The European Commission is considering hiking up tax on electronic cigarettes, even though an official government report shows that they are not a gateway to smoking and in fact help people quit tobacco. A report by the Office of National
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All airline passengers flying in and out of Europe are to have their personal data, including bank details, stored on a police database for up to five years in order to combat terrorism, under new plans from the European Commission.
MPs have uncovered massive waste in the EU’s aid spending programmes, to which the UK is a major contributor. Thanks to a culture within the European Commission which deems a project a success only when the full budget has been
