Tag: EU
City banks ‘cheat’ Europe in €600m tax avoidance trading scheme
By Nick Mathiason Some of the city of London’s biggest banks are behind a huge tax avoidance trade ‘cheating’ European countries of hundreds of...
Independent Scotland ‘too weak and too small’ for EU claims Lib...
By G.A.Ponsonby A Scottish Lib Dem MEP has sparked anger after claiming that an independent Scotland would be an "irrelevance in Europe" and would...
Scottish and Welsh First Ministers demand EU meeting with David Cameron
By a Newsnet reporter Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond and Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones have demanded talks with UK PM David Cameron over...
Cameron’s EU isolation has ‘strengthened independence hand’ claims Welsh FM
By a Newsnet reporter The Welsh First Minister, Labour’s Carwyn Jones, has claimed that David Cameron’s decision to walk out of talks on the...
EU prepares to unfreeze Libyan assets
The European Union's foreign policy chief has announced that the 27-nation bloc is preparing to release Libyan assets as soon as the United Nations...
The Spectre Haunting Europe
by Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson Debt Defaults, Austerity, and Death of the “Social Europe” Model A spectre is haunting Europe: the illusion...
EU students flock to Scottish universities
A record number of EU students have enrolled at Scotland's universities, up 17 per cent last year new statistics revealed today as Education Secretary...
Skippers offered discard reduction plan
Following the agreement to expand Scotland's catch quota scheme at last week's EU-Norway talks, Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead has written to all eligible Scottish...
EU Experts attend Edinburgh Rural Fair
Rural Scotland demonstrated its merits on an international stage today with the opening of the 2010 EU Rural Cooperation Fair at Murrayfield Stadium in...