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New Open Europe report: Devolving EU regional policy could save the UK £4.2 billion over seven years

European fiscal treaty continues to create divisions

Cameron wields veto over EU treaty change

France and Germany to push ahead with imminent Treaty change

Unelected governments take power in Greece and Italy as eurozone crisis continues to worsen

Greek PM bins plan for referendum under threat of EU bailout withdrawal

Cameron set to face tense EU referendum vote

New Open Europe research: EU agency workers rules could put 28,000 young people’s employment contracts at risk

New Open Europe briefing: The case for European localism

New Open Europe briefing: What will the German Constitutional Court ruling mean for the eurozone crisis?

New Open Europe briefing: Why EU taxes will not work

Fears over Italy and Spain worsen eurozone crisis

Second Greek bailout of €109bn fails to calm the markets

Treasury says EU Commission’s budget proposal could add 1% to VAT in the UK

Commission ignores demands for cash freeze and proposes inflation-busting new long-term EU budget

New Open Europe briefing: European Central Bank’s exposure to weak eurozone economies constitutes a hidden cost to taxpayers

Second bail-out deal agreed to avoid Greek default

New Open Europe briefing highlights the EU’s failure to promote democracy and development in North Africa and the Middle East

EU’s two flagship projects under massive strain

Open Europe’s report on the EU’s €12bn a year aid budget sparks debate around Europe

Portugal forced to ask for a bail-out, UK taxpayers liable

New Open Europe research: A Portuguese bail-out could make UK liable for billions

New Open Europe briefing: EU court’s insurance ruling could cost young women drivers an extra £4,300

EU struggles to impose sanctions on Gaddafi’s regime and pushes ahead with common asylum policy plans

New Open Europe briefing: Prisoners’ right to vote. The blurred line between the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union

Government sees off crime, justice and immigration amendments to EU Bill

Urge your MP to tighten the Government’s EU ‘referendum lock’

The UK remains exposed to the troubled eurozone in 2011 and beyond

New Open Europe briefing: How to use the referendum lock to get a grip on EU asylum, immigration, crime and police laws

Ireland on the verge of bailout as EU targets treasured corporate tax rate

Cameron underplays UK's hand in Brussels by agreeing to treaty change for little in return

Open Europe calls on the Government to use Franco-German push for new EU treaty to repatriate powers

Germany to table proposal for new round of EU treaty change

Former EU Commissioners pocket at least €96,000 a year in “transition allowances” from the EU on top of new salaries

EU budget talks kick-off with Commissioner’s threat to UK rebate

Support for the EU hits a nine-year low

The European Commission to table proposals for EU tax

UK opts in to controversial new European Investigation Order

MEP ‘offended’ by member states’ attempt to reduce EU budget increase

The EU's economic government: Commission wants to suspend EU subsidies for countries breaking budget rules

New Open Europe briefing - The rise of EU economic government

New Open Europe briefing: They said it: How the EU elite got it wrong on the euro

Conservatives forced to make concessions on Europe policy in coalition agreement

UK elections: Potential Conservative/Lib Dem coalition must not undercut EU reform

Open Europe sets out the choices voters face on the EU

New Open Europe research finds that EU regulation has cost UK economy £124 billion since 1998

UK trying to resist French and German calls for “economic government” under EU President

100 days with the “nightmare” Lisbon Treaty

New Open Europe briefing: How to use the referendum lock to get a grip on EU asylum, immigration, crime and police laws

Diplomatic appointment reveals tensions at heart of Lisbon Treaty foreign policy structures

Calls for closer EU integration as European leaders contemplate bailing out Greece

MEPs vote to increase their allowances by €1,500 a month

European judges ruling on controversial 3.7% pay increase will benefit from the rise

New Open Europe research finds top 100 EU regulations will cost UK economy £184 billion by 2020

38,000 EU staff to strike for 3.7% pay rise

EU slammed for new President and Foreign Minister appointments

New Open Europe briefing: EU social policy to cost UK £71 billion over next decade

New Open Europe research: The rise of the EU's surveillance state

Ireland votes Yes as Czech Republic makes final stand against Lisbon Treaty

One day to go before the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty

"Europeans for democracy" argue against Lisbon Treaty

Lisbon Treaty was designed to stifle “real debate”, says EU Commissioner

‘Vote No to Lisbon’ launches referendum campaign in Dublin

EU working time rules for junior doctors to cost the NHS the equivalent of 5,400 doctors

New Open Europe poll shows 70% of Germans are against bailing out Ireland

German Constitutional Court delays ratification of Lisbon Treaty, demanding a law to protect the rights of national parliament

Ireland to vote again on exactly the same text of the Lisbon Treaty

Open Europe research finds that MEPs cost taxpayers five times more than UK MPs

Open Europe publishes league table of MEPs

Lisbon Treaty: 82% want referendum in UK, even if all other countries ratify

Former Labour MP laments failure to hold referendum on the Lisbon Treaty; Hague will not rule out retrospective referendum

Open Europe publishes list of MEPs signed up to controversial pension fund

EU Commissioners to take home more than £1 million each on leaving office

New Open Europe research shows that losing the right to opt out of the EU’s 48 hour week will cost the UK £8bn

EU fast tracks new programme of financial regulation

German Constitutional Court: Lisbon Treaty affects the “core issues” of German democracy

New Open Europe research shows a decade of EU regulations has cost the UK £107 billion – accounting for 72% of the total cost

EU Working Time Directive slammed by business and surgeons

New research shows EU spending 2.4 billion euros a year on propaganda

European Parliament votes to scrap UK opt-out from EU working time rules

France to use world trade talks to demand more EU cash for its farmers

European Parliament threatens UK working hours opt-out

MEPs vote to increase costs for businesses in the UK - new threat to Britain's working time opt-out

New Open Europe research: EU climate package to cost £600 per family per year

Sarkozy wants Irish revote on Lisbon Treaty in 2009

EU unveils 'Solution to the Irish Problem': second referendum in autumn 2009

New Open Europe briefing warns EU trials in absentia could mean miscarriages of justice

New poll finds Irish voters are strongly against a second referendum

New Open Europe briefing note: the EU Health Services Directive

EU leaders press ahead with ratification of Lisbon Treaty despite Irish 'no' vote

Open Europe MEP Transparency Initiative

The French EU Presidency: what to expect

MPs ignore voters' calls for a referendum on revised EU Constitution ­- will the Lords listen?

Labour Chairman of Commons European Committee: the “treaty is the tipping point”

EU's £7.2 billion regional programmes failing

Commons EU Scrutiny Committee: UK subject to "new and unquantifiable risks" from EU Constitution; 'red-lines' will not work

New energy powers for the EU could cost UK £6bn

I Want a Referendum campaign gathers momentum – 19,000 have already signed up – have you?

Open Europe publishes first comparative text of the new Constitutional Treaty

New EU treaty is 96% the same as old Constitution