1. Eurojust debates Israeli data transfer
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...uropean Commission plans to declare Israel a "safe harbour" for the personal data of EU citizens, writes Stephen Gardner. The declaration would have removed restrictions on transfers of in...

2. Eurojust highlights arrest warrant problems
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...g two or more EU states is to mediate when the much-maligned European Arrest Warrant (EAW) causes problems, writes Stephen Gardner. As it increasingly does. Eurojust's recently published annual re...

3. The fifth woman
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...d euro-representatives, UK Labour Party MEPs will play an important role in the Labour leadership election, writes Stephen Gardner. Their votes count equally with those of members of the Westminster p...

4. EU Commission publishes policing database survey
(Digital state/News and comment)

...g them to establish if they continue to fulfil a useful function and provide value to policing authorities, writes Stephen Gardner. The survey covers 17 databases and systems, and also includes inform...

5. Euro-correspondent 'influential'
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...ent survey has found. The 'Brussels Blogger Study 2010', published by consultancy Waggener Edstrom, placed Stephen Gardner's blog, The Digger, in third place behind Gavin Hewitt's Euro...

6. UK must strengthen data protection, EU Commission says
(Digital state/News and comment)

... its data protection authority so that they comply with the European Union's Data Protection Directive, writes Stephen Gardner. The UK's standard of data protection was "lower than requir...

7. Money for nothing
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

...ations in Europe will get, courtesy of the badly thought out European Union emissions trading system (ETS), writes Stephen Gardner. And what a whopping windfall it is. Steel firms, petrochemical compa...

8. Climate windfall scandal
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

...communication on 'moving beyond a 20 percent greenhouse gas reduction' and you will spot a scandal, writes Stephen Gardner. It's on page 3 of the communication and it reads like this: '...

9. UK scraps electronic identity cards
(Digital state/News and comment)

...ffice May 11, has said it will scrap a scheme to introduce electronic identity cards in the United Kingdom, writes Stephen Gardner. The national identity register on which the identity cards were to b...

10. Stamp of approval
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

...are adopting carbon labels on their products, but concerns about clarity and consumer understanding remain, writes Stephen Gardner. Companies are divided over the usefulness of carbon footprint labels...

11. Moving swiftly on
(Digital state/News and comment)

...sed a "serious setback" to security cooperation between the European Union and the United States, writes Stephen Gardner. It vetoed an agreement between Brussels and Washington that would ha...

12. European Parliament tones down spending criticism
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...e Socialists, joined forces in March to suppress a critical report on the Parliament's spending habits, writes Stephen Gardner. The report, by Belgian MEP Bart Staes, on the discharge of the Parli...

13. OLAF's last laugh
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...port by the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, on the celebrated Hans-Martin Tillack case has come to light, writes Stephen Gardner. As detailed in previously by Eurocorrespondent, OLAF hounded Tillack...

14. Keeping an eye on you
(Digital state/News and comment)

More taxpayer-funded handouts for big business in the guise of EU project spending, writes Stephen Gardner. Defence giant BAE Systems is sharing in £33 million of funding for research projects.

15. EU climate concessions but some things never change
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

...nt 9 March that mark an abrupt change of direction for European Union climate policy on a number of points, writes Stephen Gardner. First, she wants to reverse the EU position on the continuation of t...

16. EU bids for more security powers
(EU Insider/News and comment)

Emboldened by the Lisbon Treaty, Brussels is making an ambitious grab for more surveillance powers, writes Stephen Gardner. Plans for amassing data on individuals and making it available across the co

17. Data storage breaches privacy, Germany’s top court says
(Digital state/News and comment)

... to store for up to six months data on their customers’ telephone, email and Internet communications, writes Stephen Gardner. The court, in a 2 March judgement, said the law contravened privacy ...

18. European Parliament: more spending scrutiny
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...nt's budgets committee is asking probing questions about its management of the Parliament's budget, writes Stephen Gardner. MEPs don't usually look so closely. But in the tough economic ti...

19. Money well spent?
(EU Insider/News and comment)

... sum for the amount spent by the Parliament on advertising the 2009 European elections: €21.4 million, writes Stephen Gardner. For this the European taxpayer got, in best Brussels jargon, "3...

20. The German way of business
(News/Latest)

...n companies argue that by complying with a strict regulatory framework, they have been doing CSR for years, writes Stephen Gardner. German business has a contradictory reputation. German corporations ...

21. EU failure in COP-15 cop out
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

... climate negotiations, which are really negotiations about global economic, and therefore political, power, writes Stephen Gardner. In the Copenhagen talks, China and the US were the only voices that ...

22. Who ate all the fish?
(EU Insider/News and comment)

Every Brussels policy edict comes with green edging nowadays, writes Stephen Gardner. So, when in September Monaco suggested that the best way to conserve the highly endangered and emblematic Atlantic

23. Powered up
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

...ld find themselves named and shamed under a government scheme called the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), writes Stephen Gardner. Electricity squanderers could also find themselves subsidising the l...

24. Fished out
(News/Latest)

...y can grow to a length of four metres – are severely threatened, so serving them up has become taboo, writes Stephen Gardner. But there is a different attitude in Japan, where the bluefin is pri...

25. Setting Sun?
(News/Latest)

... will be 40 years since the first edition of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper rolled off the presses, writes Stephen Gardner. The Sun existed before Murdoch took over. It first appeared in 1964,...

26. The development business
(News/Latest)

...also earn surprisingly good returns, often for middlemen who are paid to invest on governments' behalf, writes Stephen Gardner. Who benefits most from the activities of government-owned developmen...

27. What's the big idea?
(EU Insider/News and comment)

..., or will a Barroso II Commission set out a revised sustainable economic and environmental vision for Europe, asks Stephen Gardner. Past colleges of European Commissioners have been defined by a big i...

28. Shadow hangs over Euro Parliament construction finance
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...ment is less happy to talk about some of the financing arrangements behind the buildings' construction, writes Stephen Gardner. The Parliament leases the buildings, known as the Willy Brandt and J...

29. Beyond Copenhagen
(Climate doom/News and analysis)

Stephen Gardner has co-edited with Juan Delgado Beyond Copenhagen: a climate policymaker's handbook, which is published by Brussels think tank Bruegel. The book looks prospects for a deal to succ

30. Full speed towards Stockholm
(EU Insider/News and comment)

...e on organised crime and terrorism. But with its latest plans, the Commission may have over-reached itself, writes Stephen Gardner. Under what is known as the Stockholm Programme – to which EU l...