Before yesterday’s European Council meeting, the European press were predicting that the Franco-German agreement made in Deauville might as ...

"I deplore this initiative. This letter is provocative and has clearly been written for reasons of domestic policy." - The careta...

Over at Conservative Home, we examine how David Cameron is getting on in Brussels - the performance so far is a mixed bag, but there's ...

European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, presented his imaginatively titled new book yesterday - "Inside the world of Herman Van...

Die Welt is reporting that Cameron has done a deal with Merkel on treaty change. The article notes that Merkel signed a letter penned by C...

The publication of our annual list of examples of EU waste seems to have become a much-anticipated occasion in Brussels. As L'Express r...

Over at the Spectator's Coffee House blog , we take a look at how David Cameron should approach today and tomorrow's EU summit - and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a tough cookie. Sandwiched between D eauville and tomorrow's EU Summit, Dr. Merkel took to the podiu...

Following the infamous quarrel over the Roma deportations, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding isn't exactly the French government...

The news in today's Guardian and Mail is that David Cameron is thinking of doing a deal on the proposed new EU treaty . The reports su...

The past week has seen the EU come under immense pressure, from press and politicians from across member states , as negotiations for 2011...

Hats off to the House of Commons. Earlier today it grasped the nettle and employed the Lisbon Treaty's 'yellow card' procedure f...

The excellent WSJ Real Time Brussels blog notes that EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski isn't entirely happy with the amount of ...

As we've noted before, Germany's attitude to the EU and the famous Franco-German alliance is changing (plug: we will be organising a...

We've said a thing or two in the past about the wonders of EU spin 'communication'. But the European Parliament's attemp...

We take another look at this question over on the Spectator's coffee house blog . With the risk of sounding repetitive, we argue, Rather...

As we anticipated in our previous post, it appears as if Germany has won French backing for a change to the EU treaties in return for great...

While hundreds of journalists from all over Europe descended on Luxembourg, hoping to find out what the future of EU economic governance hol...

It is hard to think of a better example of how not to run a large-scale infrastructure project than the EU's Galileo satellite system . ...

Conservative MEP Ashley Fox may have thought of a practical plan to reduce some of the ridiculous cost of the European Parliament's tra...

EU institutions and member states are warming up for the negotiations on the post-2013 EU budget, which are just around the corner. French M...

A new briefing note by the useful German think tank Centre for European Policy looks at the EU's proposed Deposit Guarantee Schemes Di...

Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker has revealed Europe's worst kept secret on the sidelines of the last IMF and World Bank meetings...

For quite some time, we have tried to highlight how the EU's new financial supervisors could eventually take on too much power for com...

It's back! The discussion about Treaty change, that is. As we've noted before , Germany continues to push for treaty change to allow...

A press release from the Conservative MEPs has just landed in our inbox heralding Struan Stevenson 's heroic defeat of the European Parl...

We've looked at this issue before , but the Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, yesterday supported its finance committee in protesting aga...

The Dutch Liberals and Christian Democrats yesterday presented their proposal for a coalition agreement, allowing the two parties to form a ...

Today's gloomy revelations from Ireland were followed by rather disturbing news from the Greek parliament. As part of a long-standing t...

These were the words of Vince Cable today, the first minister from the new Coalition Government to speak in the European Parliament. You can...