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DELINGPOLE: Donald Trump is Going to Make the European Union History – Breitbart News

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Heres a perfect example in which Trumps prospective newAmbassador to the European Union, Ted Malloch, tells it like it is in an interview with Andrew Neil on the BBCs Daily Politics show.

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Neil asked Malloch why on earth hed want to be Ambassador to the EU.

AN: I mean youre clearly not a great fan of Brussels or these bureaucrats like Juncker.

TM: Well, I had in a previous year a diplomatic post where I helped to bring down the Soviet Union, so maybe theres another union that needs a little taming.

Later, Neil asked Malloch what he thought of thePresident of the EU Commission.

AN: What do you think of Mr Juncker?

TM: Well Mr Juncker was a very adequate mayor of some city in Luxembourg and maybe he should go back and do that again.

Neil laughed like a man who couldnt believe his luck. Politicians are hardly ever this frank on TV politics shows. Diplomats even less so because supposedly its their job to be discreet, smooth things over, not ruffle feathers. As for the EU no one of influence, with the exception of Nigel Farage, has ever talked about it so disparagingly on television.

Yet straight-talking, EU-despising Ted Malloch is the man President Trump has chosen to represent the US in the European Union. And the reason he did this is because, as Malloch was at no pains to hide, President Trump just doesnt like the EU:

TM: He doesnt like an organisation that is supranational, that is unelected where the bureaucrats run amok and that is not frankly a proper democracy.

Theres a revolution going on here and I think even those of us who support Trump and Brexit are being taken aback by the speed of change.

Remember that the European Union was partly the creation of the USA, which saw it as a way of keeping peace in Europe by using France as a counterweight to Germany, with a reluctant Britain as the sensible intermediary. This is why successive US Presidents have colluded to prop up this corrupt, inefficient, anti-democratic institution.

Suddenly, those days are over.

The EU is finished and the new President of the USA is actively speeding its end.

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At 132 words one of the shorter bills in British history the bill was seen as an effort to prevent amendments that could slow its passage.

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‘Secret Law Making’ in the European Union at All-time High – Breitbart News

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According to figuresobtained from the European Parliament by EUobserver, not oneEU bill in 2016 proceeded from its first reading to a full second reading debate, with all disagreements between the EU Council and the European Parliament settled behind closed doors in meetingsbetween small groups of leading MEPs and Council representatives, overseen by the European Commission.

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Vicky Marissen of Pact European Affairs, a Brussels-based consultancy specialising in EU decision-making procedures, described the situation as astonishing, but it is just a continuation of a trend that we have been seeing for quite a while now.

Back in 2004, more than half of all bills proceeded to a second reading, but by 2014 this number had fallen to zero. There were just four in 2015, before last years return to an all-time low. The European Digital Rights (EDRi) campaign has described the trilogue system as a non-democratic, non-accountable and non-transparent process which undermines EU democracy and transparency.

Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has said that trilogues neatly symbolise the waybig business, big banks and Big Bureaucrats have overthrown democracy in the EU.

How the EUs lawmaking process encourages secret deals

European Union lawmaking is unusual in that it is the blocs combined executive and civil service, the wholly un-elected European Commission, which has the sole power to initiatelegislation.

Transparency campaignershave long complained that the Commissions behind-the-scenes decision-making is unduly influenced by corporate vested interests. Aanalysisby Transparency International of 4,318 declared lobby meetings by the top tier of European Commission officials between December 2014 and June 2015, for example, showed that more than 75 per cent were with corporate lobbyists. NGOs accounted for just 8 per cent of meetings, think tanks 4 per cent and local authorities 2 per cent.

Officials from more than 150 obscure committees and working parties then prepare the Commission proposals which come out of these meetings for the EUCouncil to examine. The Council is comprised of ministersfrom the governments of the member-states, but debates and votes on legislative proposals are held behind closed doors.

