From Ananova we hear that entrepreneurial Romanian witches - a recognised profession in the new member state - have expanded their operatio...

The World Trade Organisation’s trade policy review for the EU was released yesterday. Today’s IHT has picked up on this, and summarises th...

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

Serf points out some none-too-subtle threats.

No contradictions here: (1) The Commission proposes various new environmental laws, casually helping itself to new competences in criminal l...

The Adam Smith Institute have launched a competition to design a new and better EU Constitution, with £1000 as a prize for the best contrib...

The Sunday Telegraph reported that Robin Cook's former advisor David Clark is planning to set up another pro-EU campaign group. Appare...

OK, so other people pointed it out first. But things in Brussels are getting more and more surreal. EU observer reports that ministers to...

The German Presidency is seeking an agreement on a framework decision on racism and xenophobia which would outlaw “genocide denial” across ...

Today's Mail has picked up on a report by the EU's anti-fraud office OLAF which calculates that the EU loses £2 million pounds of i...

Is Mandelson going to keep his job under a Brown administration? While watching the tributes to Ian Richardson on Channel 4 news on Friday ...

This is almost entirely off topic. Remember the old joke where various poliical systems were described in terms of "you have two cows?...

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There are a bunch of interesting things in the Treasury's review of the internal market (which comes ahead of the Commission's own ...

According to the FT the EU Commission will tomorrow put forward a proposal to require member states to punish environmental crimes with ha...

The most mental EU funded propaganda ever? Why yes, we think it might be. http://www.europocket.tv/ After approx 3.5 seconds of hyperactiv...

Iconic French farmer and anti-globalisation activist Jose Bove today announced he is running for president of France, a move that could fur...

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...