Most people in the UK probably don't know it but today is Europe Day. It celebrates the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration - when the French foreign minister proposed bringing European States together as part of a supranational community.

It would be easy to ignore Europe day...

Earlier today the UK's new tougher stance on immigration was announced by a woman whose family come from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha lineage. She spoke in a parliament whose principles originate from the ideas of a Frenchman, Simon de Monfort.

The Queen, who has announced...

Over the last month we've seen Britain's big three political parties trip over each other as they bid to out-Farage one another in their rhetoric on immigration. The Tories, as you might expect, took the hardest line and announced measures to curb benefits to immigrants. The Labour Party, still bearing...

The European Parliament often hears a speech from a foreign head of state before the serious business of policy making begins each month at our Strasbourg plenary sessions.

This week we heard from the world's oldest head of state, Shimon Peres. Israel's president, who has also been...

Almost exactly two hundred and one years ago a boy called Charles Dickens was born to a navy clerk and his wife in the dockyard town of Portsmouth. This boy, who wouldn't stay in Portsmouth for long, went on to be famed for writing about the horrific poverty faced by...

A plant which enriches uranium is just about the last place you'd want to hear of having to shut down because of the 'corrosion' of its structural steelwork. But, following an investigation by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), it was revealed last week that the...

There is a growing realisation of the threats to public health from air pollution. In fact, breathing polluted air has become second only to smoking in the health damage it causes. About 70% of air pollution comes from transport, with the balance mainly coming from agriculture and domestic heating.

A...