European Peoples Party Articles

I am biased on Europe: born, postwar, in a divided Germany. Educated in a Britain outside of the common market, seeing a terrifying wall built in Berlin. Helped set up the European Trades Union Congress as we joined in 1973, bringing non-communist trade union bodies...

Better off out? Better off in? What about better off in the lead? To truly reconcile Britain and the European Union, and to calm voter unrest, the Labour party should consider a bold bid to elect a British president of the European commission in 2019. This would send...

David Cameron needs Angela Merkel. It is not something that his backbenchers would like to admit, but the simple fact is that in order to secure any progress on reform in the European Union he will need to win support from the German chancellor. The problem for...

Once again this week the European parliament expressed its strong desire to see member states implement urgent measures to tackle staggering levels of youth unemployment in the form of a European Youth Guarantee. With the number of young people in Europe not in work,...