Author: The European Journal

The EU Foreign Ministers welcomed the agreement reached in Moscow on 8 September, by Nicolas Sarkozy, Jose Manuel Barroso and Dmitry Medvedev, according to which Russian forces should completely withdraw from the zones adjacent...

Jim McConalogue @ Centre Right: Heavy EU regulation is to blame for a large portion of the failings in the current financial crisis. The UK’s implementation of the EU Capital Adequacy Directive within the framework of the Basel...

One of Britain’s leading economic commentators, Professor Tim Congdon, looks into the Northern Rock fiasco and asks if the EU played any part in the way in which Britain governed itself. Fundamental to the crisis was the way in...

Joe Cookson argues that even though the average Conservative lead in the polls is around 20 points, a separate poll has revealed that the public trust Labour 25 per cent to 24 per cent over the Conservatives, on what should...

Political systems are sometimes described as being either efficient or democratic. The idea is that democracy, with its many compromises and enless debates, gets in the way of firm and decisive action. The founders of the EU...