Open Europe has today published a list of the top 100 most costly EU regulations , detailing the annual cost of the laws, the cumulative co...

As 2009 draws to a close, Open Europe today looks ahead to 2010 and what the EU has in store. From 1 January 2010, Spain takes over the six-...

Amid all thee excitement over the EU bureaucrats' demands for an inflation-busting 3.7% payrise smack in the middle of the worst recessi...

There has been no shortage of stories recently about the troubles looming in Eurozone countries Greece and Spain. These problems have now pr...

As national ministers meet this week in Copenhagen to discuss a new climate change deal, Open Europe has found that under the EU's Emiss...

Last week, we were told by journalists that Dirk Ahner, the Commission's Director-General for regional policy, had apparently sent a let...

Foreign Secretary David Miliband appeared before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee this afternoon to discuss development...

In his PBR today Alistair Darling has announced a public sector pay freeze for 4 million UK workers, including vital frontline staff such as...

Today, a campaign to 'save herbal medicine' was launched. Campaigners are calling on the Government to prevent herbal medicines dis...

Yesterday saw the last debate on European Affairs in the House of Commons before the next General Election, and by the look of it it was, as...

This won't be news to most people, but Members of the European Parliament get up to a great deal of stuff that goes pretty much complete...

Via the very useful Euractiv we learn that, now that the Lisbon Treaty is in force and the EU has the power to legislate on sport, the Euro...

Following the revelation last week that 38,000 civil servants working for the European Commission are in line for an inflation-busting 3.7%...

New EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton has faced MEPs today for an informal grilling. It is not her official European Parliament confirmat...

Now that the Lisbon Treaty is safely in force (as of yesterday) the Lib Dems have predictably abandoned their support for a referendum on B...

Within the next year, the UK Government (whoever it will be) will find itself in crucial negotiations over the next EU 'financial framew...

In a speech yesterday David Cameron cited Open Europe's recent report which showed that the UK has spent more than £35 billion complyi...

Further to Friday's piece on the new EU Commission posts (described by Nicolas Sarkozy as a "victory" for France, who said t...

The Sunday Times reported on the huge payoffs the 13 EU Commissioners stepping down this week will walk away with, on top of the pretty hef...

The Commission has just published the new list of EU Commissioners and their responsibilities for the next five years. It looks like the pa...

Brussels is awash with rumour about who will get what in the newly appointed European Commission, due to be unveiled by President Barroso ne...

In a letter in the Evening Standard yesterday we argued that the EU's new President, Herman Van Rompuy, should not be underestimated. Ju...

Number 10 is facing growing accusations that Gordon Brown had 'sold Britain down the river' once again by giving up the influential...

Suddenly the illusive Belgian Prime Minister’s various books have taken on a new appeal and we’ve been down the library in an effort to lear...

Some light relief for Friday evening from Swedish blogger Johan Norberg: http://www.johannorberg.net/?page=displayblog&month=11&year...

See here for Open Europe's reaction to the outcome of yesterday's EU summit. According to the Telegraph the UK's Cathy Ashton ...

Rumours are swirling thick and fast from the EU summit in Brussels... Apparently Herman Van Rompuy is still leading the pack as the frontrun...

Open Europe's man in Brussels, Pieter Cleppe, has stirred up quite a storm over in Belgium with his revelations about the frontrunner fo...

The final countdown is on to the summit tomorrow that will decide who will be Europe's first permanent President and Foreign Minster, an...

There's some interesting background on the frontrunner for the Presidency of the European Union, Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy . Last wee...