Would the UK have zero influence outside the EU?  Outgoing European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is in London, and he has ma...

On his Telegraph blog , Open Europe Director Mats Persson looks at Lord Hill's nomination as the UK's next European Commissioner: ...

Own-goal alert. When selected as the Socialists' candidate for the European Commission President, Martin Schulz claimed that : “I ...

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog : The UK must be the first country, with the forthcoming Scottish and EU referend...

This is the argument made in  a very interesting op-ed penned by French MEP (and former Justice Minister) Rachida Dati, of the centre-ri...

The headlines above speak for themselves. From time to time, the European Commission makes an announcement that it wil...

The Open Europe team is back from the UK party conferences and, when it comes to the UK’s attempt to reach a new settlement in Europe, by ...

It’s that time of year again, when European Commission President José Manuel Barroso delivers his ‘State of the European Union’ speech , l...

As the crisis in Egypt continues to intensify by the day, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Commission President José Manue...

If you thought the wave of French attacks on European Commission President José Manuel Barroso was ebbing away, you were wrong. Today, it ...

As we reported in our daily press summary , European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has drawn criticism from the French governme...

Christmas is approaching and, in that spirit, José Barroso, the President of the European Commission, has written himself a wish list of ...

This is spot-on. Sara Skyttedal, vice-president of the Youth wing of the European People’s Party – the pan-EU party Commission President J...

The  front page  of today's  Die Welt   reads  "Germans no longer believe in Europe". According to a TNS Emnid poll carried ...

Brussels is on manoeuvres. European Commission President Barroso yesterday called for a quantum leap towards a "federation of states...

 It’s not the focus of the SW1 bubble today, but David Cameron will be taking a deep breath after Jose Manuel Barroso used his ‘state of ...

This morning, Handelsblatt  is reporting that EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Eurogroup ...

Plenty for Barroso to contemplate The European Commission has published the results of its latest Eurobarometer survey. Here are some in...

In an interview in today's FT , Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is raising the stakes in the talks on a  'banking union...

Some of you may recall the AIFM Directive , tabled by the European Commission in 2009. The proposal was aimed at striking down on hedge fund...