David Miliband MP, Labour's Foreign Secretary and Chris Bryant MP, Labour’s Europe Minister have today released a new document focusing on the Conservative's new European group. David Miliband MP said: "It is right to take a look at the dangerous position the Tories have adopted – a position that is bad for Britain and bad for Europe. "David Cameron has quit the mainstream &n...
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A eurozone promise to extend government loans to Greece in an emergency marked a potential step forward in the governance of Europe's monetary union
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It has been clear for some time that David Cameron is determined to prevent the Conservative party from sliding back into the sort of destructive introspection over Europe in which it might once more tear itself apart
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A lot of things, you will agree, have changed since 1983 - even in the world of diplomacy. For one, the EU has moved from a loose federation of states towards a new kind of polity - never a United States of Europe, heaven forbid, but more than just a loose arrangement of member-states. But reading George Walden's comment about Europe's putative diplomatic service in the Times I can'...
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Merry Greek dance? EU tiptoes around euro bail-out
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Gordon Brown's plan to delay action on tackling the deficit in the coming budget has been criticised by the European Union in a report that urges the Government to introduce spending cuts more quickly.
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The European Round Table of Industrialists has identified four areas in which reforms would benefit consumers and business, write Jacob Wallenberg and Leif Johansson
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As EU finance ministers meet tomorrow to reach an agreement on the EU's proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, Open Europe warns that failure to agree proportionate regulation could hurt investors, the industry and the wider EU economy.
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The political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is "extremely worrisome" and now appears to be turning into a "dormant frozen conflict," Hido Biščević, secretary-general of the Regional Cooperation Council for South Eastern Europe (RCC), told EurActiv in an interview.
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Almost 7,000 researchers from 41 countries have signed a petition demanding less red tape for EU-funded scientific cooperation programmes. Olivier Küttel, co-founder of the Trust Researchers campaign, says Europe's funding programmes must be streamlined if they are to be effective.
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