Christine Lagarde earns £632,716 as European Central Bank president - more than three times Keir Starmer's salary.

We don't, in fact, have to host a Eurocrat who sees freedom of expression as a disease to be cured. We can tell him to stay ...

We don't, in fact, have to host a Eurocrat who sees freedom of expression as a disease to be cured. We can tell him to stay home.

*Huh. Sounds more like a technothriller than a crime writer, but who can tell the difference at this distance. Via POLITICO. Ulf Bergström, Eurocrat-turned-crime writer What’s a former Eurojust and ...

As Eurocrats-in-chief go, Ursula von der Leyen has generally been relatively inoffensive to British sensibilities. Most of us were dimly aware that she was one of those people who excel at “failing ...

Two of the most powerful men in the world. Trump? Putin? Xi? Nah. Chairman Jerome Powell and President Mario Draghi. Let’s analyze their recent press conferences! In the last edition of the Gold New ...

IN PHILIP ROTH’S “The Human Stain”, a university professor finds himself accused of racial harassment after he jokingly asks whether two black students who fail to attend class are “spooks”. (He means ...

We can surely all agree: The last thing the EU bubble needs is more tired, stale and obscure jargon. Brussels is a place full of “global actors” you won’t see starring in films; “instruments” that don ...

A BRITISH official was today fired from his job with the European Commission over a book in which he lashes the EU's single currency plans. Bernard Connolly, a senior bureaucrat in the Commission's ...

Simply sign up to the EU economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. (noun) a strong desire to be more successful than others; the quality of being as good as or better than others Since ...

The Black Diamond library sits at a slight forward slant on Copenhagen’s riverfront, resembling a pair of Borg spaceships peering into the water. On the morning of a European Commission citizens’ ...