Via RTÉ Justice and interior ministers of the European Union are to discuss a framework for talks on reviving the EU Constitution during three days of talks in Germany which are due to begin later today. The talks in Dresden are the first major ministerial gathering of the new EU of 27 states. Germany, which holds the rotating presidency of the union, has asked member states to nominate interlocutors for consideration of each country’s position on the Constitution. The...
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Ryanair loses! about time
Everything we hear these days tends to be positive about Ryanair (profits etc) bar what what we experience ourselves with them! Wild Geese and Blow Ins have an excellent post on the bad news for Ryanair. which involves this website ryanaircampaign.org . I do have had my own hassles with Ryanair when i went to Germany with the 5th Lough Scouts back in he Summer of ’05. But we got over it, our pockets didn’t.
German Presidency Ready to roll!
With the Finns, finishing up with the Presidency of the European Council, Germany is gearing up to hold the presidency. Their website www.eu2007.de is ready to roll in 3 languages, German, French and English. Germany hopes to bring the Constitution back on to the agenda. This Presidency sees a new Troika system being introduced which will see Germany working very closely with Portugal and Slovenia, the next two members to hold the Presidency. This will ensure continuity in European...
Excellent Priest!
GERMANY: Officials of Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) have filed charges against a Bavarian priest who rang his church bells to drown out their speeches at a rally last July. Fr Ulrich Boom was so incensed that the NPD was allowed to demonstrate in his tiny town of Miltenberg that he decided to fight back with his six church bells, the heaviest of which – the Mother of God bell – weighs 4,415kg. As the first NPD officials...
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