28th Feb 2008The EU is still coming up with ways to ensure Microsoft complies with the ruling by the European Court of First Instance (Europe’s second highest court) made last September. Microsoft has just been fined a record €899 million (£680m) for charging unreasonable prices to rivals for access to its dominant Windows software. The [...]
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27th Feb 2008When the winning bid for the original supercasino was announced, I was very pleased that it was not the Millennium Dome. London, and Greenwich in particular, had been spared the magnet for crime that such a supercasino would inevitably become. Neither did I buy the argument that the supercasino would provide employment. This [...]
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26th Feb 2008Congratulations to Mr Christofias on his convincing victory in the second round of the Cyprus presidential election on Sunday. His winning margin of 53.4% to Mr Kassoulides’ 46.6% was a convincing win. Having maintained good links with AKEL in Britain since my election to the European Parliament, I am especially pleased about MR [...]
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25th Feb 2008In case any of you were ever in any doubt, the Tories really haven’t changed. David Cameron’s efforts to seem greener, more women and race friendly and generally nicer, cannot disguise the real Conservative Party.The following blog posted on the Conservative Home website is proof, if ever it were needed.“Posted by: James Burdett [...]
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22nd Feb 2008Now that the Pakistan elections are over, you may like to know that my colleague Robert Evans was one of the team of election monitors throughout the difficult process. Election monitoring is an absolutely vital thing to do, and without it many elections, particularly in the developing world, would be neither free nor [...]
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20th Feb 2008Phil Woolas, our Environment Minister, is right when he says “it is morally unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on bottled water when we have pure drinking water, and at the same time one of the crises that is facing the world is the supply of water”. What’s wrong with tap [...]
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19th Feb 2008So Mr Papadopoulos has been defeated in the first round of the Cyprus Presidential elections. Mr Kasoulides of the centre right DISY and the progressive Communist Mr Chrisrofias remain. The second round of the election will take place on Sunday.Encouragingly both candidates are talking about working to find a settlement to the Cyprus [...]
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18th Feb 2008 Last week I had my regular three to four monthly meeting with the trade unions representing people in the culture industries – BECTU, the NUJ, the Musicians’ Union, the Writers’ guild and those in the film industry. These meetings are helpful for me as I can judge things on the Culture Committee [...]
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