A draft budget for 2010 is set to see the European Parliament's budget increase by 6.5% to £2.6 billion.

Administrative costs are to also increase by a massive 20% while the EU is also planning to splash out £8 million on an internet-based TV channel. The cost of MEPs' pensions, salaries and expenses are set to increase by 4.5%..

UKIP has demanded that Gordon Brown must not donate UK taxpayers' hard-earned cash for somebody else's failed polticial project in Greece.

Party Spokesman Nigel Farage MEP said: "The Greek financial crisis is a crisis created by the EU and the creation of the Euro. In no way should the British taxpayer be hammered to pay for it.

One of the most common misconceptions among not just young people, but the wider electorate, is that the European Union issue is somehow isolated and seperate from the domestic agenda within British politics.

Nigel Farage, Co-president of Ind Dem group, UKIP Leader & MEP South East, wrote in the Bulletin from Brussels;

The revived and renamed EU Constitution will blow a hole wide open in Britain’s borders allowing the EU to take full control over Britain’s asylum and immigration policies.

The Treaty that Gordon Brown is expected to sign Britain up to next week includes new provisions; these will impose upon the UK the duty to be:
“fair towards third-country nationals”.
'Fairness' is subjective. This will allow the European Court of Justice to rule that an Australian style quota policy cannot be used to restrict immigration.

The European Commission looks set to call for taxpayers' money to prop up its collapsing Galileo satellite navigation project, which it hoped would rival America's GPS.

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