Articles tagged ‘European Union’
European Union throws in the towel over making Britain metric
By Chris | September 11th, 2007 |
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The European Union looks like its given up on its decades old campaign to get Britain to completely adopt the metric system. The EU seems to have been on a mission to change Britain’s way of calculating things but it looks as though visitors will find a combined weights and measures system for many years [...]
Trans-Atlantic flights could be about to get cheaper
By Chris | March 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The European Union and the United States have reached agreement on the Open Skies airline policy that will open up routes across the Atlantic to competition from all airlines. The agreement which got the unanimous backing of the 25 EU transport ministers means that any EU based airline can fly from any airport in the [...]
The EU, good or bad for the UK?
By Chris | March 21st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
As the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome that created the EEC, the forerunner of the European Union, approaches, the Europhile Independent newspaper has a feature entitled (Monty Python style), ‘So, what has Europe ever done for us? Apart from..’ and goes on to list 50 things it thinks the EU has done to [...]
London Festival of Europe
By Chris | March 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The London Festival of Europe is an event running from 19-31 March that is organised by a cultural group called European Alterities which brings together philosphers, artists and political thinkers to look at the future of Europe, 50 years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome in March 1957 which created the European Economic [...]
Fat bottom girls all the rage in England
By Chris | February 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Britain now officially has the most lard buckets in Europe. The European Union has released their Eurostat yearbook for 2007 with the breakdown of the latest data on everything from health, population and leisure to industry and energy use in the 27 EU countries.
One of the sections picked up by a lot of the [...]
UK Visa requirements
By Chris | October 9th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Like most nations the UK has different visa rules for nationals of various countries. Citizens of any of the European Union countries need a valid passport but not a visa to enter the UK, and are allowed to live and work here.
