EUobserver.com: UK to come with pro-business agenda for presidency

This June 9, 2005, article by Honor Mahony begins:

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Britain is set to push a largely pro-business agenda tackling major proposals that have been sitting in the EU legislative pipeline when it takes over the presidency of the bloc next month.

A briefing note sent to political group leaders in the European Parliament ahead of their meeting with ministers from the British government on Friday (10 June) outlines the strong priority given to cutting red tape and making life easier for businesses...

Granted that a UK government person's ideas of making life easier for businesses might not go as far as my ideas on making life easier for business men and women, this is still encouraging news, I think. Use title link for full article.

For related commentary, see Can the UK rescue the EU with a bit of 'europragmatism'? by Peter Sain ley Berry.