According to the Times' cracking Red Box blog: Labour are searching for an idea, any idea, to get them out of their current malaise and...

As Richard North and others have pointed out, the UK Government often scrambles to put EU legislation into practice before it is even agree...

...to say that Sarkozy is going to be a massive disappointment as French President? Watching the footage of him on Newsnight last night - to...

From the FT yesterday: “No one understands the institutions and no one’s interested. No one understands anything, not even me.” Says... the...

It looks like we might have been on to something with our earlier post on Harman's plans for positive discrimination. From PA today: UK...

From Euractiv In the aftermath of the Irish 'no' to the Lisbon Treaty, European institutions are yet again confronted with their fai...

From the FT: Mr Sarkozy said he would not accept the loss of 100,000 jobs that would result from a trade deal being backed by Peter Mandelso...

Harry Truman said that "the best threat is a vague threat". It's also true that the best horror films are the ones where you d...

Blimey. There is a very important poll result in the Commission's new Eurobarometer poll which has been completely overlooked amid the f...

Intriguing comments from Sarko on AFP : "There have been errors in the way that Europe has been built," Sarkozy acknowledged durin...

Around the EU quarter in Brussels there seems to be a lot of building work going on. Firstly there is a big office block being torn down bet...

versus According to RTE Irish no campaigners are planning to protest against Nicolas Sarkozy when you goes to Ireland on 11 July to slap B...

The Tories are trying to get their hands on the minutes of the Coreper meetings in which the Perm Reps discussed setting up the EU diplomati...

We did promise a post on this. To cut a long story short there will be no problem in terms of positive discrimination in employment. Articl...

It looks like there will be a new round of rows between the EU and the mobile phone companies over the EU's plans to further regulate pr...

Quite an amusing piece by Richard Corbett : Following the Tory expense scandal that accounted for their leader Giles Chichester and chief wh...

Under this slightly dreary title the Commission is planning to propose a whole bunch of new social legislation next Wednesday. Barroso is no...

Aparrently the French are going to propose a " European Citizen Card " Faced with a lack of coordination between member states...

At first we thought this was a map of attitudes to the EU.... It certainly looks about right: Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Denmark and the Nethe...

German TV channel RTL have done a great feature on corruption in the European Parliament. (Hat tip: EUreferendum and EU corruption ) When ...

The Department of Education "Children, Schools and Families" has taken to flying the EU flag over its Westminster HQ. We can'...

Hopeless MEP Richard Corbett continues to struggle with the Irish no vote on his blog ( no comments please). He writeth: Suppose the futur...

People used to think that Health was one of the few remaining areas where the EU didn't have much control. Think again. The NHS Confede...

Says France's Europe minister, Jean-Pierre Jouyet. EU Observer reports that Jouyet thinks that the Irish no vote was masterminded by si...

Some people will excuse the most disastrous policy failures - as long as the "intentions" behind the policy were good. They will e...

The Swedish Council on Legislation (Lagrådet) – the Swedish expert body on constitutional matters - was commissioned by the Swedish governme...

For reasons best known to themselves, the curious Finnish magazine "Eurometri" decided to take a punt on the result of the Irish r...

This " Friends of Europe " briefing paper came out on the day of the Irish referendum. Its all about who is going to have which of...

We hate to say it, because he has spent a long time in the belly of the beast, and knows it well - but we think Dan Hannan is wrong about th...

Says Gene Kerrigan in the Irish Independent. He didn't have to wait long. In the selfsame paper we have this garbage . UKIP, Le Pen an...