An element of open scrutiny should come in at the level of the European Parliament level, which can attempt to amend or reject legislation as part of the so-called co-decision process.MEPs vote literally hundreds of times during plenary sessions, usually by a simple show of hands, but, on rare occasions when the Council and Parliament are not in agreement ata bills first reading, legislation can be opened up to a public debate in a second reading.

Without second readings, EUobserver believes that only Well-connected lobbyists or specialised reporters may be able to follow the law-making process.

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4th Enhanced Political Dialogue between the European Union and Vanuatu – EU News

The European Union (EU) and the Republic of Vanuatu held their fourth Political Dialogue in Brussels this week. The meeting was chaired on Vanuatu's side by the Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabismasmas and on the EU side by the European External Action Service's Asia Pacific Managing Director, Gunnar Wiegand. During his visit, the Prime Minister also met President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioners Miguel Arias Caete and Neven Mimica on climate change and development matters respectively.

The Political Dialogue meeting provided an opportunity for both sides to review cooperation between the EU and Vanuatu over the last years and to agree on future perspectives for EU-ACP relations after 2020, recognising the need to replace the current Cotonou Agreement with an ambitious successor that would guide relations between the EU and the Pacific over the coming decade.

The new Agreement shall reflect bilateral issues but also the increasing number of regional and global issues that Vanuatu, the EU and the wider Pacific address together, such as security, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and the sustainable management of oceans.

In the context of the Sustainable Development Agenda, Vanuatu presented the latest developments in the field of gender issues and on empowering women through planned constitutional reform. As proponents of regional cooperation, both the EU and Vanuatu agreed to further increase efforts to integrate New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Pacific Islands Forum and other regional fora.

The dialogue identified a number of areas for follow-up that will boost cooperation between European Union and Vanuatu in the period until the next political dialogue in 2019. Both the European Union and Vanuatu agreed a number of actions to assure the implementation of ongoing and future development programmes, notably in the agricultural sector. Participants also agreed to explore opportunities for Vanuatu offered by the Economic Partnership Agreement in terms of increased trade.

Both sides welcomed their close cooperation in the international fight against Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported fishing and in promoting the sustainable management of marine resources. The EU praised the impressive reform carried out by Vanuatu in its legal framework on fisheries and fleet management which represents a big step towards securing fish stocks for the future generations of the Vanuatu people.

The EU and Vanuatu agreed as well to work together on their common obligations to meet OECD norms and targets in a wider global effort to improve global tax practices. The Parties also discussed the way forward towards a full implementation of the EU-Vanuatu short-term visa waiver agreement. Lastly, both the European Union and Vanuatu recognised the value of continuing the Political Dialogue with a view to also enhancing strategic cooperation in multilateral fora.

The next Dialogue will be held in Port Vila in 2019.

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European Union Migrants Fuel Rise In England’s Vagrancy Problem – Heat Street

More than a fifth of people who sleep rough in England are migrants, with most of them coming from the European Union according to new figures.

Government statistics show that the total number of vagrants in the country climbed by 15 per cent to 4,134 last year. Of these, 714 were EU nationals.

The figures were obtained in a so-called single night snapshot. When the same exercise was conducted in 2014, the total number of homeless people was 2,744, meaning that the homeless figure appears to have risen by 51 per cent.

In London, the influx of EU migrants to the UK was even more evident, with 37 per cent of rough sleepers coming from Eastern European states including Romania, Poland and Lithuania.

Englands homelessness problem is concentrated in the capital, which accounts for 23 per cent of the total number of rough sleepers.

Opposition politicians have sought to criticise the government for the problem but blame has also been attributed to the EUs open border policy. Wealthy cities like London have acted as a magnet to those from poorer states. Under EU agreements, all EU citizens have the right to travel to any EU state signed up to the scheme.

Current trends show the population of the UK as a whole grows by about one million every three years. The official population of the UK now stands at about 65 million, a rise of 5 million in a decade.

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