about the Charter of Fundamental Rights in tomorrow's Economist The extraordinary 12-point questionnaire sent out to EU governments by ...

Jose Barroso has been speaking to the IOD this afternoon. He said that "A successful conclusion to the Uruguay Round could generate mor...

with Andrew Moravcsik : "Far from demonstrating of the failure and fragility of European integration, the collapse of the constitution...

The Sunday Times has a piece setting out the Government's four "Red lines" for the forthcoming negotiations. Needless to say,...

A letter from Angela Merkel to the other heads of Government seems to be doing the rounds. The contents rather cut across the Government...

There's a complete transcript of Blair's interview last week on European Voice . Blair argues that the decision to promise a referen...

Blair in Le Monde this morning: "we must listen to the people" So why does he say in the same interview that he is ruling out a re...

Blair has done an interview for some of the European papers for tomorrow. He argues that if the forthcoming treaty doesn't change the fu...

The First Post has picked up on a Ministry of Defence Global Strategic Trends paper that looks ahead to 2037. Their vision apparently inclu...

­­­Very interesting article in the Times today from arch-Blairite Alan Milburn . He says lots of good stuff that most people who are critic...

According to Ben Brogan , Europe Minister Geoff Hoon is being lined up as a possibile Chief Whip in the almost-inevitable Gordon Brown admin...

The Swedish EU-debate is showing healthy signs of revival. In Saturday’s Expressen, 50 young Swedish representatives of liberal and conserva...

Ungh. The spin begins. At his press conference today with the Dutch PM, Tony Blair started to explain why the Government thinks it can duc...

This is how the staff of the FCO are deployed, from a FOI request last year. By far the biggest chunk are in the EU Directorate. It dwarfs...

Compare and contrast: The EU in 2010 by Charles Grant (pub. 2000) The EU in 2027 by Charles Grant (pub. 2007) The first time out the UK wa...

Beatroot reports that Poland will hold a local referendum on a planned motorway through the Rospuda valley. Interesting row with the EU if...

It's tempting to write an intemperate blog about this: Preliminary figures released yesterday show that the EU's carbon dioxide emis...

More from France's leading economic liberal... There is another possible policy. That is the policy of reciprocity – our markets are o...

...says Malcolm Rifkind In an ideal world quick action by the UN Security Council would have been the way forward. But the Russians and Chin...

V interesting peice by Charles Grant from the CER on the German plans to bring back the Constitution and the deal that the British governmen...

As we've noted before EU government's refusal to stop spending tax payers money supporting business ventures in Iran - let alone a...

Get out there and get posting, say the Labour Movement for Europe. http://www.lme.org.uk/campaigns/online.htm Mark Mardell's blog seems ...

At a seminar we held on Monday on EU trade policy one of the experts - Chris Stevens - said that dealing with the EU reminded him of the t...

Interesting snippet from Charles Moore's notes in today's Spectator: "Meanwhile, the Conservative party continues its devotion ...

A mole on the European Scrutiny Committee has just got in touch about a session that took place this afternoon: "One of the few influen...

Sorry for the lack of posting recently, we've been pretty busy . Neil's got a piece up on Conservative Home today on how the Govern...

The EU - cockups from day one. Alan Little on the Today programme reveals that the six leaders of the EEC actually signed a blank bundle of...

says Christopher Booker in the Mail. Mark Littlewood (formerly of Britain in Europe) seems to agree. On Newsnight he fessed up that we were...

BBC Online's coverage of the EU's 50th anniversary has been absolutely extraordinary. They have missed a great opportunity to deal w...

The Government’s present strategy on Europe (other than praying that whole issue of the Constitution will somehow disappear) has largely f...