Government ministers are scaremongering about European migration to avoid "real subjects in the UK", says Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission.

The TUC has lodged a complaint with the European Commission against the UK government for failing to implement the Temporary Agency Workers Directive.

A dialogue seminar on a European social market economy took place on 14 December 2012 at the European Commission in Brussels.

Catholic bishops have called on the EU to tackle corporate tax dodging. They say it deprives the world’s poorest countries of more than £100bn every year.