The extraordinary rise of Podemos, Spain's eight-month-old protest party, continues. A new Metroscopia poll for  El País , released on ...

As we already noted here , today we published a new pamphlet by Professor Damian Chalmers of the LSE and our Research Director Stephen Bo...

Der Spiegel reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned David Cameron at last month’s EU summit that she would no longer try...

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

Open Europe Berlin Director Michael Wohlgemuth has written an interesting piece for World Review , looking at the current status of the Ge...

Gone but not yet forgotten The European Parliament and the political machines that dominate it were, according to many, not supposed to ...

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...

When Matteo Renzi was widely tipped to take over as Italian Prime Minister back in February, we wrote on this blog :  Renzi may be able ...

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

Tusk and Merkel "discuss the World Cup" ahead of today's European Council summit ( h/t Maciek Sokolowski ) Yesterday, we r...

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 ...

The Bundesbank attacks Renzi: "He tells us what to do" . This is today's front page headline of Italian daily La Repubblica...

We’ve been overdue an update on the situation in Ukraine. Over the past few weeks, as anyone following the news will have seen, the situat...

UPDATE (11:30am) - In a separate interview with Quotidiano Nazionale on Saturday, Mr Del Rio explicitly speaks of a "great victory...

The UK suffered a major defeat this afternoon when it was outvoted over Juncker becoming the next president of the European Commission. Howe...

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