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The UK's business secretary is not afraid to take on the City. Late on 10 May 2010, Liberal Democrat members of the UK's parliament and party officials met to decide whether...

Survey shows a rise in the number of people who have a negative view of the institution. The latest public opinion survey commissioned for the European Parliament has...

A row over Scotland's place in the United Kingdom has implications for the EU, too. When, last December, David Cameron played the UK's veto against the EU's fiscal-reform...

Whose fault it is that the European commissioners in Barroso II are performing below both hope and expectation? Could it be that our expectations of the European Commission...

Van Rompuy should not be blamed for the failings of the last EU summit. I was surprised to read the editorial in your 21 December-4 January edition (“The EU was poorly led...

Nicolas Sarkozy says he hopes other EU member states will follow France's lead; Sarkozy and Merkel discuss eurozone crisis. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, today said...

Deep divisions emerged during Polish presidency. Failure at the border Poland left on the outside as eurozone undergoes a transformation Clashes with Green...

Twice in the past, a British ‘No' has pushed European monetary union forward. At the European Union summit on 8-9 December, British Prime Minister David Cameron vented...

Conference call to be held this afternoon. The European Union's 27 finance ministers will hold a conference call this afternoon (19 December) to discuss additional...

EPP seeks to minimise disruption and S&D could lose two vice-presidential posts. Strasbourg notebook Parliament briefing MEPs spent much of their week in Strasbourg...

Last week's European Council was supposed to save the eurozone. It made things much, much worse. Months, if not years, will be needed to get a true perspective on last week's...

Repercussions are likely to extend beyond the immediate eurozone crisis. The United Kingdom's refusal to participate with the other member states of the European Union in...

Cameron blocked plans for treaty change; Merkel ‘satisfied' with inter-governmental deal. Signing up or staying out Cameron's stance leaves UK...

Brok, Verhofstadt and Italy's Gaultieri to represent Parliament In working group The European Parliament today chose three MEPs to join a group that will draft a ‘fiscal...

Distance lends enchantment to the view, or so the poet said. But the hard prosaic truth is that the more distance we have on the outcome of last week's negotiations at the...

European Commission president tells MEPs that David Cameron's demands put the single market 'at risk'. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission,...

Commissioner launches six-pack of financial regulation, and says he 'deeply regrets' David Cameron's decision at last week's summit. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for...

UK deputy prime minister "bitterly disappointed" by UK decision, pledges to work to defend British interests. Nick Clegg, the UK's deputy prime minister and leader of the...

Germany says the treaty would have “everything of substance” needed to protect the euro in the long term. Eurozone countries are aiming to finalise by March a new treaty...

UK vetoes changes to Lisbon treaty; group of 23 countries sign up to intergovernmental treaty. David Cameron, the UK's prime minister, has vetoed plans to change the EU's...