The German-led calls for an IMF-style bailout fund for the EU have caught most people on the hop, including the French, and the lack of detail suggests that the practicalities are only now being worked on inside the German Finance Ministry.French offic…

Happy New Year - some thoughts on 2009 and the new year ahead from us over on Conservative Home.

Over at Conservative Home today we lay out our response to David Cameron’s announcement that he will bring control over social and employment policy back to the UK. This is the most welcome aspect of his new ‘Europe policy’, but on close inspection, h…

Ahead of David Cameron’s announcement on Conservative policy on Europe, Open Europe has today published the first in a series of papers about what a future Conservative government should prioritise, now that the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified.In about…

President Klaus has signed the Treaty and David Cameron is expected to make an announcement at 4pm tomorrow about what he will do next.There’s zero chance he will call a referendum on the now-ratified Lisbon Treaty (to come into force by 1 December), b…

The blog is likely to go quiet for a few days as we head up to Manchester for the Conservative Party Conference. Should be an interesting few days, especially with our fringe event on what the Tories should do about Europe scheduled for Wednesday.For …