Alan Donnelly Articles

There is perhaps only one occasion every five years when the European parliament really has the commission over a barrel – and that time is right now. The hearings process, whereby committees of the parliament interview nominees to the commission, is more about...

So the dust settles after the prime minister’s rout at the European council. Thanks in no small part to David Cameron's astonishingly amateurish attempt to block Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Luxembourg prime minister is secure as next European commission president....

European and local elections are now upon us. While the ‘Europe question’ has dominated the news agenda for over a year, the elections themselves have taken a back seat. Most attention has focused on the United Kingdom Independence party rather than the European Union...

By now Europeans are used to crisis meetings. In the years since 2007, these have all been internal-focused, as the euro-crisis rumbled on. As if the European Union needed another crisis to attend to, Ukraine has presented itself. The past two weeks has seen massive...