Gherkin; City of London

European Parliament backs Tobin tax idea

News Tue 8 Mar 2011, AT 15:37

Business digest: The move increases pressure on Brussels to consider the idea of a tax on bank transactions

Farage rant makes Van Rompuy hero - in Belgium

News Wed 10 Mar 2010, AT 15:11

‘Damp rag’ EU president Herman Van Rompuy says he pities Nigel Farage for his outburst

Rachida Dati

Rachida Dati’s opponents gleeful at her EU gaffe

News Wed 16 Dec 2009, AT 07:23

‘I can’t take any more!’ says frustrated former French minister, now ‘a simple MEP’

Tony Blair

William Hague warns against ‘President Blair’

News Thu 22 Oct 2009, AT 14:55

Hague tells ambassadors that appointing Tony Blair as EU president would be a hostile act

David Cameron and Michal Kaminski

David Cameron's damaging association with a Polish extremist

News Wed 5 Aug 2009, AT 18:51

Michal Kaminski, the Polish leader of the Conservatives' European Parliament bloc, has some embarrassing views on Jews and gays

Barbara Matera

Griffin joins right-wing MEP beauties

News Mon 8 Jun 2009, AT 19:10

But unfortunately for the BNP leader Nick Griffin, Silvio Berlusconi’s plan to pack the European Parliament with right-wing ‘showgirls’ has been foiled

House of Commons

Are British MPs underpaid?

News Mon 8 Jun 2009, AT 14:57

If we paid our MPs as much as politicians are paid abroad, so it’s argued, then the expenses scandal could have been avoided

Elections

Questions your Euro MP candidates don't want you to ask

Column Fri 29 May 2009, AT 17:48

As the parties canvass for your vote ahead of the European elections on June 4, here are the questions that expose the contradictions of their policies

Tories fear BNP could pick up a Euro seat on June 4

News Wed 13 May 2009, AT 17:19

The Mole: It was a lacklustre PMQs as both parties face up to the humiliation of the expenses fiasco, says our Westminster insider

Angela Sozio Barbara Matera

Berlusconi’s new models for European elections

News Thu 23 Apr 2009, AT 17:17

Italian PM picks a glamorous line up of female candidates for Strasbourg poll