We always said he was a great guy. Actually, while his backing for a referendum is nice to have, the ludicrous combined-in-or-out-vote-plus...

Interesting stuff from David Blunkett in his column today: "The Government has a long way to go in providing a proper answer to the dem...

There's now a temporary website for the " European Council on Foreign Relations ". Apparently George Soros is going to spend ...

Apparently at the lobby briefing this morning the PMOS was insisting that "our position on the Constitution has not changed". Cue ...

In a piece on BBC online Labour’s leader in the European Parliament Gary Titley has admitted that the UK has not opted out of the Charter. ...

The Sun reports on growing pressure for a referendum within the Labour movement. Apparently a bunch of Labour MPs have written to Brown say...

Hmmmm... someone at BBC Online doesn't like the trade unions campaigning for a referendum. The GMB and RMT had joined the Tories and U...

Just having a first look through some results from the excellent " wikiscanner ." Someone from the European Commission has been ed...

The leaked paper from UK officials suggesting ways for Britain to wriggle out of EU renewable energy commitments is now up on the Guardian ...

Interesting piece by Andrew Bounds on the FT blog today, which makes a strong argument suggesting the EU will at some point have to make to...

A couple of weeks ago Gordon Brown accidentally talked at a press conference about how he had discussed "the Constitution" with t...

Richard Corbett writes that : Shame that a couple of Labour MPs, who lost their ministerial jobs several years ago and are no doubt disappoi...

Great mad stuff from the CER's blog . It's bylined by Hugo Brady, who is a nice chap, and very bright. But the contents are barkin...

Blimey - this from Theresa May, talking about reforming the European Scrutiny Committee in the Commons: "I believe that the Scrutiny Re...

The pro-euro camp are all busy congratulating themselves about having fooled the public by changing the name of the constitution. At a meeti...

Jim Murphy told a whopper while being interviewed by the Lords European Union Committee this morning. Asked about leaked legal advice for th...

Barroso's comments describing the EU as an "empire" are up on You Tube. Link here .

If you haven't signed it then sign it now. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EU-treaty-NON/

The latest from the FT on EU climate change policy: “The fight against climate change could soon be carried into the wardrobes of the Europ...

In today's Guardian Communities Secreatary Hazel Blears says that voters should be given a say on “big choices". The Guardian repo...

Jim Murphy, the new Europe Minster, made his first appearance at the European Scrutiny Committee today. The general consensus that it wasn...

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...