Brussels Blog

 I don't get back to London as often as I would like, so I was pleased to pay a flying visit this week. I always stay at the Victory Ser...

I have in front of me a fascinating little booklet from the Belgian Federal Finance Office. It is all about a new and innovative tax initiat...

Tonight it is Holloween... and I must confess to a fondness for these Pagan festivals. For those of us who live in the "European Quar...

There are three words that send chills of panic through my body - "contemporary classical music". I have another name for it, of c...

I devoted a lot of my life to campaigning for the UK Independence Party. However, not being a dogmatic and closed-minded yes-man, I subseque...

I was very lucky this week. On Tuesday I dined - for the second time this year - with Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry. He is a lovely gentleman, who...

Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, Belgacom has excelled itself! Belgacom, as you may know if you read this blog, is not ...

This was a very important day, although it was barely mentioned by the media. It was the day on which Germany finally discharged its obligat...

The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was marked in the European Parliament this week. I took it upon myself to invite a group of co...

Jean Rey was the second President of the European Commission, and there is a small and rather odd square named after him near my home. It ha...

At the age of 42, the good Lord blessed me with a son. Thanks to George I am now reliving my own childhood, and do you know what? Its even b...

Party conferences can be depressing, and I stopped inflicting that particular pain on myself some years ago. This year is different, however...