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

300% interest - in the EU it is legal As most of you will know by now, the European Commission has asked the UK to pay an extra £1.7bn s...

David Cameron has taken a very tough position on the EU budget surcharge, claiming that he "won't pay" the £1.7bn the Commiss...

Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt is today hosting David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Dutch PM Mark Rutte, in Harpsund, Sweden - a recreational e...

We've already blogged about the Dutch #EP2014 exit poll but we thought we'd also break down the projected result according to the c...

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

It's good to hear a Dutch speaking liberal party leader forcefully expressing the case for EU reform. Sadly, as we noted earlier , it ...

Thierry Baudet This week, the Dutch Parliament held a debate on whether it is necessary to hold a referendum on transferring new powers ...

Viviane Reding In a few weeks time, the transitional restrictions on citizens from Bulgaria and Romania gaining full access to all EU me...

The Dutch are quickly becoming Europe's thought leaders on EU reform. The Dutch government's "subsidiarity review" contai...

We already knew that the Dutch parliament is a legislature that takes 'subsidiarity' seriously. But now it has really come out swi...

The Sunday Telegraph 's front page story about a study commissioned by the European Commission into EU migrants and access to welfare h...

A new Gallup poll for Debating Europe has asked peple all over the EU, except Luxembourg for some reason, about their views on austerity. ...

Dutch PM Mark Rutte (VVD) and Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans (PVdA) discussing what the EU should and should not be doing? For anyone...

To some, the Commission's decision, two weeks ago, to take the UK to the ECJ over its rules on EU migrants' access to welfare was...

The Netherlands, considered one of the eurozone's fiscal hawks, has become the latest country to test the EU's new instruments fo...

Former Dutch Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkesten is best known for having authored the liberalising EU Services Directive (in its ...

In 2005, Dutch voters rejected the European Constitution A Dutch citizens' campaign to make it mandatory to hold a referendum on an...

Responses to the extraordinary results of the Italian elections have started to come in from around the rest of Europe, the most interestin...

Events may have conspired to prevent David Cameron from delivering his Europe speech in Amsterdam as originally planned but it has still...