http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/355902/Now-EU-wants-20-VAT-on-new-houses

Only about 130,000 homes were built across Britain last year – a historic low

An EU plan to slap VAT on new homes will send prices soaring, experts warned yesterday.

Brussels has quietly issued a con­sultation document that proposes scrapping the current zero VAT
rating.

The move to charge the full 20 per cent is part of a plan to standardise tax rates across Europe. It
would drive up the average price of a new home by £48,000 from £238,000 to £286,000 and have a
catastrophic impact on the UK.

The huge increase would price people out of the market, make it even more difficult to get a
mortgage and bring the building industry to its knees.

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/356574/Crooked-EU-wastes-89bn-in-one-year

BRUSSELS bureaucrats wasted billions of pounds through fraud and blunders
last year, the European Union’s own spending watchdogs revealed last night.

Official auditors raised questions over a colossal £89billion of spending
during 2011. And for the 18th year in a row, they refused to sign off the
EU’s annual accounts.

The damning verdict brought new fury at the soaring EU budget and added to
the pressure on David Cameron to block a further massive hike.

He faces tense talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today over the
rising bill for Brussels ahead of a crunch summit on the issue later this
month.

In yesterday’s report, the European Court of Auditors admitted there were
“too many cases of EU money not hitting the target or being used
sub-optimally”.

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Angela Merkel went to Greece and was stopped at immigration.

“Name?” Said the immigration Officer

“Angela Merkel”

“Nationality?”

“German”

“Occupation?”

“No I am only staying for a couple of days!”

Don’t sell jam in re-used jars… by order of Europe: Tradition of selling home-made preserves ‘breaches health and safety rules’

What about milk bottles? Surely not to reuse them will be in conflict with the EU recycling edict?

Churches warn parishioners to stop selling preserves in re-used jars. The tradition, enjoyed by the WI, breaches EU health and safety laws

They are the backbone of church fetes, village fairs and jumble sales
all around the country.

But the thousands who regularly sell their home-made jam, marmalade or
chutney in re-used jars may have to abandon their traditions after a warning
that they are breaching European health and safety regulations.

Legal advisers to Britain’s Churches have sent out a circular saying that
while people can use jars for jam at home or to give to family and friends,
they cannot sell them or even give them away as raffle prizes at a public
event.
Glass warfare: The Women’s Institute is warning its 210,000 members about
the European regulations Take note: The written circular from the Churches’
Legislation Advisory Service

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A   The EU’s role in our financial crisis
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 05/10/2008

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A   The EU’s role in our financial crisis
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 05/10/2008

As the Western world’s banking system teeters on the edge of collapse, one
crucial factor in this unprecedented crisis has gone almost entirely unnoticed –
although David Cameron made a veiled reference to it on Tuesday.

At the heart of this catastrophe lies a drastic change made last year to banking
regulations, which has led to the current freezing of the money markets. Without
it, most of the banks that have collapsed, such as Lehman Brothers, might have
survived.

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