David Cameron clashed with Tory Eurosceptic MPs today as he offered to approve a new scheme to bail out the single currency without holding a referendum... more
NEW: David Cameron faces renewed attacks over his abandonment of a referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty after one of his MPs vows to campaign for a public vote... more
David Cameron hit by two Tory resignations and denounced as 'pathetic' and 'autistic' by the French foreign minister over his new policies on Europe... more
Twenty years ago this month, the Czechs provided one of the highlights of a historic year when the Velvet Revolution in Prague drove the Communists from power... more
Britain must take a lead in developing a strong European foreign policy if it is to retain its influence around the world, Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned... more
Tory party conference: Boris Johnson stirs Tory row over Lisbon Treaty, warning it would be 'difficult' to hold a referendum if it had already come into force... more
It isn't as easy as it looks, is it? As the Conservative conference opens in Manchester today, David Cameron and his team have been given an unwelcome taste of what it is like to experience the full blast of pitiless scrutiny that comes with government - or, in their case, the assumption that you will very soon be in office. And, as ever with the Tory Party, it is Europe that has delivered the slap across the face.... more
Labour and the Tories on tenterhooks as Ireland went to polls in a crunch referendum that could pave the way for Tony Blair to become president of Europe... more
The Irish are voting on the Lisbon Treaty today. They are the only people in Europe to be holding a referendum and whatever else the vote does, it points to the bracing effect on politics that comes from an obligation to put specific issues to the people... more
With the prospect of a Conservative government growing ever greater, business leaders are suffering from a bad attack of "Be careful what you wish for, in case you get it".... more
One Sunday, three months ago, Stuart Wheeler received a curt email from the Tory chairman, Eric Pickles, saying he'd been expelled from the party ... more
The EU'S Lisbon Treaty threatened to pose a fresh headache for Gordon Brown after the Irish government confirmed it would try to hold a second referendum on the issue... more
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