April 14, 2009 | EU officials warned to be careful about email content

New rules on public access to EU documents have prompted one of the European Commission's key departments to circulate a memo warning officials to be careful about what they write in emails and advising them on how to narrowly interpret requests for information.

March 24, 2009 | Think-tank blasts EU commissioners' pensions package

EU commissioners who will leave their posts this year are to receive more than a million euro each in the forms of pensions and benefits, according to a think-tank report.

March 23, 2009 | EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2009 - Changer d'Europe

French EUD member organisation, Debout la République, has launched its campaign blog for the upcoming European elections in June.

March 20, 2009 | EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2009 - Peter Kopecky to contest European elections

Peter Kopecky heads the list of the Slovakian Agrarian and Countryside Party for European elections in June 2009

March 17, 2009 | Transparency is necessary to restore trust in EU

Last Saturday, Hanne Dahl MEP (JuniBevaegelsen) took part in a discussion on BBC’s “The record: Europe” programme hosted by Shirin Wheeler.

March 16, 2009 | EU costs every family £4,700, says new study

Roger Helmer, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, has launched a hard-hitting advertising campaign across the region to highlight the huge cost of the EU to taxpayers. Featuring the slogan: "The EU: It´ll have the shirt off your back", it focuses on the massive economic penalties of EU membership.

March 12, 2009 | Transparency by creating 'top secret' category for EU documents?

MEPs have called on the European Commission to be more ambitious in its transparency proposals while at the same time introducing an 'EU classifed' category protecting top secret documents for up to 30 years.

March 09, 2009 | Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg unite on bank secrecy

Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland rallied together on Sunday (8 March) in a last ditch attempt to protect their banking secrecy regimes, under threat amid global efforts to tackle the economic crisis. Ministers of the three countries - EU members except for Switzerland - met in Luxembourg to discuss how they can best keep their countries off an international blacklist of tax havens.

March 06, 2009 | Rapid euro entry would help Baltic states, agency says

If the Baltic nations rapidly entered the eurozone, their current balance of payments crisis would end and credit ratings would go up, US-based rating agency Standard and Poor's said on Thursday (5 March).

March 05, 2009 | Better-off eastern central banks reject regional slump label

The central banks of the better-off nations of eastern Europe have issued a joint statement asking that investors and others distinguish between themselves and the weaker economies in the region.

March 04, 2009 | Peter Kopecky and Agora in the fight for democracy

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March 02, 2009 | EU leaders paper over divisions on economic crisis

Just hours after the European Commission approved a French car aid plan, EU leaders on Sunday (1 March) sought to put a lid on damaging divisions in the bloc on how to deal with the financial crisis by saying that none of its member states is being protectionist.

February 27, 2009 | German centre-right party calls for EU referendums

Germany's centre-right CSU party is hoping to tap into anti-European sentiment in the influential state of Bavaria to attract votes for the June European elections. Mr Seehofer said Europe must become much closer to its citizens and that citizens should have the right to decide on important questions, specifically naming Turkish EU membership as a referendum-worthy issue.

February 26, 2009 | Financial crisis threatens east-west divide in EU

Eastern European member states' fears that they will be left behind by richer EU members in the economic crisis are growing ahead of the informal EU summit on Sunday (1 March). Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria are hoping to pull Germany, the Netherlands and Nordic states into a coalition opposing the creation of "eurobonds," Polish officials told daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "We want to block the potential eurobond project. To do everything to prevent a two-speed Europe. The introduction of eurobonds for the eurozone only would mean precisely this," Polish deputy prime minister Grzegorz Schetyna said on Wednesday.

February 24, 2009 | Will Germany deliver on the Faustian bargain that created monetary union?

If Der Spiegel is correct, the German finance ministry is drafting rescue plans to prevent default on the edges of the eurozone leading to a full-blown collapse of Europe's monetary system.

February 23, 2009 | Mass protest in Ireland, government falls in Latvia

Around 120,000 citizens hit the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest the government's handling of the economic crisis. Meanwhile in Latvia, the prime minister and his government have resigned amid growing political and economic strife in the Baltic country.

February 19, 2009 | Brussels pushes for fiscal discipline amid crisis

The European commission took the first step towards starting excessive deficit procedures against six countries on Wednesday when it issued its analysis of member state budgetary forecasts submitted last month.

January 11, 2009 | German judges express scepticism about EU treaty

Several of the eight judges in charge of examining whether the EU's Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the German constitution have expressed scepticism about the constitutional effects of further EU integration. According to reports in the German media, the debate during the crucial two-day hearing starting on Tuesday (10 Februrary) on the treaty centred on criminal law and the extent to which it should be the preserve of member states rather than the EU.

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