Christmas is approaching and, in that spirit, José Barroso, the President of the European Commission, has written himself a wish list of ...

Yesterday we put out a flash analysis looking at the latest Greek deal and the prospect of Greek bond buyback. One of the many issues with ...

Its been a busy few days on the EU budget front with the inconclusive EU leaders’ summit on the EU’s long term budget, and the Commission...

Early on Tuesday morning the eurozone and the IMF reached an agreement which has been widely billed as their most comprehensive package to a...

In  an interview on Italian TV on his new book, 'Democracy in Europe', co-authored together with French MEP Sylvie Goulard, Itali...

Following the collapse of talks on the draft 2013 EU budget (this was prior to last week's talks on the long-term EU budget), the Europ...

It does not happen very often, but the final result of yesterday's Catalan elections was almost completely unpredicted by polling. Art...

On his Telegraph blog Open Europe's Mats Persson analyses the breakdown of EU budget talks, see below for the full piece: As predic...

We’ve got our hands on a leaked copy of the latest HermanVan Rompuy (HvR) proposal for the EU budget ( see here for the full doc ). The hea...

With trouble flaring up in Greece once more and the backstop of the ECB’s bond-buying (OMT) in place, Spain has slipped off the radar sligh...

This EU budget stuff can come across as pretty dull and confusing. To lighten things up a bit, we will turn to the universal language of ...

We have a letter in the FT today pointing out that the UK would not be the biggest loser if there is no positive outcome from the talks on ...

Confused by the various figures flying around in the EU budget talks? When is a freeze a freeze and not an increase etc? Don’t feel ba...

Here's an update of Open Europe's 'veto count' : ten EU member states (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Portugal, Latvia...

On his Telegraph blog , Mats Persson argues: Take a deep breath. Britain is not about to get completely stuffed in Europe. The FT ran a...

Ahead of today’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers we thought we’d (finally) get round to posting some of our thoughts on the last wee...