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French MEP has had his share of run-ins with senior politicians. Alain Lamassoure has been a minister for European affairs, can justifiably claim to be the lead author of...

Unoccupied Britain would do well to reflect on occupied Britain before talking about others' wartime history. Tweak history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin...

David Cameron's decision could cost his party dear. The naivety of the UK Conservative Party to absent itself from major EU party politics reinforces the points

Jacek Rostowski's eurozone ambitions. Jacek Rostowski, Poland's minister of finance, has long been one of the euro's most passionate enthusiasts. After devoting much of his...

Politicians are blotting out the promised dawn of true public-service broadcasting in central and eastern Europe. In the early 2000s, political elites in central and eastern...

“The capitalism of the speculators will end up killing the capitalism of the entrepreneurs.”Jean-Pierre Jouyet, France's Europe minister, on the need for stronger...

The gloomy story of east European politics goes like this. Politicians are out of touch and voters do not care; outside pressure can be safely ignored; reform stalls or goes...

After the election as prime minister two years ago of the Kaczynski Brother – the one without cat hairs on his suit – two million young Poles voted with their feet, going...

Ministers and diplomats shook their heads in disbelief last week after a symbolic move to establish a European day against the death penalty was stopped abruptly in its...

“I am for a Europe that protects, but not for a protectionist Europe.” José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, after talks with French President...

Ever since they came to power almost a year ago, Poland's ruling twins, the Kaczynski brothers, and their right-of-centre Law and Justice party have been causing a stir both...

For the second time in two months, a newly elected prime minister in a member state which joined the EU in 2004 has brought openly nationalist and xenophobic parties into the...

Polish Defence Minister Radek Sikorski's provocative comparison of the Baltic pipeline project to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact drew blood - with both the European Commission...

The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether anti-discrimination laws are being correctly implemented in the EU's 25 member states. Letters seeking...

Leading Eurosceptic MEP Jan Zahradil has said British-led attempts to form a new centre-right group in the European Parliament would have to achieve significant mass in...

In Brussels last week, a gushing Commission President José Manuel Barroso said that he was in no doubt that his guest, the new Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz...

Amid market jitters over the business credentials of Poland's new government, the World Bank this week warned that continued high levels of unemployment in Eastern and...

They may be themselves both on the right of the political spectrum, but ultimately the votes that truly counted for the two candidates for the Polish presidency on 23 October...

Small, precocious and odious is a description often applied to child actors. Four decades ago, Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw were angelic teenage...

The European Parliament is barely one year through its five-year term, but there are several among its 732 members who hope not to see another year out. They harbour...