Claims for the number of laws with an EU origin range from just 9% up to 84%. So what’s the truth?

This has been on various UKIP election leaflets, so it’s evidently a claim they’re proud of - but does it stand up?
Simple maths tells us that Britain paying £40 million a day to the EU would mean an annual contribution of £14.6 billion. However, the most recent Treasury Report on the UK’s EU budget contributions [...]

Interesting analysis from European Voice today:
Some members of the European Monetary Union (EMU) – Ireland and Greece obviously, and Italy, too – are discovering that what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adjudges a global recession is cruelly exposing their failure in the past ten years to adjust to the rigours of membership of a currency [...]

Interesting post from new EU/US politics blog Entangled Alliances, taking a look at the fate of European integration during times of recession, worth a look in full:
Economic slowdowns have historically - almost without exception - led to greater protectionism as each country faces demands from its electorate to shield them from the rising storm of [...]

I’ve been rather busy this week, so have only just realised that The Economist’s superb EU-focussed blog Certain Ideas of Europe is - for reasons unknown - being cancelled.
Public Affairs 2.0 asks a few questions. Has the writer left? I doubt it - I’m pretty certain it was produced by more than one staffer. Has [...]