Nigel Farage and Beppe Grillo (the 'Grillage People', as @Berlaymonster brilliantly renamed the duo) have just lost their group in ...

The first (and only) causality of the European Parliament hearings for Jean-Claude Juncker's new Commission so far, is Slovenia's ...

Edmund Stoiber presents his report Today saw the publication of the final report of the "High Level Group on Administrative Burden...

UPDATE (10:55am):  Catalan President Artur Mas has just been speaking to the press. His remarks were broadly in line with the blog analy...

Good news for EU reform keeps coming from Belgium. After the publication of the new coalition agreement, which we've analysed here ,...

The WSJ  reports today that Spain is using its dispute with the UK over Gibraltar to hold up/block the UK's re-entry into a number of ...

N-VA leader Bart De Wever and new PM Charles Michel After less than five months, a relatively short period by local sta...

Gone but not yet forgotten The European Parliament and the political machines that dominate it were, according to many, not supposed to ...

The final discussions and votes in the European Parliament's committees over the nominees for the new European Commission are currentl...

Hill's hearing was less of a duel than expected Following another long day of hearings the make-up of the Juncker Commission is beco...

Vice-President Commissioner Designate for Better Regulation Frans Timmerman's hearing at the European Parliament Conference of Preside...

It has been widely reported over the weekend that the European Commission (EC) is seriously considering rejecting France’s new budget propo...

Juncker and Schulz in happier times... The letter from European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz to European Commission President...

Justice Minister Chris Grayling has today announced that a new Conservative Government could pull Britain out of the European Court of Hu...

There is a select group of masochists out there (us included) who devote their time to studying the inner workings of the EU budget. Its a...

A couple of developments since we posted the original blog below. Importantly, the European Parliament’s Economics Committee failed to rea...

UPDATE:  The Prime Minister has now given his conference speech. This is the passage on EU migration: "Immediate access to our welfar...