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A Diary of Headlines from The European Movement and Britain in Europe

13th July 2001:

• Warning of ‘Meltdown’ if Britain does not join the single currency

• Anti-Europeans would damage inward investment

• Car prices will fall as EU scraps dealership rules

20th July 2001:

• Minister calls on the media for a proper debate about Europe

• Support for single currency rises

• Anti-European scare tactics exposed again

27th July 2001:

• British car prices would be cheaper in the euro

• Government makes case for Britain to lead in Europe

• UK “between rock and hard place” because of currency volatility
• European Commission launches Governance proposals

3rd August 2001

• Anti-Europeans’ ‘bogus’ conversion cost figures revealed

• Blair: Europe needs to continue reform

• Macmillan: Europe is about much more than free trade

10th August 2001:

• Strength of sterling contributes to British manufacturing recession

• BMW chief warns about euro isolation

• Euro-zone exclusion adds to Foot and Mouth misery for British tourism
  

17th August 2001:

• Tourism jobs face more
• Sterling's volatility outside the euro costs 3,500 jobs a month
• Euro countdown for British holidaymakers

24th August 2001:

• Anti-euro chief backs Iain Duncan Smith
• ‘No one more Europhobic than Iain Duncan Smith’
• Major and Heseltine support Clarke
• British workers work longest in Europe

31st August 2001:

• Peter Hain: Minister says euro decision cannot be postponed forever

• Major UK employers support euro
• More British shops to take euro
• Euro notes and coins unveiled

7th September 2001:

• Business warned of dangers of rejecting currency
• Business told of possibilities single currency could bring
• More desperate stunts from the ‘No’ campaign

21st Septemeber 2001:

• Terrorist attacks are a challenge for Europe
• Shadow Cabinet shows its extremist credentials
• 100 days until the euro becomes a reality
• France told to accept British beef by EU court
• Squabbling in the ‘No’ lobby

28th September 2001:

• More retailers come out for the euro
• Europe: “The great patriotic cause of our age”
• Liberal Democrat conference: “Out of the euro, Britain is losing out”
• Veteran campaigner, Lord Shore of Stepney, died

5th October 2001:

• Blair: Government must have ‘courage of arguments’
• British euro use to be extensive by 2010
• Ethnic Minorities in Europe Launched
• Council threaten action after UKIP ‘dupe’ print firm
• Lights go out on ‘No’ campaign

12th October 2001:

• Support for the euro grows amongst business
• British tourist industry ready for euro cash
• Tory MP warns of costs of costs of staying out of euro
• ‘No’ campaign admits failure...
• ...and shows its true colours.

For more information and the full details of the above stories, please e-mail Chris Bradley.

News: The Democracy Movement

In comparison to the European Movement and their allies, Britain in Europe, the Democracy Movement appears much quieter on the email news' front.

There is no doubt that everyone, and particularly those who knew Lord Shore of Stepney from both sides of the debate, were saddened by his loss; the loss of someone who tirelessly campaigned for his Eurosceptical beliefs. He will be missed by all on the campaign trail.

6th August 2001:

• Kahn: In The Footsteps of Goldsmith

Extract from The Times

JEMIMA KHAN is following in the footsteps of her late father, Sir James Goldsmith, by continuing to support his Save the Pound campaign.

The wife of Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician, has decided to take a more prominent role in the family’s multimillion-pound crusade against European federalism. Ms Khan, 27, who moved to Islamabad in 1995, hosted a £50-a-head dinner for the Democracy Movement to raise money for the anti-euro campaign. The curry supper was attended by more than 200 people and raised thousands of pounds.

26th September 2001:

• The memory of Peter Shore will never die, Jens-Peter Bonde

" I wrote an invitation for Lord Peter Shore to speak at the SOS Democracy counter summit rally on 14th December in Brussels. He died before he got the invitation, but he will be with us when we meet.

His memory will never die among European eurosceptics or eurorealists or simply European democrats, which is how we characterised our common views in our last conversations in a tent at Trafalgar Square where both of us spoke in a rally with 10,000 persons and almost 10,000 umbrellas. (And no press coverage)...."

27th September 2001:

• Lord Shore - A Tribute

"We have all been saddened to hear yesterday of the death of Lord Shore. A staunch democrat and doyen of the Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign, Lord Shore was a close friend of our Movement. He spoke on many of our platforms throughout the country, in particular in our debate against Europe minister Keith Vaz at the Commonwealth Institute last summer.

He was the final speaker at our rally in Trafalgar Square last October where he overcame gathering infirmity to make a stirring oration that will always be remebered by those who heard it. Lord Shore told his surgeon before his operation in July that he needed to be kept alive to "fight the Nice Treaty" which finishes its parliamentary passage this autumn."

• Anti-Niece Treaty Rally Planned for 17th October 2001

The Lords Ratify Nice Treaty

Stuart Coster comments:

Now the Lords is stuffed with Tony's cronies there's not much chance of Nice being stopped there I'm afraid. While the legal apparatus for Nice to take effect in Britain will more than likely soon be in place, the treaty cannot officially take force until every EU member has ratified it. So the only chance to stop Nice now is for the Irish to ignore the bullying tactics of Tony Blair and other EU governments and reject the treaty a second time in the repeat referendum they're bound to get probably sometime next year. We can only hope that the EU will then take seriously the democratic views of the Irish people. A vote that is only allowed to have one result, repeated until it is achieved, is not democracy.

From his Email, received on 5th November 2001. More rallies planned adds Mr. Coster.

For more information and news, please e-mail Stuart Coster.