In September 2006, Farage became the UKIP Leader and led the party through the 2009 European Parliament Election in which it received the second highest share of the popular vote, defeating Labour and the Liberal Democrats with over two million votes.

Farage is a founding member of the UKIP, having left the Conservative Party in 1992 after they signed the Maastricht Treaty.

In May 2009, The Guardian reported that Farage had said in a speech to the Foreign Press Association that over ten years as a member of the European Parliament he received £ 2 million of taxpayers ' money in staff, travel, and other expenses on top of his £ 64, 000 a year salary.

Affiliated Penn State faculty include William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Professor of Law and member of the Russia International Court of Commercial Arbitration ; Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law ; Philip J. McConnaughay, dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law ; Panagiotis Takis Tridimas, professor of law and Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law at Queen Mary College, University of London.

The EAF has individual members linked to the Austrian Freedom Party of Heinz-Christian Strache, the British UKIP of Nigel Farage, and other movements such as the Sweden democrats, Vlaams Belang ( Belgian Flanders ) and from Malta, Germany ( Burger in Wut ), Slovakia ( SNS ), etc.

At the 2010 general election, mostly just fringe candidates stood against John Bercow, but he was also contested by Nigel Farage, former and new leader of UKIP, who obtained 17. 4 % of the vote ( up from 3. 5 %), and John Stevens, from the Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy party, who obtained 21. 4 % of the vote.

Nigel Paul Farage (, ; born 3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent ), is a British politician and is the Leader of the UK Independence Party ( UKIP ), a position he also held from September 2006 to November 2009.

In November 2010, Farage successfully stood in the 2010 UKIP leadership contest, following the resignation of its leader, Lord Pearson of Rannoch.

Farage was also ranked 41st in The Daily Telegraphs Top 100 most influential right-wingers poll in October 2009, citing his media savvy and his success with UKIP in the European Elections.

Farage is presently the leader of the thirteen-member UKIP contingent in the European Parliament, and co-leader of the multinational eurosceptic group, Europe of Freedom and Democracy.

Farage at the UKIP Conference in 2009.

On 12 September 2006, Farage was elected leader of UKIP with 45 % of the vote, 20 % ahead of his nearest rival.

Farage had unsuccessfully contested UK parliamentary elections for UKIP five times, both before and after his election as an MEP in 1999.

On 4 September 2009 Farage resigned as leader of UKIP to concentrate on his campaign to become Member of Parliament for Buckingham at Westminster in the 2010 general election.

Farage declared himself personally in favour of the Alternative Vote system of May 2011, saying first-past-the-post is a " nightmare " for UKIP.

Asked what would happen to UKIP if the Tories made a Manifesto commitment to a European referendum, Farage said they had already failed to honour a " cast iron " commitment for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.

Farage, then head of UKIP's South East office, asked for a video and got friends to make illegal copies which were sold for £ 5 through the UKIP magazine.

From taking office as a UKIP MEP in 1999, Farage has often voiced opposition to the " euro project ".

He supported the United Kingdom Independence Party's ( UKIP ) Nigel Farage in that election to replace him.

In December 2005, the phrase was used by British United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) Nigel Farage who said the French President Jacques Chirac was "... no cheese-eating surrender monkey, he ", in an unflattering comparison to Tony Blair during a session of the European Parliament following Blair's brokering of the EU budget deal.

In September 2006, following the election of Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP, Whittaker was appointed party chairman.

The group's co-chairs were Nigel Farage ( UKIP ) and Hanne Dahl, the latter succeeding Kathy Sinnott, who in turn succeeded long-time MEP Jens-Peter Bonde ( June Movement ) on his retirement in May 2008.

Heffer has written sympathetically about and backed the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) and Nigel Farage.

It was backed by David Clelland, Labour MP, John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP, and Nigel Farage MEP, and leader of UKIP.

The party's leader Nigel Farage pledged to support him in the election for the National Executive Committee. Hamilton was elected to the committee on 1 November 2011.

Debates in the past year have seen such figures as Andrew Mitchell, David Blunkett and Nigel Farage discussing the merits of the coalition government, Max Mosley debating whether the British press have too much freedom and Max Clifford discussing reality TV.

In response to this revelation, Nigel Farage MEP of the UK Independence Party persuaded around 75 MEPs from across the political spectrum to back a motion of no confidence in Barroso, so as to compel him to appear before the European Parliament to be questioned on the matter.

The blog is claimed to be written by a collective of authors embedded in UKip and working in The EU, with the aim of exposing corruption, incompetence and the dishonourable behaviour of The Farage Party and its various associates.

In September 2009, Nigel Farage resigned his leadership of the United Kingdom Independence Party to challenge Bercow, asserting, " This man represents all that is wrong with British politics today.

Farage describes himself as a libertarian and rejects the notion that he is a conservative.

At the 2010 General Election, Farage failed to unseat John Bercow and received only the third highest share of the vote in the constituency.

Shortly after the polls opened on 6 May 2010, Nigel Farage was injured in an aircraft crash in Northamptonshire.

Both Farage and the pilot were hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries.

Farage was ranked 58th in the 2010 list compiled by Iain Dale and Brian Brivati for the Daily Telegraph.

Farage has been noted for his passionate and sometimes controversial speeches in the European Parliament.

Farage was born in Farnborough, Kent on 3 April 1964 to Guy Farage and Barbara Stevens.

Farage was educated at Dulwich College.

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

In 2005, Americheer became one of the founding members of the NLCC.

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In 1957, Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the European Economic Community ( later the European Union ) and in 1999 it joined the euro currency area.

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The politics of Monaco have traditionally been under the autocratic control of the Prince of Monaco, and from its founding, the principality was a monarchy ruled by the House of Grimaldi ; however, with the creation of a Constitution in 1911, the Prince relinquished his autocratic rule and the principality became a constitutional monarchy.

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