In a comment piece for Die Welt , Jörg Eigendorf has some well chosen words for Chancellor Angela Merkel. With regards to the “What happens ...

Adenauer is a name synonymous with the European project, owing to Konrad Adenauer, the German Chancellor from 1949 to 1963, one of the foun...

On the popular German TV show with Maybrit Illner on ZDF , Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former head of leading German Industry Federation Bundesver...

Things are getting really scary in Euroland. Fears of contagion are spreading like a rash, replicating the patterns preceding the bail-out o...

I am neither worried about the survival of the euro nor about the survival of the European Union. I am however concerned that in Germany, th...

Well, we're not quite there yet. But those who still think - and there are some - that reservations about the future of the euro is some...

We were reminded of this spectacularly inaccurate assessment the other day (from our "How the EU-elite got it wrong on the euro" ...

Commenting on the Irish bailout, Die Welt editor Dorothea Siems makes some very important points. She argues : The euro adventure stands th...

Open Europe has today published a briefing asking the simple question: will an Irish bail-out actually solve anything? A healthy Irish econ...

Presenters on Hungarian radio station NeoFM 's daily morning show, "Bumerang" , have joined the long line of people trying t...

Yesterday saw some interesting reactions from the German papers, in response to the increasingly likely Irish bail-out. A leader in Die Zeit...

Irish central bank governor, Patrick Honohan, said this morning that he expects Ireland to be given a "very substantal loan" f...

[Financial] aid isn't sufficient if a country's own correcting measures aren't tough enough. That's why Finland wants to int...

Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders today said that aid to Ireland is "inevitable", claiming that it's impossible for I...

After a tumultuous five-plus-months of discussions, EU negotiations over the 2011 budget broke down two days ago, leaving an array of despon...

Open Europe has just hosted a debate on the Coalition Government's proposed 'referendum lock' with Europe Minister David Lidingt...

“It is now becoming clear, that the Greeks cannot sufficiently keep to their plans for revenue, i.e. what comes in from taxes. Therefore, I ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has been speaking at her party's congress and, given the events in Ireland, the euro was a key theme of her spe...

The increasingly likely prospect of an Irish bailout is looming and that is also likely to have an impact on the UK. While the UK was not in...

Rumours that Ireland will soon be forced to seek a cash injection from the eurozone rescue package of no less than €80 billion have been den...

The Government has today tabled its " European Union Bill ", containing the so-called 'referendum lock' and 'sovereign...

Yep, you've guessed it, it's that time of year again. Today we've published yet another list of wasteful EU projects, the third...

This one is from back in August but still: Apparently, Peterborough City Council has lost out on £1,325 from the EU, meant to go towards a ...

In an interview with the FT, Nick Clegg today declared that the Coalition Government would not use the negotiations over a new EU treaty to ...

Following his defeat in the mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama has now announced that he will drop his plans for a cap and trade...

First the EU sets renewable energy targets that force member states to build thousands of wind turbines, then the Commission tells them how ...

Over on his blog, the WSJ's Iain Martin is today making clear what he thinks of Cameron's performance at the EU summit last week, a...

In Parliament this afternoon, David Cameron gave his statement on last week's EU summit, followed by questions from MPs. The debate was...

An interesting new paper by German think tank Centrum für Europäische Politik has listed "Five hard rules for a hard Euro". It su...

...according to an increasing number of citizens, the answer to that quesiton is "no". Handelsblatt today notes that trust in the...