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Doublespeak in Brussels

December 2, 2012 12:07 | Dennis de Jong

25-11-2012 • Recently we voted at the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg on a report on the European Monetary Union.

Barroso loses the plot

September 24, 2012 10:15 | Dennis de Jong
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Last week it was a case of ‘here we go again’. In a forced attempt to come over as the ‘President of Europe’, Commission President Jose Barroso delivered his ‘State of the Union’ address in Strasbourg. According to Barroso the time has come for a ‘Federation of Nation States’. A banking union, an economic union and a political union must be quickly brought into being.

Leading by example?

May 14, 2012 10:09 | Dennis de Jong
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Last month two developments came together to demonstrate how inconsistent Brussels can sometimes be.

Greetings from Homophobia, where not everyone is welcome

July 13, 2011 9:01 | Dennis de Jong
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Euro-MP Dennis de Jong of the radical left Dutch Socialist Party (SP) has begun a summer ‘post-card’ action against homophobia throughout Europe.

European solidarity

September 28, 2010 22:52 | Dennis de Jong
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September 29th will see  a major demonstration by trade unions in Brussels.

The European Citizens' Initiative Not much of a blow to the 'democratic deficit'

May 12, 2010 21:33 | Dennis de Jong
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Dennis de Jong finds that a much-trumpeted innovation of the Lisbon Treaty falls well short of addressing the European Union's fundamentally undemocratic nature

The trade union movement at European level

March 16, 2010 9:39 | Dennis de Jong
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Since the mid-1980s, Brussels has been associated first and foremost with Europe's neoliberal policies.

Europe and the building industry

February 23, 2010 16:03 | Dennis de Jong
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There is a great deal wrong in the building industry: officially, everyone agrees that there should be equal pay for equal work for all workers, but in practice things aren't quite like that.

SWIFT, SWIFTER, SWIFTEST

February 17, 2010 18:25 | Dennis de Jong
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by Dennis de Jong, member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party of the Netherlands

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