Chichester: Europe has much more to gain from globalisation than it has to lose

Speech by Giles Chichester MEP, Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, during the debate on the Preparations for the European Council - Strasbourg 12 March 2008

Mr President, this European Council takes place with great economic uncertainty in the air. The summit will consider an update of the Lisbon ...

Chichester: Brown has turned into the Grand Old Duke of York of British Politics

Speech By Giles Chichester Mep, Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, to the Welsh Conservative Party Conference

Mr Chairman, Fellow Conservatives, Ladies & Gentlemen,

I am honoured that my first speech to a Conservative Party conference as Leader of the Conservative Members of the European Parliament brings me ...

Giles Chichester: Lisbon Treaty takes Europe in the wrong direction

Speech by Giles Chichester MEP, Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, during the debate on the Future of Europe in Strasbourg

"Mr President, I am delighted to welcome the Prime Minister today. His historic win in the Swedish general election was a personal triumph. I also congratulate him ...

Chichester: 2002 Euro Commentary

CHANGING PUBLIC OPINION

Four years ago I delivered a speech on the implications of economic and monetary union (EMU) for British business, to the inaugural meeting of the German British Chamber of Commerce south west branch in the Guildhall at Exeter. You might say that a lot of currency has ...

Implication of the Euro for British Business

IMPLICATION OF THE EURO FOR BRITISH BUSINESS

EXPERIENCE OF RUNNING A BUSINESS

For most of my life I have been a small businessman running a small family map publishing firm founded by my father Sir Francis Chichester in 1946, coincidentally the year in which I was born. I started as ...