In an interview in today's FT , Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is raising the stakes in the talks on a  'banking union...

Open Europe's Christopher Howarth has written the following article for Conservative Home : Growing public frustration with the costs o...

Well, that was the line that Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos was spinning yesterday. Sorry Luis, this is essentially a Spanish res...

The eurozone crisis alone is complicated enough. Add in UK domestic politics and calls for a referendum on EU membership, and this stuff b...

At the beginning of April, we published a briefing predicting that Spanish banks were heading for a eurozone bailout - hoping that we wou...

In today's Telegraph, we argue : Whatever the future of the single currency – and the entire European project – it will largely be...

In City AM today we lay out our thoughts on the latest plan to save the eurozone - a 'banking union'. Although the plan has some me...

As leading UK politicians and commentators urge eurozone countries, above all Germany to take the plunge into a fully fledges fiscal and eco...

Today we published our long anticipated report breaking down the EU budget line by line and putting together our alternative that would...

Over the weekend, we published a new briefing looking at the implications and likelihood of a Greek exit from the euro. We argued that an i...

After a fairly long absence, Silvio Berlusconi is back on our blog. And he hasn't lost his provocative touch. Speaking at a meeting of...

As we've noted before , the Germans take privacy and civil liberties seriously, and have refused to implement the EU's Data Retent...

What's the best way to stop a bank run? Well, ask Bankia. According to Spanish business daily Cinco Días , The Spanish bank - which i...

In today's City AM, we argue : Beyond the troubled banking sector, there is another potential problem on the Spanish horizon that co...

Things are looking sticky in Spain. Firstly, the Spanish government announced a bail out of Bankia to the tune of €19bn in addition to ...

UK Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has just been on the BBC's Today Programme, taking a major swipe at those calling for an in/out refere...

Some interesting opinion polls from the heart of the eurozone from the last couple of days: In Greece, a series of polls shows momentum...

The key trend in Greek opinion polls holds steady: voters back anti-austerity parties in great numbers but  remain committed to staying i...

Update 1.45: It looks like Trittin has performed one of the fastest and sharpest u-turns of recent times, as he is quoted by Reuters earl...

Very little came out of yesterday's informal EU summit, but here's what EU leaders had for dinner ( courtesy of La Stampa 's ...

Angela Merkel has grounds to be glum Most recent headlines concerning opposition to Merkel’s eurozone policies have focused on the anti-...

The 'growth dinner' of EU leaders is about to start. No big decisions are expected (this is a meeting of EU leaders after all) but...