David Cameron and his Europe Minister will never secure the best deal for...
There is lots of discussion going on today about David Cameron’s interview in this morning’s Daily Telegraph. While the paper led on what he said about austerity, the thing that most struck me was what...
View ArticleBritish taxpayers deserve a better deal in Europe
This week the UK is expected to be outvoted at a meeting of Europe ministers on the size of the EU’s next budget. While households across the country are having to make cutbacks, and the British...
View ArticleEU’s £2 million a year complex in Barbados
There have been so many stories about the EU wasting taxpayers’ money in ludicrous ways, that we start to think we’ll eventually become immune to the shock. But, as ever, the ladies and gents in...
View ArticleA Doomed Marriage: Britain and Europe by Daniel Hannan
The gusts and gales of autumn are sadly approaching, but there may still be a handful of golden evenings and gilded weekends yet to come. So perhaps there’s still time to add another volume to the...
View ArticleMeeting the EU’s Tax Commissioner
Last Monday myself and Matthew Elliott, along with Dan Mitchell from the Cato Institute in Washington DC and Zilvinas Silenas and Kaetana Leontjeva from the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, ventured...
View ArticleThe farcical nonsense of the MEPs’ travelling circus to Strasbourg
The European Union knows how to waste money and there are few greater nonsenses than the monthly charade that is known as the “travelling circus” to Strasbourg. Every month, all MEPs, staff and...
View ArticleA full EU audit is required
The Spectator reported today that David Cameron will, before Christmas, announce a referendum on his renegotiation of the UK’s membership of the European Union should he be re-elected. Quite what this...
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First, do no harm: how politicians can make tax avoidance and evasion worse
In every Budget, whichever party is in charge, there is a bit about reducing the extent of tax avoidance and evasion. Clamping down on tax dodging always sounds like a big free lunch. Politicians find...
View ArticleTim Aker: The EU is not a friend of the UK taxpayer
Tim Aker is the Campaign Manager at the new campaign Get Britain Out We currently pay £53 million a day into their coffers as our gross contribution. Professor Tim Congdon has estimated our overall...
View ArticleComment: EU budget stalemate – The battle is about more than European waste
Writing for City A.M. Matthew Sinclair argues that the latest EU budget row is about the ultimate objectives of the Union, not just how much money it wastes in the process: THE EU summit in Brussels...
View ArticleOur response to David Cameron’s speech on Europe
Reacting to the speech David Cameron has just delivered, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It is absolutely right that the Prime Minister should be seeking a better...
View ArticleThe EU Budget must be cut
European national leaders are back to the negotiating table in Brussels today to try and strike a deal on the next seven years of EU spending after initial negotiations broke down in November 2012. The...
View ArticleDespite welcome cut to EU Budget, British taxpayers still lose out
Reacting to the announcement of a cut in the European Union Budget, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), said: “It is completely unacceptable that while hard pressed...
View ArticleIdentifying the best model for future UK-EU relations
It’s very nearly forty years since the UK joined the European Economic Community, the body which has now evolved into the European Union. The last – and indeed only – time that Britons gave their...
View ArticleEU wastes £6 billion in 2012
Widespread austerity. Slashed budgets. Tough spending decisions. Not for the EU, it seems. This week, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found that the European Union wasted almost £6 billion last...
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