With politics heating up in the frigid Swedish winter we can’t help but get the sense that Europe is turning itself on its head a bit… Nor...

Pablo Iglesias with economists Navarro (right) and Torres López (left)   With the next general election only one year away, Spain's ...

UPDATE (1:00pm) - As promised, here's an update on the results of Catalonia's symbolic independence referendum now that all votes h...

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

On this blog, we have been tracking Podemos, Spain's six-month-old anti-establishment party, since its very first success in the Europea...

UPDATE (10:55am):  Catalan President Artur Mas has just been speaking to the press. His remarks were broadly in line with the blog analy...

The WSJ  reports today that Spain is using its dispute with the UK over Gibraltar to hold up/block the UK's re-entry into a number of ...

The signature of Catalan President Mas on today's decree The die is cast in Barcelona. Catalan President Artur Mas has just signed t...

FC Barcelona supporters waving Scottish flags at Camp Nou The world is watching Scotland today, and the Catalans will watch closer than ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) holds its monthly meeting in Frankfurt today - the day after ECB President Mario Draghi's 67th birthda...

The surge of anti-EU, anti-euro and protest parties across Europe continues. Germany's anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is ma...

(l-r) The foreign ministers of Italy, Spain and France EU foreign ministers will meet tomorrow to discuss what to do with Russia in ligh...

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...

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

As might be expected after some shocking showings in the European Parliament (EP) elections, the heads have begun to roll – and rightly so...

The European Parliament elections have dealt a blow to Spain's traditional two-party system. Together, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy...

The Bank of Spain released its latest data on the level of bad loans held by Spanish banks today. For the first time since January 2013, the...

Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti may be out of Italian politics, but it's fair to say he still likes to talk - especially whe...