After a surprisingly manic election night the focus in Germany now shifts to the tricky task of forming a government. As we noted yesterda...

See below for the preliminary results of the German elections in 2013. They'll be officially announced on 9 October, however no change i...

The first exit polls are in and it looks to be a very close run election. However, not at the top but at the bottom. ARD: CDU/CSU 42%, SPD...

Despite presenting a ubiquitous front on our blog, our team does often have varying views on the issues we cover. As on twitter, there has b...

How do we put this delicately...the Germans aren't exactly known for their sense of humour. Equally neither are politicians, other than ...

Our Nina Schick wrote this op-ed for today's City AM : For a vote touted as decisive to the future of the Eurozone, the German electio...

Three days ahead of the German election, Germany's anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschland is polling at 5%, according to the lates...

In the Dutch Parliament earlier, the VVD (the party of the Dutch PM) EU spokesman Mark Verheijen said he thought EU treaty change was “inev...

On the question of Europe, there is a painful gap between the German political elite and the public. As our recent YouGov Deutschland pol...

Our Director Mats Persson has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal , where he argues, A satirical cartoon in the Italian magazine L...

Maurizio Gasparri, a senior member of Silvio Berlusconi's PdL party and a Vice-President of the Italian Senate, yesterday launched one...

As we have noted in the past , it is possible that Germany’s anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschland,   has a wider support base than...

There is no doubt that Germany is strongly wedded to the idea of ‘more Europe’ -- at least rhetorically. But when it is boiled down specific...

Last Saturday was the tenth anniversary of the Swedish referendum on the euro, and our Director, Mats Persson, wrote this piece for the G...

With talk of the upcoming German elections dominating over the weekend, a potentially important yet subtle shift for post-German election p...

Yesterday’s Bavarian state elections saw a clear victory for the CSU, Merkel’s CDU sister party at the federal level, securing 47.7% of vote...

Back in the spring, we looked at who might be next in the line of eurozone bailout requests. It's now looking increasingly likely th...

Peer Steinbrück, the SPD’s Chancellor Candidate graces the front cover of today’s S üddeutsche Magazine unapologetically flicking the bird....

A quick update on Spanish house prices, given that the latest quarterly statistics were released this morning. As the graph highlights...

It seems to be a week for big legal opinions in the EU. We've had opinions on the FTT , the EU’s short selling regulation and now on ...

The UK has this morning been set on the path to an important victory at the European Court of Justice, after the Advocate General Niilo Jääs...

It’s that time of year again, when European Commission President José Manuel Barroso delivers his ‘State of the European Union’ speech , l...