During questions yesterday in Parliament, Europe Minister Caroline Flint admitted that she had not read the Lisbon Treaty in its entirety. Following a series of vague answers on the implications of the Treaty for European defence, Shadow Europe Minister Mark Francois asked, “Has the Minister read the elements of the Lisbon Treaty that relate to defence?”.

A new, pan-European campaign called Europe Says No: No to Lisbon, Yes to democracy has been launched. The campaign is being organised by a wide range of people across Europe, and across the political spectrum, who want to see the Lisbon Treaty rejected. In advance of Ireland's outrageous repeat referendum on 2nd October, Europe Says No aims to show how many people across Europe would themselv...

The Lisbon Treaty is about to rear its ugly head As talk now turns to the last major elections in the UK before a general election, the focus will begin to fall back on Europe and, in particular, the Lisbon Treaty. Remember the Lisbon Treaty?  The dead duck constitution that was finally consigned to the history books

There is continued coverage of a Red C poll commissioned by Open Europe showing that Irish voters are strongly opposed to a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and would vote no by a larger margin than the last time around if a second vote was held. The Irish Independent, in an article discussing Open Europe and its business supporters, reports on the opposition of the Irish Labour Party to a ...

The Sunday Express reported on Open Europe’s new report – “How the EU is watching you – the rise of Europe’s surveillance state”, published today, which argues that when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, the EU will be able to accelerate a raft of controversial new proposals which are set to radically increase the EU’s role in policing, criminal and security ...

A second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would shunt Europe into a constitutional impasse. Andrew Duff outlines what's at stake for Europe

This is the information Europe Direct has provided today with regard to my questions to the Council and the Commission on preparatory work for the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon: “In reply to your questions please note the following information provided by the Secretariat General of the European Commission: a) Preparatory work on the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty - Council &...

A second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would shunt Europe into a constitutional impasse . Andrew Duff, MEP, outlines what's at stake for Europe

Judges at the German Constitutional Court are tomorrow due to rule on the compatibility of the Lisbon Treaty with the German Constitution. Ahead of the decision, Open Europe, in collaboration with the Institute for Free Enterprise in Berlin, has published a new poll which shows that 77% of Germans want to be given a say on the Lisbon Treaty in a national referendum.

Hurdle for EU treaty overcome despite mood of euroscepticism in Prague Europe's long and ill-starred attempt to streamline the way the EU is run surmounted one of its last major obstacles today when the Czech parliament ratified the Lisbon treaty. In one of the last acts of a government brought down humiliatingly halfway through chairing the EU for the first time, the Czech upper house endors...