Open Europe's Christopher Howarth wrote the following article for Ireland's leading business paper the Sunday Business Post With...

National Parliaments' should be allowed to show the EU the red card This is an idea that's very close to our hearts - and an id...

The French media called it François Hollande's "grand oral exam". The French President has just held a big press conference ...

Now the Conservatives have published their EU Referendum Bill there only remains the small question of how it could become law. It will ...

It’s been pretty tough to follow where countries stand on the latest proposals for the EU’s Recovery and Resolution Directive , not least be...

With David Cameron away in the US, Nick Clegg took to the dispatch box for Prime Minister’s Questions today. Unsurprisingly, there was n...

David Cameron just sent out this note to Conservative members and activists: In January, I set out our party’s position on Europe. I made...

The Conservative Party has just published its EU Referendum Bill which would provide for a referendum before 31 December 2017. The Questi...

Open Europe’s chairman Lord Leach of Fairford has an op-ed in today's Times , where he argues : Fifteen years ago, when a handful of b...

It’s been a week of 'splits' over Europe and it looks like another one may be emerging – although this time in Germany. German F...

47 MPs have now put their name to an amendment to the Queen's Speech that begs "leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty f...

On top of the release of UK trade data, Germany has also put out its latest trade statistics . As this is Germany we're talking about, t...

The ONS has today released its latest monthly UK trade statistics . They show that despite growing UK trade and a slight narrowing of the tr...

Unlikely to care if her speech is amended - but will anyone else? Politicians do not as a rule like other politicians amending their spe...

As we noted recently with the exclusive release of  internal documents on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), even amongst those who are...

We appreciate that Westminster and the media are occupied with the Queen's speech and internal tory divisions over Europe ( be them re...

The big political news of the day happens to be strongly EU related – former Chancellor Lord Lawson’s piece in the Times (£) in which he ...

The Times reports today on another round of exclusive documents leaked by Open Europe, this time regarding European Commission plans to reg...

We thought we’d revive an old Open Europe tradition today – Friday afternoons = German polling time. And we certainly have some interesti...

As expected the ECB announced it has cut its main interest rate by 0.25% to 0.5%. As we noted at length, this is likely to have little imp...

A Referendum Bill? Yesterday on BBC Radio 4's World at One , David Cameron was asked if he would consider " bringing forwar...

The ECB looks set to cut its main interest rate by 0.25% to 0.5% on Thursday (while keeping the deposit rate at 0% due to concerns about dis...