EU and an end to the largesse could mean that
there is a parting of the ways, but only if the Conservative Party is bold
enough to divorce the EPP and lead a fight back
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The War on Terror has opened a fundamental division between the
Franco-German axis and the other Europe
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As the European Union's Copenhagen Summit gets underway Dr Helen
Szamuely offers a critique of EU enlargement
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EU Enlargement will not create the flexible Europe that many in the
Conservative Party hope for but instead it will mean that the European Union
will only become more centralised.
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The EU has missed an historic opportunity to help those countries that have
only just become liberated from the Soviet sphere of influence.
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