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Farm alarm |
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11 August 2008 |
Good news at last for the EU budget. The latest Commission anti-fraud report shows the number of cases of suspected farm subsidy irregularities fell dramatically in 2007, to 1,548 from a steady level of around 3,200 in the previous few years, writes Stephen Gardner.
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Show us the money |
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13 June 2008 |
Giles Chichester's resignation from the leadership of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, and the travails of other Tories in Brussels and Strasbourg, has shone a light on how MEPs can manage their expenses, writes Stephen Gardner. Under Parliament rules, MEPs can appoint 'paying agents', who manage the cash they get for office expenses and staff costs – around £35,000 annually for the former, and £135,000 for the latter.
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Food industry has EURRECA moment |
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12 June 2008 |
Metric martyrs looking for a new cause now the British pint is safe might want to turn their attention to Eurocrat meddling in nutrient recommendations, writes Stephen Gardner. These – dealing with consumptions of vitamins and minerals such as fluoride, magnesium and salt – are set in the UK by the Food Standards Agency. But for how much longer?
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Transparent and efficient |
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30 May 2008 |
 The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is expected to save consumers and businesses €50-100 billion a year, but some countries have been slow in implementing the initiative. While barriers towards SEPA still remain, Charles McCreevy, EU Commissioner for internal market and services, says that the benefits of SEPA are already apparent and that the creation of a level playing field in the eurozone is on track. Jon Eldridge interviews Charlie McCreevy.
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Welsh MEPs dodge expenses questions |
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14 May 2008 |
Welsh MEPs are reluctant to give any details about their earnings or how they spend the monies received from the European Parliament, Dafydd ab Iago has found in an investigation for Welsh monthly Barn. Dafydd asked how much the MEPs earned from the EP, how much did they spend on their assistants and how much did they receive in expenses, but he received no straight answers.
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ePassports alert |
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09 May 2008 |
Some rather alarming new research has raised questions about biometric passports, which are issued in the EU according to a standard template set out by the European Commission in 2004, writes Stephen Gardner. The passports hold personal data in radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, which send out wireless signals across short distances.
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