(z) Zoonabar
Alistair Darling must be confused this morning. Having thrown a strop at Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to appoint Michel Barnier as EU commissioner for the Single Market, he cited the fact that the city must …

Now that the controversy surrounding the Conservative party and the Lisbon treaty has temporarily abated, it might be useful to reflect on the reasons why the Tory eurosceptics and their allies in …

(c) rockcohen
“Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?”  Ever since Henry Kissinger – I must add allegedly- famously quipped this whilst Secretary of State for the US, the EU has been …

(c) teamstickergiant
More and more people seem to be unhappy with Obama and his performance since he was invested last year. People are criticizing his choice of healthcare reforms, the loss of two governor’s races in …

“Iran is not your typical adversary in the military sense. Its available arsenal doesn’t simply include conventional weapons. Rather it is their unprecedented influence in post-Saddam Iraq, their domination of the fragile Afghan economy and their support for Hezbollah in Lebanon that, combined with their nuclear programme, pose such a serious threat to the regional interests of the United States and, perhaps most notably, Israel.”

(c) Xaf
The news this week that Czech President Václav Klaus would be dropping his opposition to the Lisbon Treaty means that the way is now clear for the Treaty to come into force. It has …

When the historians come to write the obituary of the outgoing Labour government what will they say was the greatest missed opportunity of their 13 year reign? The failure to overturn decades of British hostility to the EU.

(c) giladr
‘You know the thing about the Russians?’ asked a taxi driver who was running me, somewhat erratically, from one depressed, run-down, post industrial Polish town to another, ‘They did something that nobody else had …

(C) mia!
About a month ago, almost one million people nationwide decided that the BNP were the party who best represented their views. The party who want everyone with an ethnic background to get back to …

(c) dustydavidson
With the results of the latest European elections being slightly disappointing, and turnout reaching a new low in some countries (such as the UK with 34.48% or 28.22% in the Czech Republic) it’s possible …

(c) freshwater2006
Last Sunday, a day after the free world celebrated the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Fascism, the British National Party won its first seats in the European Parliament. While the thought of Nick …

In just four short weeks it will be time to vote for a brand new European Parliament.
The expectation across the country is that the turnout is going to be incredibly low. This is why The …

(c) editor_tupp
Ireland’s economy is in trouble. By the end of 2010 it will have shrunk by a staggering 12% in what experts are calling “the biggest contraction of an industrialised country since the Great Depression”. …

(c) dustydavidson
It hardly feels like election season, but in just four weeks we will be voting for members of the European Parliament, along with thousands of local councillors across the UK.
The 4th June will pass …