Oh the irony. The EU/ECB/IMF troika are now working their ever living tails off to push the Greeks and Portuguese towards more flexible la...

Today's Le Monde has a juicy example of one of the upcoming policy priorities in the European Commission's in-tray. A study* has a...

Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced a plan to ease the burden of regulation on small businesses in a bid to boost the economy. ...

The Government has today announced that it is to introduce a one-in, one-out system of regulation whereby "When Ministers seek to intr...

As readers are hopefully aware, EU regulation has been on our minds for the last few months as we put together our latest research on the e...

From very informative EU news site Euractiv : France and Germany have apparently set up a 'working group' charged with blocking refo...

Okay, so we've asked this question before on this blog. But it's one that just keeps coming back. The question has eluded politica...

In a rant in the Yorkshire Post Richard Corbett MEP churns out his familiar and tired old claim that critics of the European Union such as O...

As part of a statement regarding measures to help businesses cope with regulation, Lord Mandelson has today announced that the Government i...

During a debate on a different topic in the Commons yesterday our Europe Minister Caroline made a very bold claim indeed. She said: "O...

The European Court of Justice yesterday delivered a controversial ruling on the EU's Data Retention Directive, which went largely unnot...

In case you missed it, Open Europe Research Director Mats Persson was on the BBC Politics Show on Sunday, discussing our new research , whi...

Sainsbury's is challenging the EU to ditch its strict rules on the shape and size of fruit and veg, after it was told that a plan to se...

Europe is heading for a recession. The UK is experiencing the biggest jobless rise in 17 years. Barclays has predicted that there could be ...

A few extracts from CBI Director General Richard Lambert's speech at an event organised by pro-euro groups Centre for European Reform an...

Back in March some of the UK's leading brewers joined us in criticising the EU for passing a regulation which banned the Crown stamp fr...

When confronted with statistics about the burden that EU regulation places on UK businesses and voluntary bodies (at the last count it was o...

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