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	<title>The TaxPayers&#039; Alliance &#187; European Union</title>
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		<title>The European Commission needs less money, not more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask a council leader or government bureaucrat about the need to cut spending and chances are they will at least acknowledge that money is tight and that budgets have to be reined in. They may sometimes act like money grows on trees but there is at least now a weary acceptance by politicians from all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2012/04/european-commission-money.html</link>
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		<title>Will we ever see an end to the £150 million EU travelling circus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” said Benjamin Franklin 200 years ago. Had Franklin been alive today I wonder if the European Union’s ability to waste taxpayers’ money would have featured as one of life’s certainties. The EU is not only famous for wasting money but also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2012/04/150-million-eu-travelling-circus.html</link>
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		<title>Taxpayers Association of Europe attack European Stability Mechanism proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Taxpayers Association of Europe is an umbrella organisation for twenty-nine national taxpayer associations &#8211; including the TaxPayers&#8217; Alliance.  Yesterday the organisation put out a furious new release calling on &#8220;national governments to refuse the creation of an ESM&#8221; as it involves &#8220;incalculable risks for taxpayers&#8221;.  It is a powerful reminder of the stakes on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2012/02/taxpayers-association-europe-attack-european-stability-mechanism-proposals.html</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the £40+ million EU funhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if the £15 million Parliamentarium (the propaganda temple Jonathan Isaby wrote about last October) wasn’t enough for the Brussels elite to spend on peddling &#8216;ever closer union&#8217; to the public, plans are in motion to build an even more expensive &#8220;House of European History&#8221;. Showing that the propaganda temple was merely a warm up, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2012/01/40-million-eu-funhouse.html</link>
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		<title>Other European countries do enjoy a better relationship with the EU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Warner writes for the Telegraph this morning, arguing that Britain is unlikely to get impressive results out of any renegotiation associated with the EU treaty.  He is right that a lot of the minor changes we&#8217;ve heard rumours about would be welcome but, in the grand scheme of things, &#8220;don’t add up to more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/11/european-countries-enjoy-relationship-eu.html</link>
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		<title>The EU’s accounts are not signed off… again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin once observed that &#8220;In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.&#8221; I would venture that we could add a third: the inability of the European Union to guarantee that it has legitimately spent all of the taxpayers’ cash which the British and other EU member state governments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/11/eus-accounts-signed.html</link>
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		<title>Fiscal union won&#8217;t save the eurozone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After extensive negotiations, European leaders have now announced another desperate attempt to save the euro and tackle the sovereign debt crisis. Allister Heath in City AM describes the packages as &#8220;barely a draft blueprint&#8221; and &#8220;not a plan that will save the Eurozone&#8221;. George Osborne has joined eurozone politicians in their belief that the answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/10/fiscal-union-save-eurozone.html</link>
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		<title>Further EU waste exposed ahead of Commons referendum vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disappointing but not surprising news from Brussels has revealed a discrepancy of over £80 million in expense claims for European Union bureaucrats in 2006 alone. Robert Galvin, a British accountant who looked over the EU’s books, found a discrepancy of £81 million in “personal entitlement” payments to EU civil servants in 2006, and saw there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/10/eu-waste-exposed-eve-commons-referendum-vote.html</link>
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		<title>Deferendum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the House of Commons will be having a debate over holding a referendum on Britain’s future in the EU. It may help to put this into context. The last time people in the United Kingdom were given a real choice on Europe was in 1975.  In that year, the Wilson Government lived up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/10/deferendum.html</link>
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		<title>EU debate announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the start of the month we held a joint debate with the Daily Express about Britain’s relationship with the European Union. Aptly titled “We need to talk about Europe”, the point was made time and time again that discussion about Europe was being stifled despite the fact that it is an issue so many people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2011/10/eu-debate-announced.html</link>
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