We haven't blogged on Spain for a bit, but a couple of interesting developments have caught our attention today. Spain will presumably...

Ahead of David Cameron's incredibly hyped speech, a bit of a foreign exchange side-debate has developed with some analysts suggesting...

As we argued here , though there has been quite a bit of noise from the business community over recent weeks, few interventions are actually...

"We are all with you" Le Monde's cartoonist left a clear image - France's President Hollande rushing off into the Mal...

A new Stern-RTL poll out yesterday, widely reported in the German media, has Angela Merkel’s CDU on 43%, and the SPD, the main oppositio...

 An emerging cross-party consensus on EU reform? On Europe, Labour doesn't exactly shy away from turning the debate into a discus...

The WTO and the OECD yesterday announced the release of a new set of trade data . This data tries to pin down the “value added” from trade r...

    Too often the UK's political discussion of the European Union is conducted by politicians, on all sides of the debate, whose...

Given all the talk about an EU referendum, with many on both sides attempting to pre-judge the outcome, we thought this letter by Nigel Smi...

On his Telegraph blog, Mats Persson argues : Ahead of this week’s EU speech by David Cameron, journalists are searching high and low f...

When it comes to Europe, the UK government can make your head spin. Cameron's EU speech is now officially scheduled for Friday 18th Ja...

In an interview with Estonian daily Postimees , the country's bow-tie wearing President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, said that he is oppose...

David Cameron, interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme , has given some more details about his forthcoming big EU speech to end all...

In his monthly press conference on the 10 January 2013 ECB President Mario Draghi struck a relatively upbeat tone on eurozone, in particu...

A month or so ago, David Cameron suggested , for the first time, that UK exit from the EU was "imaginable". Today, in an interview...

Interestingly, if today's report in the Sun is correct, David Cameron seems to have enlisted Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's su...

Silvio Berlusconi yesterday stepped up his anti-austerity rhetoric another notch. During a quite heated exchange with Italian journalist M...

Yesterday’s unemployment figures from Eurostat made a surprisingly big splash in the European press today. We say surprising since for an...

As we noted in this morning’s press summary , there have been some interesting developments with regards to the Greek banking sector. ...

Yesterday saw the publication of the Coalition's 'mid-term review', the aim of which was to "take stock of progress in i...

Not that we ever intended to wade into this debate, but how various separatist/independence discussions interact with the EU treaties has al...

Last month, the Economist used the Oscar-winning exhortation , "Run, Mario, run" to urge Mario Monti to "come out fighting...