Much has already been written this week about the negotiating hand that David Cameron should be playing in Brussels over the next couple of days.   I am fervently of the view that there is indeed a whole raft of policy areas over which he should be seeking to reclaim powers from Brussels, and they are detailed in a new paper by Dr Lee Rotherham, Terms of Endearment, which was published earlie...

Ahead of an EU economic summit in Brussels, the prime minister clearly sees Europe as an important area dividing Labour and the Conservatives

If implemented, the strategy should bring "at least 2% growth" to Europe, Barroso said, presenting his proposals in Brussels on Wednesday (3 March). However, he said it would be "too risky" to speculate on a precise figure as the current economic crisis had made the situation difficult to predict. A fragile recovery from the economic crisis and fiscal problems in Greece and oth...

Amid the worst economic crisis in recent times, the EU must find creative ways of meeting societal needs, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso told a group of social innovation experts yesterday (20 January), just days before the World Economic Forum brings together social entrepreneurs to offer their unique perspectives on global challenges.

The British media woke up this week, realising that Europe still exists. As David Cameron travels to Brussels, questions loom over what, exactly, he can achieve in Europe – at this summit, and more importantly, moving forward.   Much of the commentary surrounding the summit has focussed on the increase to the EU’s 2011 budget, which Cameron is fighting.  And for good reason. ...

The convening of a highly unusual "pre-summit summit" meeting underlines the divisions and disarray among politicians as Europe confronts its greatest economic challenges since the end of the Cold War.

Demands for the immediate repatriation of social and employment powers from Brussels have been dropped by the Government ahead of summit talks on EU treaty change next week.

Prime ministers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary &# the so-called Visegrad group &# are meeting this morning (25 March) ahead of a two-day EU summit in Brussels to hammer out common positions on the EU's future diplomatic service and economic issues.

EU leaders met yesterday for an emergency summit to try and find a consensus on the global financial crisis before April’s G20 summit. However, the Times notes that the summit was “marked by suspicion and self-interest, with the economic crisis exposing deep faultlines on how best to respond to the downturn.

DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images Is it just me, or does French President Nicolas Sarkozy sound a little like Gollum in this quote about a planned summit to restructure the world's financial architecture? Europe wants the summit before the end of the year... Europe wants it. Europe demands it. Europe will get it." We wants it! In all seriousness, smart people have been saying for a long t...