Der Spiegel reports that the Bundesbank suspects a French “conspiracy” over the €25 billion which the ECB has spent purchasing Greek bonds so far. According to the magazine, Bundesbank officials suspect that the move is intended to allow French banks to unload their Greek bonds.

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.

There’s a sharp fall in the number of job offered by government this week. Yet our non-job of the week reveals a worrying development in Regional Development Agencies that local taxpayers should watch out for: “Thurrock Lakeside Basin Policy Officer...

Great news. London residents can now get crime maps providing information on crime rates in their local areas from a Metropolitan Police website. This is a huge step forward in giving ordinary people the information they need to hold the...

The trend continues, with another drop in government jobs on offer this week. Our non-job of the week comes from Lambeth: "Enviro-Crime Enforcement Officer £29,241 - £30,774 pa You care about the environment" More than that, you want to achieve...

In recent months there has been a lot of discussion about how the Government might help people facing high energy prices. The unions, politicians and various campaigners have called for a crackdown on energy companies they accuse of profiteering. Yesterday,...

The Centre for Social Cohesion have produced an interesting rebuttal to a controversial report about campus radicalism today. Dr June Edmunds, a Cambridge academic, has produced a report saying that the Government's view of Islamist extremism on University campuses is...

For the moment the case of Frederick Toben, arrested at Heathrow Airport by our boys and girsl in blue on German demand because the man is accused of being a Holocaust denier (and for all I know, he is but it is not a crime in this country), has been suspended. A London judge ruled yesterday that the European arrest warrant used to detain him for extradition earlier this month was invalid because ...

One new all-time record coming upThis week Mr Darling buried the fiscal rules, telling us:"To apply the fiscal rules in a rigid manner today would be perverse. We would have to take money out of the economy, exacerbating an already...

Against the background of worsening economic conditions and businesses struggling to remain solvent, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today publishes a detailed study of the severe burden placed on business by EU regulations. The report reveals the true scale of EU...