Here's an example of some good old EU spin for you: The European Commission today announced the results from the latest Eurobarometer po...

Do you remember all that talk about how national parliaments would be strenghtened under the Lisbon Treaty (something which the pro-Lisbon c...

Over the last few days a story first picked up on EUobserver , then Austrian daily Wirtschafts Blatt and again today on Euractiv looks at ...

On Friday, the Commission opened up a new fund of €1 million for think tanks and NGOs to further research how to "promote active Europe...

A lot of attention has been paid in recent weeks to the European Parliament-funded virtual reality experience, Citzalia , which recreates li...

A famous Chinese proverb says: "When the finger points at the moon, the foolish man looks at the finger". We don't know if EU ...

An interesting article on Spanish website Cotizalia . It looks at recent Eurostat data, which shows that, since the euro came into force, S...

Looks like U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with his "European counterparts" (at least in terms of pay , they're on par),...

Euractiv has returned from its summer break with a rather good, albeit concerning, story about concerns over German EU Energy Commissioner ...

The eurozone is experiencing some economic growth again. Data published the other day by Eurostat shows that eurozone GDP expanded by 1% in...

The media reported last week that EU member states have agreed to push for €3.6 billion worth of "cuts" to the EU budget for 2011...

In global affairs, the EU seems to suffer from a peculiar lack of confidence, stemming from its all too frequent failure to come up with any...

The Slovakian Parliament has overturned the decision by the country's previous government to help fund the €110bn eurozone bailout of ...

EU Commissioner Lewandowski hasn't exactly hit a home run with his comments about the Commission's forthcoming proposals for an EU ...

Today's FT Deutschland splash reveals that EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski will in September table different options for in...

The Government has today announced that it is to introduce a one-in, one-out system of regulation whereby "When Ministers seek to intr...

We have looked extensively at the EU's draconian Working Time Directive in the past (see here , here , here , here , here , and here f...

Frits Bolkestein, the former Commissioner for the Internal Market and former leader of the Dutch liberals, isn't shying away from frank ...

The new Hungarian government, and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has decided it's had enough of being dictated to by the EU and the I...

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...