The Independent reports that Former French President and architect of the EU Constitution Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is having difficulty...

Nick Witney, the former Head of the European Defence Agency, has published an interesting report for the European Council on Foreign Relat...

Most news reports on the breakdown of Doha have focussed on the issue of so-called safeguard mechanisms as an explanation for failure. Th...

The Irish government has had a lot to say this weekend about Open Europe and our poll questions, but nothing at all to say about the results...

We've commissioned the leading Irish pollsters Red C to look at how people in Ireland feel about the idea of a second referendum It look...

Perhaps the next Labour leader will take a different line on Europe now that Brown is so clearly leaving... Harsh? Premature? Perhaps. # B...

Hard... to... say this... but George Monbiot is right. (It had to happen eventually) He points out: A fair account of our carbon emissions w...

According to a Parliamentary Answer: Bob Ainsworth Minister of State (Armed Forces) The EU environmental regulation that places specific re...

The Times: Margaret Beckett tipped for a Cabinet comeback Perhaps not to the Foreign Office, we suspect. Some highlights from the crazy yea...

from Peter Skinner MEP. On his website page "HOW EUROPE HELPS" Apparently "There are no items to display" Cheers for the...

Washington blogger and think-tanker Steve Clemons notes that Barack Obama will not be visiting Brussels on his tour of Europe . He reckon...

Excellent piece on AFP today, describing how Peter Mandelson attempted to spin his way out of the embarrassing situation of the EU not of...

From PA we learn that Sarkozy has managed to fit a hair between the concept of a "referendum" and "giving people the opportun...

Amusing analysis from the Irish Sunday Independent : After the Lisbon Treaty was voted down, by the only electorate in Europe allowed vote o...

Disconcerting news from Agence Europe : apparently the French EU Presidency are planning to create a “University of Europe” in... you guesse...

Rossa Fanning, Lawyer and Lecturer at University College Dublin makes a good argument in an interview with French daily Libération today: “...

PA informs us that following the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the UK, the implementing legislation will be printed... on goats...

The polls clearly show that the French people regret the decision they made last year. They didn't know what they were doing... They di...

Anand Menon opens his newish book on the EU with a quote from Lord Dilhorne, speaking in 1962: “I venture to suggest that the vast majority...

Having a look at the amazing Oxford archive of old Tory posters. It's fair to say that their line on the EU has moved on at least a bit...

A post on Irish Election notes that Europe and the referendum could become a big issue in the Austrian election in September. Could that t...

Here's a list of the Government's main negotiating objectives in Europe: (a) maintenance of the authority of national governments an...

Russia says Czech oil supply cut "not political" Ha! Those guys will say anything!

The europhiles are becoming increasingly unhinged as they seek new reasons to explain away the Irish no vote. This fella blames - amongst o...

Outrageous claims in the Indie : "Recent photos of the EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, looking remarkably fresh-faced have spar...

As is now traditional, France has adorned the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels with a bunch of stuff to mark their Presidency. The French...

Then ... "Galileo remains a civil programme under civil control. This has repeatedly been confirmed by the EU Transport Council; most ...

The torrent of anti-democratic vitriol continues to flow from the offices of the Irish Times. Today a piece by Ruth Barrington on "Was...

On " Europe's Tory nightmare " The Economists man in Brux writes: "federalists have their mirror-opposites in Britain. Eu...

Have stumbled upon this letter in the Telegraph from Lord Pearson - dated March 2005: (i.e. before the French and Dutch no votes) Sir - You...