Ahead of the 4-7 June elections, the European Parliament has set up an election micro-blog on Twitter in the European Union's 22 official languages to keep people up to speed on preparations for the Europe-wide poll.

Enterprise ministers from across Europe look set to amend a European Commission proposal to exempt small businesses from burdensome accounting rules.

On the basis of Article 175(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC) a recast Directive has been issued on the contained use of GMMs: Directive 2009/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (Recast). This text, with EEA relevance, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU...

Leading companies from the European Union have attacked proposals for the bloc to go beyond existing commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions at climate talks in Copenhagen

EC officials say that small companies could benefit from a proposal to spare them from financial reporting obligations, but an employers' group says it is unlikely to generate cost reduction

The Council of the European Union has published a notice on a Multi-annual European e-Justice Action Plan 2009─2013, in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) 31.3.2009 C 75/1. The project aims at developing the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) at European level in the field of justice. Objectives worth mentioning are: • Improved access to information in th...

For the sake of comparison, an election manifesto can be fairly short and still manage to set a future course for the European Union: Stronger Together in a Federal Europe: UEF Manifesto for the European Parliament 2009-14 Europe must be more united if it is to face up to its current economic and constitutional crises. This is the message of European federalists on the eve of the European Parliame...

Per un’Europa libera e unita – Towards a free and united Europe (1941). *** We are not there yet, but we have come a long way: Draft Treaty establishing the European Union (1984) Preamble With a view to continuing and reviving the democratic unification of Europe, of which the European Communities, the European Monetary System and European Political Cooperation represent the first achi...

Gordon Brown and the European Union have decided to continue their policy of exporting jobs out of Europe. No reason was given, but previously they said that companies should pay their fair share of tax and that European workers deserve...

Well, the Economist have finally scrambled out of their dugout and have now joined the fray. Welcome! Today they have a leader entitled “The bill that could break up Europe“, with the sub heading “If eastern Europe goes down, it may take the European Union with it”, so I think we can all get the message