EUobserver reports that the EU Commission is starting to take a clearer position on the EU Constitution as debate on the revival of the treaty starts to emerge. Communication Commissioner Margot Wallstrom said yesterday that "the Commission would not like to depart too much from the Constitutional Treaty", saying that the “core” of the current text should remain the “departure po...

The Telegraph reports that a group of Labour MPs led by Ian Davidson, MP for Glasgow South West, are preparing a 15-point plan to put to Gordon Brown calling for the blueprint of the revised EU Constitution to be radically amended. Among their likely demands will be the removal of the proposal to create a new EU Foreign Minister, a controversial idea also included in the original, rejected 2005 EU...

The Scottish Parliament yesterday voted for a UK-wide referendum on the revised EU Constitution, with Labour members abstaining on - rather than voting against - the proposal. The Sun notes "Their refusal to block the demand left the PM red-faced". Open Europe is quoted in the paper arguing that the vote was "a huge embarrassment for Gordon Brown on his own turf.

The British government is graciously allowing the proles in England and Wales to vote for police commissioners. We want the vote on the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that we were promised and we get a vote on changing the voting system from one undemocratic system to another, marginally less undemocratic system.  We want a vote on

So the news is just in, Vaclav Claus has signed the EU constitution and the conspirators of the European Union have pulled of the greatest anti-democratic coup since Hitler had the Reichestag burnt down. We have been cynically sold out by Labour who lied on their election manifesto and have insulted peoples intelligence with the weasel words on the Lisbon Treaty being something different. And let ...

Conservative Home has confirmed what we’ve been saying along – the Tories will not hold the referendum they promised on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution. Tim Montgomerie has tried to spin David Camoron’s treachery claiming that the last line of his cast-iron guarantee to hold a referendum means that no promise is being broken: No treaty should be

The prospect of a President Blair has reared its ugly head again over the last couple of weeks. As the EU Constitution edges ever closer to taking full effect (many parts of it have already been introduced) the talk has moved from if to when. Cue various politicians and political commentators telling us why we should or shouldn't accept Blair as EU President - as if we have any say in this wh...

The people of Ireland have been bullied, cheated and bribed into voting for the EU Constitution aka the Lisbon Treaty. Despite yesterday’s referendum being on exactly the same Treaty already rejected this year in Ireland, the Irish have been conned into believing the “guarantees” they have been given that the Treaty will be changed are legally

On Wednesday 9 September, Open Europe is hosting a lunchtime debate in Dublin on the topic of the Lisbon Treaty. Speakers include Gisela Stuart, Labour MP and former member of the European Convention which drew up the EU Constitution; Dr Jochen Bittner from German newspaper Die Zeit; and Erik Lakomaa, political consultant and strategist for the 2003 Swedish campaign against the euro.

On Wednesday 9 September, Open Europe is hosting a lunchtime debate in Dublin on the topic of the Lisbon Treaty. Speakers include Gisela Stuart, Labour MP and former member of the European Convention which drew up the EU Constitution; Dr Jochen Bittner from German newspaper Die Zeit; and Erik Lakomaa, political consultant and strategist for the 2003 Swedish campaign against the euro.