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War: The roots of European union
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Branson's Warnings Ignore Record Foreign Investment
The UK has attracted record inward investment from abroad, creating 52,783 jobs and 757 new projects from 30 countries. Yet Virgin's chairman Richard Branson warns Britain of pending economic disaster, if Prime Minister Tony Blair does not act now and lead the pro-euro campaign. Eurosceptics, such as campaign director Marc Glendening of the Democracy Movement, smell a rat. They claim that the timing points, with two recent leaks only a few days apart, to a
"campaign by stealth."Denmark: A Free Or Euro Dependent Nation?
In September 2000 the Danish people will vote in a referendum on the single currency, the euro. Opinion polls in April showed both sides level-pegging. This is the Danes' first opportunity to present their opinions on Europe since the controversial Maastricht referendum in 1992. Jens-Peter Bonde MEP of the June Movement and Anders Panum Jensen of the Danish European Movement contemplate the result and its effects on Denmark's place in Europe and the world.UK "is suffering" says ECB Chief
Comments by European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, suggesting that Britain is suffering outside of the euro, have been rejected by Business for Sterling. The Eurosceptic group's chief executive Nick Herbert said that the UK "has the lowest unemployment for twenty years and record inward investment, more than any country in the Eurozone." Yet the Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking on the BBC's Question Time, still maintains that the euro is right for Britain.
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Blair Fails To Cover Cracks on Euro
The cracks of the Cabinet's euro policy continue to wreak havoc for Tony Blair, even though the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown attempts to dampen their effect. The feud over the Government's "prepare and decide" euro strategy, officially denied, is overshadowing the Government's successes involving the EU's controversial withholding tax at the recent summit in Portugal. Cabinet At "Civil War" While Opposition
to Euro Hits A High
As the Government's crisis continues, and as opposition to the euro hits a new high, political commentators suggest that the Cabinet's rift is over more than just the single European currency. In The Guardian on 26th June 2000, Peter Preston argued that this would normally lead to a cabinet reshuffle. He believes that leading Cabinet ministers are jostling for influence.[About EuroPolls]
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