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Controversies and problems in national politics have made this a particularly tough year for the Liberal group in the European Parliament. The Alliance of Liberals and...

CAP reform plans will be too late for the Poles. Dacian Ciolos's credentials for winning the support of Poland are impeccable. He is the first European commissioner for...

Did the Parliament pay over the odds for its building in Sofia? Yet another European Parliament spending decision  has come under scrutiny. A decision to pay €9...

The debt crisis will top the agenda. Efforts to ease the EU's economic troubles will top the to-do list of Hungary's six-month presidency agenda.

The experience of ex-communist countries in the 1990s undermines many of the claims now made about Greece. For anyone from the ex-communist world with a medium-term memory,...

The Parliament does its bit to ease the economic crisis. The official explanation for why the European Parliament is budgeting for an extra 150 staff  – 75 for the...

Political scientists forecast Socialist gains but EPP-ED staying as biggest group. The next European Parliament will lean slightly more to the left, but the centre-right...

EU leaders need to manage expectations better.

Extension of rules to all consumer goods under scrutiny; MEPs considering blocking planned light-bulb ban. The Parliament's environment committee will today vote on laws to...

An advertisement in the climate change special report last week (22-28 November) wrongly described French MEP Anne Laperrouze as of the EPP-ED Group. She is a member of the...

Not a good week for Graham Watson, leader of the ALDE group in the European Parliament. The Romanian liberals lost two seats in the European Parliament elections on Sunday,...

The leadership of an international organisation is up for grabs, but does anyone want it?The Stability Pact for South East Europe has been in a permanent state of adolescence...

The French government eased restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian workers as the two countries became EU members. Bulgarians and Romanians are now able to take jobs in...

You wrote that “Romanian and Bulgarians will not be able to work legally in Spain until 2009” (News in Brief, 2-8 November). Please note that it is somewhat exaggerated...

ROMANIA'S presidential and parliamentary elections next month are prompting serious concern among EU politicians. This is not due to any wavering in the country's commitment...

Asia has tigers, I mused, so eastern Europe has...lynxes! That was a handy way of illustrating an interesting bit of research by some Austrian economists (at the Vienna...

BALKAN green activists have launched a campaign for greater transparency in the EU-led programme seeking to reinvigorate the war-shattered region. They are angry that they...

WITH the European Commission attacking practices ranging from centuries-old banking laws to new ecologically-motivated road levies, Austrian love for the Union is currently...