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18 additional MEPs formally take up seats in Parliament. An additional 18 MEPs will officially take up their seats today (12 December) at the final plenary session of the...

Who will be the next leader of the Socialists and Democrats group? When Martin Schulz ascends (as he hopes) to the presidency of the European Parliament in January, who will...

British MEP launches his bid for top job. Stephen Hughes, a British Labour MEP, has launched his campaign to become the next leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in...

Who might take over as the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group of MEPs? If Martin Schulz does, as everyone expects, succeed Jerzy Buzek as president of the...

Improving attendance of Parliamentary debates will be one of group's main priorities. Hannes Swoboda, a Austrian centre-left MEP  and vice-president of the Socialists...

Austrian MEP quits and leaves behind Martin and Martin. Austrian MEP Angelika Werthmann was elected to the European Parliament last year on the list ‘Dr Martin –...

MEPs complain about the lack of influence on the formation of the EEAS. MEPs have complained about a lack of access to the group that is advising Catherine Ashton, the EU's...

Some of the new MEPs are political veterans. Others boast less orthodox backgrounds.

A breakdown of how the election went in every EU country.

Expertise and seniority not enough to put seasoned MEPs in the safety zone. After 14 years as an MEP, Austrian Johannes Voggenhuber (pictured), who has topped his country's...

Schulz shows his claws, but not his face. Martin Schulz will be missing from the annual debate between leaders of the European Parliament's three biggest political groups...

The two biggest political groups in the European Parliament are opposing calls to make public an internal audit report which found widespread problems with MEPs'...

The new leader of the European Parliament's biggest political group says he favours re-opening the issue of where the EU's institutions are based, but Strasbourg would have...

The centre-right group in the European Parliament, the European People's Party-European Democrats, has brought forward the date for choosing a new leader by one week so that...

The centre-right EPP-ED group in the European Parliament has been forced to change its rules of procedure to avoid damaging splits over who should lead the group until 2009....

As the European Parliament approaches the mid-point of its five-year term, all kinds of deals to share plum posts are in the offing. It looks as if Austrian Socialist MEP...

Making sure that member states correctly implement EU law is a top priority for MEPs and the European Commission. The UK Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff wants the European...

Tony Blair is expected to face criticism of the UK's presidency of the EU when he appears before MEPs next Wednesday (26 October). Blair was widely praised on his last...

MEPS' Christmas shopping has been thrown into confusion amid denials that Europe's taxpayers have been footing the bill for their presents. Austrian MEP Othmar Karas, who is...

FAR-right parties this week appeared to have failed in their bid to join forces in a new political group inside the European Parliament. Leaders from five parties had...