The European Commission has given France and Italy a preliminary nod through on their draft budgets for 2015. In a statement released yes...

The new French government, led by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, yesterday won its first vote of confidence in the National Assembly . That ...

Europe's new 'dream team'? As we noted in our previous post , Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had sort of spoiled the s...

EU leaders have all arrived in Brussels for today's summit. There are two big issues on the table: the appointments of the next European...

Yesterday's European Council summit ended without an agreement on the remaining EU top jobs. However, something interesting still came...

We have been following the post-summit press conferences of EU leaders. Here is a round-up of the highlights, starting with German Chancello...

As we anticipated on our blog last week , the discussion over Jean-Claude Juncker's appointment as next European Commission President ...

The appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as next European Commission President is often boiled down to a stand-off between David Cameron and...

The European Commission has just released its latest round of country-specific recommendations (the Commission’s advice on how the country ...

The new French cabinet has just been unveiled (the picture comes from Le Figaro 's website ). A few ministers have been re-shuffled ar...

As expected , François Hollande yesterday named Interior Minister Manuel Valls, France's 'top cop' ( premier flic , hence the ...

If you want to get a sense of how badly the latest French local elections went for President François Hollande, have a look at today's f...

Yesterday was a big night for Marine Le Pen's anti-EU Front National, which emerged as the main winner of the first round of the Frenc...

With the European Parliament elections approaching, the number of EU-related opinion polls is growing. Beyond the mere voting intentions, th...

Well, this one snowballed quickly. The number of countries either implicated - or feeling the need to comment on - "Handygate" (...

Europe has reacted with surprise - and a degree of shock - to David Cameron's defeat in the House of Commons, which has de facto ruled...

I am shocked to find that the US has been spying Earlier in the week President Hollande was calling for the EU USA trade talks to be br...

To what extent have the latest leaks harmed the EU-US trade talks? Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks just keep giving. ...