Lib Dem MEP Bill Newton-Dunn is calling for the EU to fund the search for aliens. He said: "It would be fun putting down an amendment i...

Anand Menon has an excellent essay in European Voice dismissing the "preposterous argument" that the Lisbon Treaty would have hel...

The details are over at Gawain Towler's (now ex) blog. They don't like to be mocked.

Every crisis is an opportunity for the those who believe in the project of "ever closer union". So it's no surprise to see in ...

Some more developments on Ethan Winner, the PR hit-man hired by the Commission to set up a "crisis communications" unit to promot...

The French EU Presidency is jumping on sport as a way to promote the EU. Paris is organising a major public event for 5 October, during whic...

MEPs are to investigate claims that Libertas, the Irish group that campaigned successfully against the Lisbon Treaty, is some sort of CIA-b...

Ever wondered who you would turn to if your company made the rattly bit on the Challenger space shuttle before it blew up? Or was the owner ...

On their countdown to 'Brown's big apology' , expected tomorrow, the Conservatives have finally arrived at the PM's failure...

Detached MEP Richard Corbett has found “unusual entertainment values” in a Lords report on the future of the EU’s regional policy (also kn...

Former Europe Minister Denis MacShane has reacted to Stuart Wheeler’s call today for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. MacShane said a refe...

The Economist blog picks up on the news that Norway will donate $1 billion between now and 2015 to a new Amazon protection fund set up by B...

The word from Bournemouth is that the Lib Dems are going all out to soften Vince Cable’s apparent U-turn on the euro. Ed Davey has been tryi...

The UK Government seems a bit stressed about the forthcoming directive on maternity leave. There is a story about it on EUobserver , but it ...

Gunther Verheugen had some interesting things to say in his press conference at the European Institute of Public Administration He said the ...

Nick Clegg strikes a slightly different tone than Cable. PA reports that; "Our position on the euro is absolutely unchanged," Mr C...

The Observer reports that the Lib Dems are planning to drop or downplay their historic commitment to joining the euro. Vince Cable seems to ...

Apparently, they mean business, according to Ben Brogan . Amongst (many) other things, a new Labour leader might take a different attitude t...

The European Parliament has voted for a report , drawn up by Lena Ek, which suggests that shipping should be included in the EU ETS. The UK...

The Irish Government's big poll is finally out, and they say that the only reason people voted no is because they are a bunch of ungrat...

The NHS European Office has recently been established to represent the NHS organisations in England to EU decision-makers. The NHS is one o...

Former German President Roman Herzog had an article in the FAZ earlier this week. Having nearly finished a translation of our own, it seems...

DJ Nozem has Joseph Daul (the Chairman of the EPP in the Parliament) bang to rights: Today: French MEP Joseph Daul argued that those in the...

Interesting ads in various papers today: Not quite sure who these guys are - http://sosgeorgia.org/ - but it seems to be quite professional...

The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation is a great outfit, which - amongst other things - tries to keeps tabs on Brussels regulatio...

A new Brussels campaign: " Send2women " calls for the new jobs which will be set up by the Lisbon Treaty (er...?) to be given to w...

Yesterday the Sunday Times ran a story under the under the headline "Mandelson official in cash for secrets row". They reported ...

At the Global Vision/Telegraph conference this morning Valery Giscard d’Estaing outlined his idea for the UK to have “special status” in th...

The EU now spends a billion euros a year on pensions for its staff? It's on page 27 of the budget .

Interesting - the government's Migration Advisory Committee are running a consultation on whether the UK should renew or abolish its lab...