If you ignore the mindless tittle-tattle, David Miliband’s New Statesman article raises a genuine issue: what should be the left’s attitude to the state? Although this is seen as “Blairite” it is also consistent with a more radical leftist tradition of scepticism about big government is a longstanding tradition on the left such as guild socialism, anarchism, market socialis...

69% of managers at UK finance firms support a British veto on EU financial rules even if it reduces access to the Single Market

New ComRes poll finds that 69% of managers at UK finance firms support a British veto on EU financial rules even if it reduces access to the Single Market

New Open Europe/ComRes poll: 69% of managers at UK finance firms support a British veto on EU financial rules even if it reduces access to the single market

David Cameron pledges to do ???everything possible??? to stop single market being discussed behind the UK???s back

Revised draft of European fiscal pact extends role for EU institutions and makes explicit reference to the single market

Open Europe reveals third draft of European fiscal pact; Reference to single market removed and role of ECJ watered down marking potential victory for Cameron

Connie Hedegaard, the EU's climate action commissioner, has rejected calls to introduce a price floor to sustain Europe's depressed carbon market, saying she does not want a "politically regulated system". In a wide-ranging interview with EurActiv, she also called on EU countries to roll back fossil fuel subsidies and shift them to renewable energies. More »

Biotech companies should agree not to market genetically modified (GM) crops in member states wishing to ban their cultivation before seeking EU approval for their products, a draft Danish proposal shows. More »

Joe Kennedy always claimed he'd avoided the crash of 1929 by getting out of the market as soon as he noticed that even shoe shine boys were talking about hot shares. His logic was that as soon as everyone started piling into the market, shares prices would cease to reflect real underlying values and instead they'd bubble up right until the inevitable correction. In the same spirit, I think I see t...