European Affairs

Migrants' cost to the NHS is far smaller proportionally than Britons because they are younger, less likely to be ill or to have started a family.

An eight-year effort to revise EU tax sharing rules is facing further possible delays as Luxembourg resists mounting pressure to sign-up to an anti-avoidance initiative the UK has described as a “test of our seriousness”.

The debate about austerity and the cost of high public-debt levels misses a key point: public debt owed to foreigners is different from debt owed to residents.

Sometimes you really do need to smell the coffee. Arriving in Turin recently I made straight for the nearest bar and ordered a caffè macchiato. A charming woman served it up. I drank it standing at the counter.

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With what will likely be the automatic appointment of the next European Commission President, the result of May 2014 European elections should endow the Brussels executive with greater legitimacy. But is this desirable, wonders a Swedish columnist.

In light of the Eurozone crisis, many commentators in the UK maintain that the Eurozone and the EU are doomed. Recalling the UK’s desire to remain apart from embryonic attempts towards European int...

The Netherlands and Luxembourg had booked foreign direct investment of $5.8tn by the end of 2012 – more than the US, UK and Germany combined, according to data that will fuel controversy over aggressive corporate tax policies.

DUTCH Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem had to amend his official biography that accidentally claimed he obtained an MA from University College Cork.

Olli Rehn, the European Union’s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.

An idiosyncratic chamber that has often been dismissed as a multilingual talking shop is rapidly assuming greater influence that is giving it a growing role in Europe and beyond.

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Le chômage a fortement progressé au Portugal au premier trimestre 2013, atteignant le taux record de 17,7 % alors que le pays, sous assistance financière, applique un strict programme d'austérité, exigé par ses créanciers.

Hay que mostrar que Europa no es una gran Alemania o una gran Francia, que es algo diferente , dice el eurodiputado Cohn-Bendit

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Samenwerkende Europese politie-instanties hebben een netwerk van eurofielen opgerold. Er zijn arrestaties verricht in onder meer Brussel, Berlijn en Ljubljana. Ook in Nederland heeft de politie een aantal mensen van hun bed gelicht.

The eurozone’s slow suffocation is going Dutch. Each extra month of slump caused by Europe’s negligent authorities is pushing Holland closer to a debt-deflation trap.

The Dutch have not suddenly become Euroskeptics. The Netherlands has always been reserved toward Europe. It has just managed, for a long time, to hide it.

Harsh austerity and reform policies are depressing growth and fostering discontent.

Hört endlich auf die Träumer, sie sind die wahren Realisten. Sie retten Europa und die Demokratie. Kein Nationalstaat kann heute noch...