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Tony Blair devouts much more space in his prime ministerial memoir to New Labour, Northern Ireland, the 2012 Olympics, Iraq and terrorism than to the EU. We distil the EU...

Stephen Wall, a former adviser to Tony Blair, on why having a high-profile personality as European Council president is not necessarily a good idea. One of the architects of...

The UK's relationship with the EU has changed. The G20 summit on 2 April brought to the fore – and produced decisions on – a range of issues that European Voice and...

Gordon Brown has improved his image in Europe. If any good comes out of the global financial crisis, it could be to bind the UK more closely to the European Union. Gordon...

Can Jon Cunliffe, Gordon Brown's Europe adviser, succeed as a one-man show? During his long wait at the Treasury to become UK prime minister, Gordon Brown came to value two...

Stephen Wall, a man with the ear of three UK premiers, by turn attacks and defends British attitudes towards the EU while arguing that the UK can now feel “very...

Kirsty Hughes takes a look at the UK's relationship with the EU now that Gordon Brown has taken over the reins at 10 Downing Street. In the Eurostar lounge at Brussels' Gare...

The British Foreign Office is reclaiming one of its own from a position of influence in the European Commission. Alex Ellis, a member of the private office of José...

The ghost of Gordon Brown took human form at the European Council in the shape of Jon Cunliffe. Until very recently, Cunliffe was the second most senior official at the UK...

Most of the well-earned criticism directed at Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, the leading candidates in France's presidential elections, not least from this...

True to form, French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy had an electrifying impact in Brussels in early September when he outlined his vision for ending the impasse on the...

So now we know: British voters will have to choose between David Cameron and Gordon Brown to lead the country after the next general election. At least, they will if Cameron...

The creation of an inner core of EU states along the lines proposed by France's presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy will not work, says a veteran observer of the EU...

The winds of change are whistling through Brussels. Modernisation and reform, those watchwords of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have now become the mantra of the institutions...

Rytis Martikonis is the new permanent representative of Lithuania to the EU. The 38-year old Martikonis was previously ambassador to the EU's Political and Security...

VIEWED from Brussels, the death of Pope John Paul II underlines some differences between the UK and its neighbours. Those differences have had a lasting effect on Britain's...

THE comments of retired diplomats can be very undiplomatic. The former British High Commissioner in India, Sir David Gore-Booth, was asked this week on BBC radio to explain...

I was shocked to learn of the sudden death of Antti Satuli, the former Finnish Permanent Representative. Sir Stephen Wall's tribute to him in European Voice (Letters, 30...

ANTTI Satuli, the former Finnish permanent representative to the European Union, who recently died, has been hailed as one of the Union's “unsung heroes” by Sir Stephen...

A remarkable truce broke out in Europe's language wars last week, despite the Portuguese presidency's failure to persuade EU governments to restrict the Intergovernmental...