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The European Movement - All-party movement campaigning for the European Union to become more democratic and effective, and for Britain to play a full role within it.
Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIB) - Coalition group which seeks the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and specifically the repeal of the European Communities Act of 1972 under which EU directives take precedence over UK law.
United Kingdom Independence - Group in favour of UK withdrawal offer EU and UK news, statements of views, forum, polls and links. Unaffiliated with the UKIP.
Spiked Politics - Issues: The EU - Collection of archived columns about European Union and euro issues.
European Movement (Oxfordshire Branch) - Information on the European Movement's Oxfordshire Branch, plus regularly updated articles on Britain's role in the EU and Europe's impact on Britain.
WebRing - Euro-Sceptic - Collection of groups, organizations, people and web sites critical of European federalization.
CAFE - Conservatives Against a Federal Europe - British site opposed to European integration.
Democracy Movement - A non-party campaign to keep the pound and stop the "European Superstate"; formed from Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party and the Euro Information Campaign.
Euroseptic.co.uk - Eurosceptic humour, graphics and icons, and merchandise.
The Magna Carta Society - Promotion of the rights and freedoms of the British subjects, assured for all time by the Magna Carta, 'proves' all EU Law illegal in Britain.
Euro-Links Search Engine - Directory of web sites pro and anti European federalization.
Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Report: Britain and the EU - Ongoing coverage focuses on the political issues with the European Union and the UK. Includes news, comment and analysis plus speeches, official texts and audio clips.
BBC News - In Depth: Inside Europe - Ongoing collection of news and views plus background briefings, country profiles, history and online audio programmes. Includes issues of enlargement and an EU constitution.
The European Union Committee of the UK House of Lords - Scrutinises and produces reports on European Legislation: background to the Committee, copies of evidence and reports.
Britain in Europe - Campaign for greater integration between Britain and the European Union includes pro-EU articles and information advocating adoption of the euro as Britain's currency.
Campaign Against Euro Federalism - A trade union-based campaign opposing the EU from the viewpoint of the democratic left.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: European Union - Ongoing coverage with news, comment and analysis about the European Union itself and its issues, policies and future. Includes links to official documents, European government and media sites.
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) European Union Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald European Union The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents European Union He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) European Union "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) European Union Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry European Union "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. European Union A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history European Union "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m European Union If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) European Union Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster European Union Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers European Union Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru European Union "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str European Union "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain European Union Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana European Union A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) European Union Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) European Union Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is European Union You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill European Union Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich European Union Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will European Union
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