Interesting snippet in this morning's Telegraph . Patricia Hewitt is leaving the Department of Health to chair a "manifesto committ...

Tony Blair in Parliament yesterday: Our comments in bold. Before the European Council, I made it clear that the concept of a constitutiona...

In respect of social security, we negotiated a provision which allows us to insist on unanimity in any case where we—that is, Britain—declar...

There was also a discussion at the Council about competition. The treaties have always made it clearthat competition in the internal market ...

There are also new powers for national Parliaments to object to Commission proposals on subsidiarity grounds. But these are meaningless - ev...

Bad news for Brown: Other EU politicians are being more honest than the British government. All over the continent they are freely ‘fessing ...

Thank God for the Irish. Instead of the nonsense that gets talked in the UK, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is telling it like it is: "I thin...

Isn't there something a bit peculiar about this sentance: "The Union Minister for Foreign Affairs will be called High Representativ...

An agreement has finally been reached. Predictably the Government has claimed victory and is attempting to persuade us it has secured its so...

While EU leaders are at the navel-gaze-athon in Brussels , the Doha round has finally officially collapsed . When everything at the Europe...

Strangely enough, the row over who-said-what-to-when in the Lib-Dem / Labour / Paddy Ashdown row might have some impact of the other row de ...

Feral media? Feral media???? We wish it was. The reality of the media in Brussels is that the politicians have journos over a barrel. The...

Mindboggling scenes at the Foreign Affairs Committee where Margaret Beckett has been speaking. She is still claiming that there have been no...

The Government is literally all over the place on the revised Constitutional Treaty. It's difficult to keep up with the multitude of dif...

A few extracts from CBI Director General Richard Lambert's speech at an event organised by pro-euro groups Centre for European Reform an...

Blair has been endorsed as a future President of Europe by Nicolas Sarkozy, according to the FT . And the non-denial-denials coming out of ...

Ludicrous comment of the day has to go to Lib Dem Euro MP Sarah Ludford: "While the Brussels machine is deadlocked by the search for 2...

Introduction This report from the German presidency is a response to the mandate which was given it by the European Council at its meet...

We were over in Brussels yesterday testing the temperature before the big summit next week. When EU leaders arrive the entire area around th...

After our first posting on Conservative Home on Monday one cynical commentator questioned whether we'd become an extension of the Tory...

Blogging is likely to be a bit light on this site for the next week, but we will be putting up a series of posts on Conservative Home on th...

It's often said that one of Tony Blair's best assets is his skill at acting. The feigned sincerity, the lump in the throat and -of c...

There is a lot going on at the moment. But amid all the short term rows about the revised constitutional treaty, the EU institutions are chu...

Hidden in the health section of Saturday's Times was the news that the Finnish city of Tampere is employing clowns to boost the health o...

Back in March some of the UK's leading brewers joined us in criticising the EU for passing a regulation which banned the Crown stamp fr...

What are the chances of EU leaders reaching agreement at the June EU Summit? Gideon Rachman informs us that although German foreign policy ...

The wheels of Europe turn slow - and the Financial Perspective for 2007-13, which was first agreed in December 2005, has now finally had all...

An interesting piece on the Constitution negotiations has gone up on the European Voice website (subscription only). It reports that the UK...

Housing Minister Yvette Cooper has not had the best of weeks. Home Information Packs , the measure which she had personaly championed - and ...

It seems that some Conservative MEPs were pretty unhappy to be told by their whips that they had to support the 1960s-style price caps put o...