On Tuesday the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the Lisbon Treaty is fundamentally compatible with the German Constitution – the Grundgesetz or Basic Law. The judgment is vast and verbose (German/English) but here’s a (still quite […]

It’s hard to find the words for how I feel about the proposed second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty: cynical, depressed, angry, frustrated, concerned – all those, and more. This suggestion is an absolute scandal, revealing the authoritarian […]

The Times today has a few letters responding to the government and Lord Wedderburn on the Reform Treaty.

Robert Gutfreund Walmsley’s letter makes depressing eurosceptic reading. What does he mean by the dual nationality provision? There?s nothing new in […]

Writing to the Times, this time, about the Charter again and those cases he mentioned in the Telegraph last week.

I was amazed, watching Question Time on the BBC tonight, to hear both Harriet Harman and Simon Hughes suggest that one of the ways the Reform Treaty differs from the EU Constitution is in not providing for a “European President”. […]

I was interested that at the Conservative conference last week David Cameron made clear a future Tory government will try to opt out of the EU social chapter. Not that that’s new – as this story shows – though […]

I broadly welcome the Commons European Scrutiny Committee’s report about the inter-governmental conference on the Reform Treaty.

The most important point they make is that the Reform Treaty is the “substantial equivalent” of the Constitution. The committee is […]

I come back from my summer holiday to find there’s been a lot of sound and fury over the last couple of days about the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that Learco Chindamo, the murderer of Philip […]

As the “Cash for Honours” affair appears to be reaching a climax in Britain – the CPS believe no further investigation is needed, and they can now proceed to advise whether any offences are diclosed by the evidence, and […]

Last Thursday the ECJ gave judgment for the UK in infraction proceedings brought by the Commission. This is a major victory for the UK; and it might even turn out, one day, to be a milestone in the history […]