The Guardian reported yesterday that Sky News has told its journalists not to re-tweet information from non-Sky Twitter users. That immediately sparked a barrage of criticism from Reuters, Charlie Beckett, GigaOM and lots of people on Twitter. But from a political perspective I can see why they’re doing it. I want to briefly address this

Open Europe responds to Barroso???s ???state of the European Union??? address

The new treaty on fiscal discipline cannot alone address the euro crisis and while there has been renewed talk of growth by EU leaders, current plans have proven "pitifully weak," says Carole Ulmer. More »

There a brand spanking new poll out today by the Washington Post and ABC News supposedly showing President Obama topping GOP front runner Mitt Romney nationally. It claims that 55% of the respondents dislike what they're hearing from the GOP candidates in general, that 57% approved of what they heard from President Obama's State of the Union address and that he tops Romney in a general e...

Restoring trust in banking depends on policymakers to establish a stable and sustainable new regulatory framework and by bankers themselves to address flawed past governance and management practices, writes Simon Lewis, CEO of the London-based association for financial markets in Europe (AFME). More »

The proposed fiscal compact treaty is redundant as it presents little improvement over the existing EU rules and does not address the financial markets' actual concerns over short and medium-term growth, argues Massimiliano Marcellino. More »

Labour leader Ed Miliband is giving a speech in Glasgow and is expected to address the issue of Scottish independence.

Today's libation comes straight from the 2012 presidential campaign of President Obama, now in full swing! On Tuesday night the President gave a campaign speech to the country that went by some other very official sounding name. I think he called it the State of the Union Address. In it he told the country all kinds of interesting things and made all kinds of great promises that made some of ...

The European Commission unveiled a new website yesterday (26 January) for the European Citizens' Initiative and detailed the procedure for their acceptance. While there are high hopes that the petitions will help address the European Union’s 'democratic deficit', not all member states have implemented the legislation and some fear the procedure will be too bureaucratic to live...

The Republicans may be getting much of the publicity at the moment - and given the nature of it, probably very much to the White House's satisfaction - but Obama's 'coming out fighting' State of the Union address seems to have hit a strong chord with the American public, if a CBS News poll is to be believed. They give him a 91% approval rating for the speech which several right-wing commentators a...