Tory MP Christopher Chope presented the Western European Union today with his idiot's guide to Cyber War. He exposed his own nursery school understanding of technical advances. To be fair to the Christchurch MP, he did confess his abject ignorance...

The Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) has welcomed news that the European Union has adopted the European Commission's strategy on cybercrime agenda.

Is a 25 page Constitution for the European Union possible? The governments of member states of the European Union have negotiated and compromised on the treaty texts during recurring intergovernmental conferences. Both the basic structure of the EU and this mode of operation have led to long and complicated treaties. The idea of a readable 25 page Constitution for the citizens of Europe has been m...

The United Kingdom will not be allowed to default. It is too large an economy to be treated as its Prime Minister treated Iceland. And its default would possibly damage other member states of the European Union more than is acceptable. But unless the desperate campaign mounted by our government to try and force the core of Europe to finance the UK's eleven year debt binge succeeds it is going to b...

Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, to demonstrate against the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country.

Even if José Manuel Barroso happened to be the best Commission President ever, the European political families should be hard at work competing for the next five year stint at the helm of the Commission. If political parties at European level, representing 500 million EU citizens, are unable to find one qualified candidate each, they betray both their calling and the voters. However, progre...

The European Union has had a social agenda since the early days of the European Economic Community (EEC), argues Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, director of European projects at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, in a November paper.

We all know how arrogant the European Union is and how little regard it has for the views of the ordinary citizens that make up the Nation States it seeks to control. So it was no BIG surprise to read that the European Commission president said the UK was 'closer than ever before' to signing up to the single currency.  Jose Manuel Barroso said he had held private conversations with ...

Sometimes the EU Treaty of Lisbon introduces new elements to ordinary ‘Community’ policy areas. The social partners are recognised and the Tripartite Social Summit for Growth and Employment is consecrated at treaty level. We ask our readers to reflect upon a translation issue: The English treaty uses different terms in two places where five other language versions stay on track. Some p...

National targets• Cut UK greenhouse gas emissions by 34% from 1990 levels. If there is a global agreement to cut emissions, increase that target to 42%. This would equate to reducing average emissions per Briton from 11.6 tonnes in 2005 to just under 8 tonnes or a little below 7 tonnes in 2020, respectively • Only allow buying credits from outside the European Union if the higher target ...