Merkel and Berlusconi enjoy strong domestic support

Some key numbers from the latest ComRes survey of European opinion: French Right set to increase number of MEPs: "While… Read more »

The state of European opinion

ComRes have begun to circulate a very interesting guide to public opinion across Europe.  Here are some of the learnings… Read more »

Merkel agrees to €50 billion stimulus package

Under pressure from the CSU section of her centre right party – Angela Merkel has agreed to include tax cuts… Read more »

German CDU joins attack on Gordon Brown’s unfunded fiscal stimulus (as Angela Merkel becomes ‘Frau Nein’)

The British Conservative Party was delighted yesterday when Germany’s left-leaning finance minister, Peer Steinbruck, used an interview with Newsweek to… Read more »

Angela Merkel becomes more and more like Margaret Thatcher

That’s the verdict of British MP, Greg Hands.

UK Tories deepen relations with centre right parties in Europe

David Cameron met Angela Merkel yesterday (library photograph) in the latest example of the increasing cooperation between UK Tories and… Read more »

Angela Merkel’s 2009 opponent

The Wall Street Journal Europe has an interesting editorial on the new SDP candidate for Chancellor.  As pro-Moscow as his… Read more »

CDU’s Rüttgers pursues “the politics of balance”

Is Germany’s CDU edging leftwards?  It’s not the first time this question has been asked and it was asked again… Read more »