Colin Powell has joined the list of people saying Iraq is a "civil war". He isn't the only one. Foreign Policy are listing w...

The NATO summit, which has just finished, will almost certainly be Jacques Chirac's last as French President. True to form he has been t...

Rule number one of journalism. The only thing the media likes nearly as much as a top Tory totty scandal is a story about... the media. He...

Now you too can wield terrifying power... by taking part in the " be an MEP " internet game. (expenses not included)

Interesting argument over on Sinclair's blog about the EU.

Does long-term support for the euro have wider effects on your mental health? Ask John Gummer. We assume its just another "Polly Toynbe...

Two interesting papers here and here from National Institute for Economic and Social Research, on the effect of migration within Europe. A...

More from the EV: Commission and UK officials have confirmed that next week the Director-General for Regional Policy Graham Meadows will wri...

This week's European Voice has a cracking interview with the man behind Nicolas Sarkozy's mini-treaty proposals on the EU Constitut...

Extraordinary scenes at the London School of Economics last night. Peter Sutherland, ex-EU Commissioner and Chairman of BP, was physically s...

Poor old Geoff Hoon . It seems that hardly a week goes by without him suffering another humiliation. It all began with the cabinet reshuffle...

The Government has released the latest quarterly update of the numbers of Eastern European workers who have registered to work in the UK sin...

The FT diary this morning mentions that: David Cameron is finally slipping over to Brussels next month. The Tory leader who has studious...

EU ministers are having dinner with Putin on Friday. Presumably Sushi is off the menu . The Poles won't enjoy it very much either. As ...

Oxfam New Zealand report on the EU's negotations to access Pacific fishing grounds. Sounds like the EU might do for Fiji and other deve...

Dull press releases of the world unite. The European Movement is planning to launch a new " Speak up Europe " campaign later in t...

We're just back from giving evidence to the Home Office select committee. They're doing an inquiry on the future of the Hague Progra...

We’ve launched a petition on the new downing street site to ask the PM to end Europe 's unfair trade barriers against developing coun...

Groan. Horribly superficial article on French politics by Martin Kettle in the Guardian . "Royal also won because she represents a gene...

A paper for the Swedish Government says the forthcoming Rome III regulation - intended to harmonise laws on divorce - could see Iranian div...

People have said for a long time that Brown would look for ways to reposition Labour on Europe, and even for ways to outflank the Tories. Th...

The Commons European Scrutiny Committee has published a report today on the EU Commission's proposal to move criminal justice and polic...

If you were wondering whether the government's "strategy" of making green issues the new rationale for the EU was driven by (a...

Francis Maude has written to Tim Mongomerie to say that the Conservatives are thinking about changing the way they select people for the ne...

...have a new blog. Hey! It looks like a negative of ours! http://centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com/ The CER are interesting - and just d...

According to Mannekin Pis cunning EU leaders are planning to include large chunks of the EU Constitution in the Berlin Declaration next Ma...

The IAEA have found plutonium and more enriched uranium in Iran. Red faces? No way - in fact it's surely time for them to complain to t...

Elaib picks up on the existential crisis of Europe Minister Geoff Hoon. It's all very left bank . Reminds us of Guy Debord's answe...

Ben Brogan picks up on John Hulsman's controversial speech at our dinner the other night.

Aha - now Geoff Hoon is telling people in Strasbourg that the much vaunted 'controls' on Bulgarian and Romanian workers will be lif...