On Wednesday morning, the European Commission will plan how to force the Irish people to vote yes to Lisbon using €1.8 million of taxpayers' money. While the European Commission has democracy for breakfast , Libertas mourns its passing. Join us at the main entrance of the Berlaymont building, Boulevard Charlemagne, 08.45 - 10.15. For further information or photo opportunities, call Liber...

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...

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.

According to the second paragraph of Article 197 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC), Members of the Commission may attend all meetings and shall, at their request, be heard on behalf of the Commission. Under the consolidated Treaty of Lisbon, the first paragraph of Article 230 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) would shorten this to: The Commission m...

European leaders must be desperate to consider the IMF as the new solution to save the European economy. Should they accept this, they will enter world history as those who buried the European project and turned Europe into a second-rank actor, writes Maria Joao Rodrigues, a former Portuguese minister and adviser to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. More »

With EU governments unwilling to fill the funding gaps in the multi-billion international nuclear fission research project ITER, the European Commission is proposing to put an extra 1.4 billion euro on the table to honour the bloc's international commitment.  

The European Commission plans to ditch accounting requirements for the EU's smallest companies in an effort to ease the administrative burden and save each business up to €1,200 per year, or a total of €6.3 billion.

The European Commission will soon have to consider drafting new EU laws if it is asked to do so by at least one million people, after the European Parliament yesterday (15 December) gave the green light to a regulation on implementing the European Citizens' Initiative. 

The European Commission's second call for transnational European projects in the field of sport will focus on the fight against doping and the promotion of social inclusion and volunteering.

Are the “second order” elections to the European Parliament in June 2009 going to have any higher order meaning for the citizens of the European Union? The first question is if the Europarties, officially the political parties at European level, launch credible candidates for the Commission Presidency and campaign on engaging European platforms. The second issue is how the President of...