Blog posts tagged "Europe"

April 27, 2012 5:16 pm 20 Comments

Is UKIP's Nigel Farage right about immigrants snapping up all the social housing? "All you have to do now if you come from Eastern Europe, all you have to do is to get a national insurance number - which you can get easily within a fortnight - and then you qualify automatically for social housing," he said. FactCheck investigates.

October 29, 2010 4:12 pm 13 Comments

FactCheck analyses Prime Minister David Cameron's claim that he "succeeded quite spectacularly" by persuading fellow European leaders to increase the EU budget by 3%.

3:49 pm 4 Comments

FactCheck analyses where EU member states' plans to create a new "permanent crisis mechanism" leave the Coalition Government's pledge to hold a referendum if new powers are transferred to Brussels.

October 28, 2010 1:53 pm 9 Comments

FactCheck analyses a claim from the Prime Minister and Treasury Chief Secretary that Labour MEPs voted for a 6% rise in the EU budget.

August 12, 2010 2:38 pm 4 Comments

“As we reduce our deficits, I think it is very important that we both argue to make sure that the European budget is, over time, reduced rather than increased.” David Cameron, August 12 2010

April 30, 2010 7:33 pm 5 Comments

Nick Clegg said on last night's Leaders' debate that he wasn't advocating entry into the euro but his manifesto says differently. FactCheck took a look.

April 22, 2010 11:33 am 3 Comments

Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, claims that if the UK were to approach the EU for entry into the Union now the undemocratic House of Lords would b

April 13, 2010 6:28 pm 5 Comments

UKIP Manifesto gets it wrong on the claim that the UK can't expel foreign criminals from the another EU country.