Brussels, May 27th: Libertas can reveal that in 2008, of 1809 rules that came out of Europe ONLY ONE needed to have the positive support of a majority vote in the European Parliament, the only democratically and directly elected body in Brussels.

EU leaders are to discuss multi-billion-euro rescue plans for Europe's ailing banks at a two-day summit in Brussels. European heads of state meet in Paris to try to establish a common approach to the global financial crisis.

Europe is at a crossroads: to boost growth and emerge from the economic crisis, it needs to forge an energy community with or without treaty change, said European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek at a meeting with national parliamentarians in Brussels. 

"Bringing citizens closer to Europe (and not bringing Europe closer to citizens) is the biggest challenge" of the upcoming elections to the European Parliament, argues Nicolaus Heinen of Deutsche Bank Research in an April paper.

Receiving a jubilant welcome at a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham on Friday described Europe as the "essential partner" for the United States.

Open Europe has obtained a list of which MEPs have and have not, as of last week, signed a European Parliament Declaration calling for an end to the monthly trip between Brussels and Strasbourg. Open Europe has written to all those MEPs who have not signed, urging them to do so before the deadline tomorrow.

Nine international banks operating in central and eastern Europe have asked the EU and the European Central Bank to extend their anti-crisis policies to ease the credit crunch in the region

Five central banks, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank took action yesterday to ease the dollar funding crisis looming in Europe. The central banks agreed to provide unlimited three-month loans in US dollars to banks until the end of the year.

Brussels: "History reminds us it is usually in times of crisis that we can make progress in the European project". So says the man who David Cameron had breakfast with this morning in Brussels. The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, speaks for many here. His words have already fuelled the suspicions of many Eurosceptics that, once again, predictions that "the era of ...

On his blog, Jon Worth notes that the European Parliament is financing the development of a role-playing and networking website modelled on the European Parliament, named ‘Citzalia’. The project appears to be financed from €4 million allocated to European Service Network (ESN), a Brussels-based communications agency, from the European Parliament.