Yesterday, John Dalli resigned as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy. This follows an investigation by OLAF, the EU’s antifraud office into a complaint made by tobacco producer Swedish Match. The EU’s antifraud office was looking into whether a Maltese entrepreneur had tried to sell access to Dalli. According to the Commission’s press release, the OLAF report did not [...]

In June 2014, people from across Europe will elect the next European Parliament. They probably won’t do so in great numbers: at the last election in 2009, turnout was less than 50% in more than two-thirds of the European Union’s 27 member states. In the UK, just over 34% of people voted. But next time, it could well be different. [...]

Last week foreign ministers from ten EU countries published the initial outcomes of a series of meetings of the ‘Westerwelle Group’. This group, named after the German foreign minister, has held meetings over the past three months. The ministers’ objective is high-minded: set out a new vision for the future of Europe. But the outcome is underwhelming: there are many [...]