The Guilder - was it close to making a comeback?   Yesterday, former Dutch Finance Mininister Jan Kees de Jager, who held the role unti...

Here's a round-up of comments from other EU finance ministers about the UK's £1.7bn EU budget surcharge and the deal struck at tod...

In the past month there has been a lot of pushing and shoving over the eurozone's fiscal rules (see  here ). While renegotiating the S...

In a recent briefing, we stressed that David Cameron needs to pick a 'heavy-hitter' as UK's next European Commissioner if he ...

UPDATE (14:15) - One possibility we have not considered in our original blog post is that European Commission portfolios can change. They...

EU finance ministers met today , with the financial transaction tax (FTT) once again topping the agenda . They were presented with a new...

German coalition talks are dragging on, but we may have got a hint as to what a grand bargain between the eurozone north and south might l...

Talk surrounding the Irish exit from its bailout programme has been picking up in recent days and weeks given that it is supposed to get o...

Ten days ago, we wrote a blog asking, "Will the closure of the public broadcaster set the scene for a coalition showdown in Greece?...