There's talk about restarting WTO talks soon. But according to the IHT the new talks will happen on a product by product-by-product bas...

Is the EU attempting to pull off some sort of cunning triangulation strategy on smoking? 1) Yesterday EU Health Commissioner Markos Kypriano...

Jan Siefert, leader of the "Young European Federalists" has pulled together a list of the people taking part in the behind closed ...

Just as Ségolène Royal's campaign appears to be tanking , rocked by a series of gaffes, her smooth rival Nicolas Sarkozy brings out the ...

From time to time we get some rather peculiar correspondence from pro-euro fanatics. Invariably they are banged up on a type writer/ in gre...

An old EU joke: "How many people work in Brussels?" "About half of them." For years groups like Britain in Europe have b...

A Russian man has been caught trying to sell weapons grade uranium in Georgia. Oleg Khinsagov was arrested with 100g of uranium wrapped in ...

The Swedish press has been awash with rumours that Angela Merkel sent a letter to the Swedish Government which - among other things - set o...

More nuggets from the Fabian conference, this time from Charles Grant , who has played an influential role in developing New Labour's EU...

Just got back from a Fabian Society conference on "making EU enlargement work." The event turned into a bit of a love-in for good...

Oh no - another appalling EU cartoon. The Liberal Democrats' group in the European Parliament - ALDE - have produced an online comic str...

The so-called sherpas (EU leaders' envoys to behind-closed-doors talks on reviving the Constituiton) are meeting together tomorrow in Be...

After seven and a half months the Czech Republic finally has a new government. The ODS have managed to convince two social democrats to join...

Jack Straw today in Parliament - when asked about Mandelson's piece in the Guardian this morning: "I read his article this morning ...

From the " pro-European declaration ": If Labour is to provide answers for Britain to the new challenges of social justice and glo...

Which is more pathetic: the EU or the UK government's approach to it? Angela Merkel's rambling and turgid speech yesterday seems t...

... the EU is expanding its control over member states' criminal justice systems. Two good examples from the agenda of today's meeti...

The FT reveals that Joseph Daul - the man just sworn in as head of the EPP - is under investigation for fraud. The investigation centres on...

March 2007 will be a month of carnivals, concerts and parties across much of Brussels . The EU hopes to win over the affection of its citize...

According to the Press Association David Cameron has claimed today that the Conservatives are leading the way on climate change. He claimed...

The EU’s statement on climate change and energy security came out yesterday. It said several eye catching things: First some dramatic predi...

Mild panic setting in among Brown's people about the prospect of Blair stitching up a deal on the future of the EU Constitution just bef...

...of old Europe. Joseph Daul celebrates his victory in the EPP leadership elections in Le Monde . “My main rival, Swedish Gunnar Hokmark,...

Great story in the Evening Standard Londoner's Diary about an extraordinary typo in the EU's 2007 pocket diary, which has already be...

Ben Brogan has picked up on Cameron's trip to Bavaria, where he's speaking at the CSU conference. “There is a positive agenda f...

There's a good piece in this week's Economist, in the Charlemagne column about the debate over resurrecting the EU Constitution. Its...

Johan Norberg has an interesting thing from a Swedish blog about the upcoming election of a new leader of the EPP next tuesday. He says MEP...

A few bits and pieces: We've just published our latest pamphlet : The EU in 2007. We attempt to assess how the French elections and the ...

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...