A few interesting things from the last few days: Franco-Russian energy tie-up. Ever wonder why Jacques Chirac decided to give Vladimir Puti...

The BBC is leading this morning with the ridiculous Chatham House paper on Blair's Foreign Policy record. Who are these people? The aut...

According to the Sunday Telegraph many Romanians are already getting fed up with the EU and its attempts to ban local traditions such as s...

The Open Europe team has had all hands on deck this week stuffing envelopes with our new report on EU financial regulation which we're ...

Former Europe Minister Denis McShane has a letter in today’s FT, in response to an article by Malcolm Rifkind in the paper on Wednesday. S...

Jose Sequeira, the Commission bureaucrat marched from his office two years ago after the Commission's own medical service said he was me...

This story literally gets more extraordinary by the day. As Dan Hannan wrote a couple of months ago, "It’s hard to avoid the suspicion...

Charlie McCreevy, the Internal Market Commissioner, has a comment piece in today’s FT on EU financial services regulation, disputing the ar...

Mixed messages from the Cameron trip to Brussels. This morning the hard stuff: "The Common Agricultural Policy is an economic and huma...

The Treasury have released figs on how much the ECJ ruling on Controlled Foreign Companies is going to cost them. Its easy to find... if yo...

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell is to make his first "big" speech on Europe next tuesday morning. Apparently there is go...

People say that curiosity killed the cat. It's certainly capable of absorbing an incredible amount of research time. We wanted to know w...

Mischievous German newspaper die Tageszeitung yesterday tried its best to instigate a repeat of this summer's "potato wars" b...

According to PA John Reid has today ruled out giving up the UK's veto over police and justice issues. In typical straight-talking fashio...

Each month the International Crisis Group sends out a bulletin alerting us to new conflicts as they arise. They have just declared Novembe...

Our work on the Financial Services Action Plan is out . Its on the top half of P4 of the FT ( here and here ). Richard North doesn't li...

Richard North reports that Chris Booker on the Sunday Telegraph had his column cut after he penned a piece critical of David Cameron. Reg...

Ludicrous titles for academic papers are a great source of fun at 2AM when you are trying to research mindbendingly complicated trade policy...

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...