...Depends whether you are living in a developing country faced with higher EU tariffs on the 1st of January. Have a look at our new briefin...

According to the Commisssion's EUR-LEX database, some time this month the EU passed its 100,000th law. The search reveals that 100,206 ...

The Indie didn't like the patients passport much. Like us they thought the top up proposals were the wrong way to go about introducing...

So - the Scottish Parliament has tonight voted for a referendum on the revived Constitutional Treaty. SNP, Green and Conservative MSPs voted...

From the Devil's Kitchen - Footage of the chaotic scenes in the European parliament during the ridiculous "proclaimation" of ...

From the Guardian last week: Mandelson hits back at African leaders on trade "If all of Africa has rejected EPAs, why are we getting pe...

Why is it always on the busiest days that really complicated things crop up? The Foreign Office sent this “rebuttal” round the lobby journal...

Interesting study of the revived Constitution / treaty out today from a group of Brussels think tanks. One thing we hadn't seen before...

Yup, if Broon wanted to give people an excuse to say that he dithers and is cowardly he couldn't have done it much better than by... dit...

Looks like there is going to be an interesting fight. From the Times: France set itself on collision course with Brussels yesterday as it a...

...from the head of policy at the environment agency - on his amazingly candid blog Bacon Butty

EU = shambles Also, when the "EU" force does finally get there are the Chadians really going to be fooled into thinking that this ...

The ODI look at the mess over what exactly the EU has agreed with African countries. Looks like little more than an agreement to come to an...

Hans Martin Tillack has won his case at the European Court of Human Rights, having been given extremely rough justice by the EU anti-fraud ...

Ha. As well as noting that the red lines are not met, the European Scrutiny Committee have put the Constitutional Treaty under their scrutin...

The EUobserver reports that EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has announced plans to further harmonise rules on the processing of asyl...

The rows over Party funding and missing data CDs may blow over fairly soon if fortune starts to favour Gordon Brown – although this is by no...

The lost data disks have done nothing to make the idea of ID cards more popular... Presumably we can look forwards to a similar spraying aro...

...You can't handle the truth. From PA: Europe's agriculture Commissioner lost her cool this afternoon over claims that EU farm subs...

His speech is up on PA - and it appears to be lots and lots of yada yada held loosely together with the rather threadbare idea that the EU -...

George Parker argues on his blog that "Mr Brown has a golden opportunity to lead in Europe along with likeminded allies like Nicolas S...

There's some fabulously cynical stuff in this discusssion paper on the Constitution from the EU's "Bureau of European Policy A...

So many politicians seem to be banging on about referendums and people power at the moment. But curiously none of them seem keen on a refere...

Standard europhile narrative: "Yes... but we never really get outvoted... after all, when does the EU really force us to do anything we...

According to the Record the SNP have come out for a referendum on the EU Constitution. SNP MP Angus Robertson said: "We'll trust t...

In the House of Commons yesterday Frank Dobson MP raised the "injustice" done to one of his constituents, Joseph Mendy, under the...

The Economist blog picks up on yet another example of the appalling mindset of the European political class. Meanwhile Lindsay Appleby at ...

David Miliband banging on about his admiration for "bottom up democracy". Isn't he forgetting something?

...according to David Miliband .

A bit of off-site blogging from Neil over at the Coffee House.