The coalition of fund managers that led the campaign against an EU bonus cap is drawing up a code of standards over how their staff are paid to ward off further onerous proposals.

David Crookes' father died of mesothelioma last week. To mark Action Mesothelioma Day this Friday, he urges more action to combat the use of asbestos

Brussels has backed down on plans to impose strict bonus caps on fund managers operating across Europe in a move welcomed by the City.

The leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, was stripped of her parliamentary immunity, opening the way for charges of inciting racial hatred to be laid against her.

Pity Britain's 73 MEPs. They have more opportunity to shape legislation than most backbench MPs at Westminster but remain unknown and unreported. A higher salary and a daily allowance are only partial compensation for being hardly acknowledged, even in the region they represent.

MEP is revealed to have set up a trust fund on the Isle of Man

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces prosecution for “inciting religious hatred” after a European Parliament committee decided to lift her parliamentary immunity.

Have they ever considered the consequences the decision to leave the EPP has had for their party?

If the EU really wants to reconnect with the voters then it needs to learn to respect nation states

Immunity granted to her as a member of European Parliament has been lifted

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But David Cameron could face a vote of confidence in an attempt to oust him as Conservative leader before the 2015 general election

Greenpeace warn watered down proposals threaten the chances of reforming rules

In terms of wielding real power, these parties rarely make headway