Tag: Independence

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said he would aim to give lawmakers from England a veto over laws that do not apply to other parts of Britain, a move that could appeal to voters flirting with a surging

Britain’s anti-European UK Independence Party (UKIP) was on Thursday set to claim its second seat in parliament a month after gaining its first foothold as voters went to the polls in Rochester. The by-election in southeast England was called after

The Labour party would fund 1,000 new UK border guards by introducing a £10 levy on all travellers from countries which have a visa waiver agreement with the UK, allowing them to be fast tracked through customs. The plan was

The King of Sweden has sent Palestine a message of support on its National Day, which celebrates their Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Israel. King Carl XVI Gustaf sent the personal message to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday. The

A high-ranking Conservative has admitted that Rochester and Strood will fall to the UK Independence Party this Thursday, and that the Conservative party’s best hopes are now to keep the “defeat to single digits”. Meanwhile, six more Conservatives are rumoured

The new SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to prop up a Labour government in 2015, according to the Daily Mail. Sturgeon, who is due to replace former leader Alex Salmond as First Minister next week after a vote in

Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has forced the European Commission’s chief scientific advisor out of her post – because she supports genetically modified crops. Professor Anne Glover’s post will be abolished in January following a letter sent to Commission President Jean-Claude

Down a broken road winding through a corner of Pakistan’s Punjab province lies a silent graveyard, the resting place of hundreds of soldiers who fought for Britain in two world wars. Nestled in the rocky hills of Punjab’s salt ranges,

The EU’s top court ruled on Tuesday that member states do not have to provide social welfare payments to EU citizens moving to their country solely to claim benefits. Charges that the European Union’s core freedom of movement principle has

Today Parliament votes on extending the European Arrest Warrant scheme. Indefinitely. I’m perplexed. Usually when we approach a significant milestone in this country we hold a national commemoration of sorts. But alas, thanks to David Cameron’s Three-Line-Whip, and the grim

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that Britain should not be willing to stay in the European Union “come what may”, as his main political rival said the promise of a referendum on membership of the

MADRID (AP) — The Catalonia region’s president is riding a wave of enthusiasm among independence seekers Monday, a day after a non-binding vote on secession from Spain showed strong though not overwhelming support for breaking away. Artur Mas received an

Former UK Independence Party treasurer Stuart Wheeler has announced his intention to mount a legal challenge against Britain’s opt-in to the European Arrest Warrant, if Parliamentarians vote to re-join the program tomorrow. Although the European Arrest Warrant came into force

The Indian Army has admitted it made a mistake in shooting dead two teenagers in restive Indian-administered Kashmir this week, a rare public admission of fault by the armed forces. The teenagers died after soldiers fired at a car on

LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Just weeks after seeing their dream of an independent Scotland wiped out in an historic referendum defeat, Scottish nationalists have turned failure into a revival which could transform British politics at next year’s UK general election. The

The former Labour Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, is secretly planning to run for the City of London Council, in a move that will further politicise the once independent body. Breitbart London can exclusively reveal Scotland is planning the run for

A Spanish central government official on Thursday warned the wealthy region of Catalonia that it is banned from using public resources to stage a symbolic independence referendum this weekend. Spain’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday ordered the Catalan government to suspend

Britain’s new European Commissioner sought to calm tensions between London and the EU Thursday, saying the question of its membership was “a boil that needs to be lanced”. Jonathan Hill’s comments came after the fault lines between Britain and the

Just when Kosovo appeared to be heading for a degree of stability and normalcy, feuding politicians and fresh corruption scandals have plunged the fledgling Balkan nation into its worst political crisis to date. A quirk in the young nation’s constitution

Iceland’s finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson has told his party conference that the country’s accession talks with the EU have come to an end, according to reports by the country’s paper Morgunblandid. The application for joining the bloc was submitted in