A recent Eurobarometer poll has found that the majority of Spaniards, a sizeable 54 percent, believe that “without the euro, with the peseta...

There has been some confusion surrounding a story in Monday's Telegraph . The headline, which reads "EU's secret £400m for ...

Home Secretary Theresa May has just announced to the House of Commons that the UK has decided to opt in to negotiations on the European Inve...

A poll is currently being conducted to vote for the UK ’s top political blogs. If you want to have your say, all you need to do is to rank ...

Good blog post we've just noticed from Ed West on the Telegraph website here . He takes issue with former Labour Europe Minister Denis ...

We have just come across this rather amusing snippet from Labour leadership contender Ed Balls who, we learn via the Today programme , singl...

We have looked before at the interesting report from ING on how much a eurozone break-up would cost, arguing that any such estimate must be...

A great report on EUobserver today features some very revealing comments by a, disappointingly, anonymous EU official about the "mushro...

The public affairs firm Waggener Edstrom issued their first ever study of the influence of EU affairs blogs yesterday, ranking the Open Eur...

An article in yesterday’s Telegraph celebrated the ‘victory’ of George Osborne, who, it claimed, secured an agreement at yesterday’s ECOFIN...

The phrase "we are where we are" was oft repeated in this evening’s debate in the House of Commons – but sadly for many MPs it see...

The new Slovakian government is not bowing to pressure over its refusal to sign off on the eurozone bailout package. After a meeting with Eu...

Relief for the recent debt troubles of the eurozone has come in unexpected form this week, with three of the countries using the single cur...

A first attempt (to our knowledge at least) at quantifying the cost of a possible break-up of the eurozone has been made by Dutch bank ING ...

Jean De Ruyt, head of the Belgian permanent representation to the EU, has ruffled a few feathers in the European Parliament, marking a more ...

We've asked this question several times before, but the German think-tank Centrum für Europäische Politik has now also produced a very...

We take a look at this question over at EUobserver .

The front page of today's FT sported the headline, " Markets plunge on ECB loan fears ", with €442bn worth of European Central...

Yes, it's that time of year again: the European Parliament has announced its ten nominations to receive the prestigious European Parliam...

Those who worried that the Lisbon Treaty and the creation of a permanent EU president would sideline the rotating presidency held by nationa...

While today's emergency budget in the UK provided many talking points for the media at large – it also provided new information for tho...

Listening to EU leaders ' calls for "economic governance", or gouvernement économique in French, you'd be forgiven to dr...

This afternoon Commission President Barroso, speaking at the European University Institute in Florence, sent a reminder to the UK’s Coalitio...

"After a semester of emergency summits, this Thursday the EU aspired to hold the most boring European Council possible: discussing no m...

One of the more interesting aspects of EU politics at the moment is the crumbling Franco-German axis. The frictions between Nicolas Sarkozy ...

David Cameron has today participated in his first EU summit and has secured a preliminary assurance (assurances are never quite for certain ...

Two weeks ago, in Merida (Spain), the UK’s new Agriculture Minister Caroline Spelman called for “reduction and re-orientation” of EU Common...

Newsnight featured the first televised hustings for the Labour leadership candidates last night - and it now turns out that none of them we...

There is an interesting new poll in Le Monde today, showing that 62% of French people think that having the euro has aggravated the economi...

The winning party in the Dutch elections , the VVD, has some interesting things to say about the EU on its website . Its leader, Mark Rutte ...