Will Italy’s new government blow the bloody doors off? Don’t get your hopes up. (Or your fears either.)

One day the country’s voters may dig in against the long squeeze imposed on them from northern Europe. But don’t be too sure it will happen yet.

Might some Labour MPs oppose a customs union? If so, are the Tory whips making contact with them?

Those representing working class seats in the Midlands and North will be nervous of any suggestion that they’re betraying the referendum result.

Garvan Walshe: Have no doubt about it – Prime Minister Corbyn would abandon Eastern Europe

Britain would be powerless to deter Russian aggression, because he doesn’t see upholding peace and security in Europe – let alone the world – to be part of his job.

Votes loom on the EU Withdrawal Bill in the Lords. Which places a big responsibility on Labour’s leader there – Angela Smith.

Crossbench votes are always crucial in the Upper House as it now is. But the decisive role in the Bill’s consideration may well be played by the Official Opposition.

The presence of people like Orban in the EU club should worry Brussels far more than the prospect of Britain leaving it

He often disagrees with EU policies, but would not be averse to using its powers and institutions to promote a very different, nativist, concept of Europe and Europeans.

Poland’s new Holocaust law is unworthy of one of the great, civilised nations of Europe

The Law and Justice Party has sought to foment a poisonous dynamic which could do great harm to relations with Poland’s Jews.

Profile: Viktor Orban – migrant-hostile, anti-liberal…but pro-EU, and more pragmatic than he seems

The EU bureaucracy, with its supranational claims, is a godsend to him. But he is more pragmatic than he looks. He does not want a Hungary without allies.

Garvan Walshe: Why Britain must speak out against Orban’s assault on the Central European University

Dissidents in Eastern Europe could look to Thatcher’s Britain to stand up for their liberty. Are we still the sort of people to whom democrats turn?

Matthew Barrett: Liberty, not democracy, is the real conservative watchword

Are the fundamental tenets of freedom – that of association, expression, and worship – being maintained to their fullest extent? Some would say not.

Chris Carter: Merkel’s deal with Erdogan – not Brexit – is the real threat to peace in Europe

By appeasing blackmailing autocrats such as the Turkish President, the EU is undermining the democratic and liberal values which it’s supposed to support.