European Union lawmakers voted in favour of a proposal to exempt 'micro enterprises' across Europe from drawing up annual accounts if they meet two of three criteria

The European Heritage Label should be established as an EU-wide initiative, Culture Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou suggested yesterday (9 March), presenting plans to highlight historical sites across Europe that "symbolise European integration, ideals and history". 

The EU's foreign policy chief, Lady Ashton, tells MEPs Europe has a "once in a generation opportunity" to build a powerful diplomatic service.

So it looks like Gordon's going to go through the theatre of a pre-election budget. This can mean only one thing - he's going to get Darling to lie big time. He'll no doubt use his traditional tricks including: Hiding in the small print - so the headlines won't pick up on the downside.Lots are straight bold lies - eg "Best placed in Europe to weather the recession " "No more bo...

The EU's new commissioner for climate action wants Europe to continue leading global negotiations and pursue deeper emission cuts, even if the current pledge of 20% reductions by 2020 was not matched by other developed countries. 

William Hague says the Conservatives have made 'a strategic decision' not to pick a fight with the rest of Europe if they win the election

The political appetite in Europe for clamping down on speculative trading shows no sign of abating. But the big issue for regulators is how to turn this into effective rules

It seems there must be discussion about a potential European Monetary Fund and an organisation to manage Europe’s economies that circumvents Maastricht to avert future fiscal crises. So much for Lisbon, the treaty to end all treaties. Quite why no one, especially the treaty's opponents, acknowledged the possibility of a member state's financial collapse whilst Lisbon was being rati...

In case you wouldn’t have noticed, another crisis has come on top of the big one. For those who understand French, read carefully this article in the March 5 edition of French daily “Le Monde” . A former German finance vice-minister buries the euro as it is now and advises all Southern-Europe economies (including France) to

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU's commissioner for research, innovation and science, believes that the bloc's target of spending 3% of GDP on research and development (R&D) must remain in place if Europe is to put itself firmly on the road to economic recovery.