Antonia Mochan
EU doesn’t ban kids from blowing up balloons
From the Daily Mail: The Daily Telegraph: And, following close-behind, the Daily Express: It’s every anti-EU newspaper’s wet dream! Except, as Antonia Mochan, former head of media for the European Commission’s London office,… Read more
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More EU/ECHR confusion from the Mail
As regular readers of this blog will know, the Daily Mail, along with most other newspapers, seems to have some difficulty when it comes to the European Convention on Human Rights and, therefore, the European Court of Human Rights. They seem to… Read more
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EU/ECHR confusion: Brussels or Strasbourg?
As you probably know if you’re a regular reader, the newspapers have a lot of trouble telling the difference between the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. As I’ve pointed out before the ECHR (which is based in Strasbourg,… Read more
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EU/ECHR confusion: So it continues…
Today’s Daily Express carries a comment piece headlined: Despite this prominent mention of the EU, the piece begins: THE European Convention on Human Rights is often an enemy of the rights of law-abiding citizens and the duty of… Read more
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Papers don’t know their EU from their ECHR
At the end of last year, the European Commission’s London office sent the following note to several newsdesks: Information note to Newsdesks: European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is not part of the European Union (EU) Newsdesks and subeditors… Read more
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Ann gets it strictly wrong
In Ann Widdecombe’s latest column for the Daily Express, titled “CAMERON MUST SAY NO TO VOTES FOR PRISONERS”, she says:GIVING votes to prisoners is daft and should be resisted.If a court has decided that someone’s behaviour is so bad that he or… Read more
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Express is on another planet
The latest edition of the Sunday Express led with a story about EU funding: The article, which poured scorn on the EU for “wasting” money on the European space programme and for helping to fund “explicit films”, was picked apart by Atomic… Read more
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The Sun don’t know their EU from their ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is part of the Council of Europe, which is an entirely separate institution from the European Union. However, this is a distinction of which many newspapers seem to be unaware. A number of publications… Read more
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