Daniel Hannan: How the EU must wish it had accepted May’s Chequers offer

The truth is that Eurocrats see Britain as a rule-taking dependent, like Macedonia or Ukraine, rather than as a wholly independent nation.

Christopher Howarth: We are not supplicants in this negotiation. We have something the EU needs: money.

For both sides, this is a new kind of deal-making. Although Britain is still a member, this is not an internal negotiation in which the UK can be outgunned and outvoted:

Amandeep Singh Bhogal: Partnership with India is the future – the hidebound EU is the past

We are uniquely placed to compete in and win the race for business opportunities in the world’s largest democracy.

Lord Risby: Tougher sanctions? A free trade area? Seeking NATO membership? Ukraine’s options for dealing with Putin

Happily, a well-educated younger generation of Ukrainians will begin to replace those who so spectacularly failed to build on the spirit of the Orange Revolution.

Michael Fallon MP: Turning the tanker – how we are fighting to reform the EU’s uncompetitive regulations

It’s hard work, but we are putting deregulation on the agenda in Brussels – with success.

European Right divides over Brussels’ climate change plan

In recent days Italy and Poland had both signalled unhappiness that the EU was pressing ahead with ambitious climate change… Read more »

Europe’s centre right leaders back second term for Barroso

EUBusiness.com is reporting that Europe’s key centre right leaders – Berlusconi, Merkel and Sarkozy – have endorsed a second term… Read more »