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• Can hackers have a disease and be absolved from a crime? Maybe...

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 130
  The Home Ministers of various departments in the U.K. are practically falling over themselves in the Gary McKinnon extradition case. More troubling is that it appears that the basic issue of a crime being committed is now completely overshadowed by the actual events that have taken place since the U.S. Department of ...
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• Who are the new Commissioners in Barroso II?

  
  Oxfordprospect.co.uk - Oxford News — Authority: 132
  Who are the new Commissioners in Barroso II?The new College of Commissioners to take office in 2010 has been announced. This document sets out who they are, which job they will get and what their new responsibilities will be. Fifteen of the 27 Commissioners-designate come back for a second or third term in the ...
  8 hours ago

• East Europeans foolish to kick up fuss over Ashton’s CND past

  
  Brussels Blog — Authority: 547
  As of today the European Union is going about its business under a new set of rules known as the Lisbon treaty.  In Brussels this is universally seen as a good thing because, to quote Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-presidents of the European Parliament’s Greens faction, the treaty “sets the framework ...
  17 hours ago

• After 8 years, EU reform comes into force

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Brussels, Dec 1 (DPA) After eight years of rows and soul-searching, the European Union finally managed to reform itself Tuesday as the Lisbon Treaty entered into force.The treaty is meant to make the bloc more transparent and efficient at home and give it greater clout abroad, but it has proved deeply unpopular with ...
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• Mussolinis granddaughter dismisses "sex video" claim

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . Rome - Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Fascist dictator Benito, said Friday she did not know whether to be angry or to laugh, at reports that a newspaper has been offered a video allegedly showing her having sex with the leader of a tiny extreme- right wing party. Mussolini, a parliamentarian for ...
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• EU to introduce tyre efficiency ratings

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 437
  From November 1, 2012, replacement tyres for cars, light- and heavy duty vehicles will be required to carry energy efficiency labels. The regulations were approved by members of the European Parliament last week with the labels expected to follow the familiar “A to G” classification system that is used on ...
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• European Parliament announces new President and Foreign Affairs Minister

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 130
  After months of political maneuvering and negotiation amongst European Union members, the choices for President and Foreign Affairs Minister (High Representative) have been announced.
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• Leading BNP member quits Cumbria party

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . Barbour with Griffin One of the leading lights in the British National Party in Cumbria has quit saying he is sick of defending them. Alistair Barbour, 44, of Southwaite, was expected to be the BNP’s General Election candidate in Carlisle. He says he has become disillusioned with party politics and ...
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• Coverage on GEO TV: Europe & Islam – whose identity crisis?

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 121
  Following on from the debate in the european Parliament a few weeks ago, some footage from GEO TV based in Pakistan (be warned, it’s in Urdu): more about “A Debate in European Parliament on Eu…“, posted with vodpod  Tagged: British Council, Brussels, Europe, Europe & Islam: whose identity crisis?, ...
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• Viviane Redings European Union reign ends

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  For any European service provider the mere mention of the EUs telecom watchdog Viviane Reding brought chills down their spine. However, the Reding reign has now come to an end as it was announced on Friday that she will step down from her current post as Information Society Commissioner to now oversee Justice, ...
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• BNP leader Nick Griffin threatens to expose dodgy science when he represents Europe at climate change summit

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 523
  BNP leader Nick Griffin has sparked outrage after it emerged that he is to represent the European parliament at next weeks climate change summit in Copenhagen Mr Griffin has vowed to use his place on the delegation to expose the ‘somewhat dodgy’ science behind the climate change movement. The far-right leader ...
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• European Parliament: New sloth habitat?

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 433
  There was not very much the institutions of the European Union could do, when the Lisbon Treaty agreed by the EU member states went on its ratification tour of 27 capitals, but once it became clear that the amending treaty finally enters into force, all the institutions have a responsibility to get the EU up and ...
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• Nick Griffin stands alone over dodgy climate change science

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . The British National party says its leader Nick Griffin, who denies the existence of global warming, will "be the only politician prepared to say that the science is somewhat dodgy" when joins a European parliament delegation to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. The BNP said: "It is a global ...
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• I fear there will be no Buttiglione in 2009

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 523
  Rocco Buttiglione - CC / Flickr Back in the autumn of 2004 I was working in London. It was a year or so before I even started this blog and I was working as a civil servant on EU energy policy. News reached us that a controversial Italian nominee to the European Commission, Rocco Buttiglione , had caused a fuss in ...
  2 days ago

• Climate Change – British National Party Environment Policy

  
  Cllr. Martyn Findley (BNP) — Authority: 128
  I could not help but smile when I saw the front page of today’s Observer newspaper while picking up diesel at a local garage. “Climate change denier Nick Griffin to represent EU at Copenhagen”, screams the headline. I had to have a quick read.  Not wishing to encourage the newspaper proprietors who ...
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• British angry at far-right leader’s choice for climate summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 29 (IANS) Politicians and scientists have expressed outrage after the leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP) was selected to represent the European Parliament at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen next week.Nick Griffin, who last week described climate change campaigners as “cranks”, ...
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• Green or True Blue? How environmental are the Conservatives?

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 142
  Tory MEPs attempted to scupper the EU’s Copenhagen position of climate change aid for developing countries, according to Lib Dem South West MEP Graham Watson . In the European Parliament they tabled amendments which would have removed the EU-wide commitment of ‘new and additional’ funding for developing ...
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• Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to tell EU: ‘Less meat means less heat’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov.29 (ANI): Former Beatle Paul McCartney has said that he will interrupt his European concert tour to tell world leaders how eating less meat can lead to less heat.Throwing his weight behind a growing campaign to address global warming by reducing the amount of meat we eat, McCartney will fly to Brussels on ...
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• Climate change denier Nick Griffin to represent EU at Copenhagen

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 523
  BNP leader who believes climate change activists are cranks will be member of European parliaments delegation Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, is to represent the European parliament at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, which opens next week. Last night politicians and scientists ...
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• Five-star treat for BNP...and YOU pay

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 523
  Griffin: living like a king at the taxpayers expense Taxpayers will foot the bill for BNP leader Nick Griffin to enjoy a week of five-star treatment at the Copenhagen climate change summit. Griffin, elected to the European Parliament on the back of the MPs expenses scandal, is one of just three British MEPs ...
  3 days ago

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