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The erosion of traditional political lines is helping extremist parties gain traction. The attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo and on the island of...

European centre-right leaders meet in Finland's capital. The first in a series of meetings aimed at finalising reforms to economic governance in the eurozone will come...

Europe's non-believers come to Brussels. The presidents of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament (all of them Christian Democrats) have...

The Sweden Democrats and other far-right parties have enjoyed electoral success, and they may get even stronger. The outcome of the recent Swedish elections has brought into...

Local issues dominate Norwegian election and EU membership is kept off the agenda. What should you campaign on to win a general election in one of the world's richest...

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt struggles to secure wide backing for José Manuel Barroso and postpones meeting with the Parliament's group leaders. Swedish...

Merkel and Sarkozy finally reach agreement There is little on which Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel agree these days – neither on economic rescue plans nor the way to...

Martens hints that UK Conservative Party could stay in the European Parliament's centre-right group. José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission's president, remains...

A study of political families in Europe finds national parties reluctant to surrender power. The meeting last week (16 September) of Angela Merkel, the chancellor of...

For the last 21 years, the presidency of the European People's Party, the federation of centre-right parties, has been in the grip of Benelux politicians. Former Belgian...

David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and aspirant to become UK prime minister, continues to play hard-to-get with his counterparts who head centre-right parties...

The European People's Party (EPP) held a party this week (18 September) to mark the official opening of its new headquarters in Brussels's rue du Commerce. The offices,...

The German delegation made its dominance over the European People's Party (EPP) felt, securing two leadership posts at the party's congress in Rome last week (30-31 March)....

VIEWED from Brussels, the death of Pope John Paul II underlines some differences between the UK and its neighbours. Those differences have had a lasting effect on Britain's...

The EU was in many ways Roman Catholic in origin, the creation of Christian Democrats such as Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi. Among the more...

TURKEY'S ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party is poised to join the EU's most influential political grouping, the European People's Party, despite the opposition of...

ALL federalist roads were leading to Rome last weekend as, in addition to the Greens launching what they call the first ever genuine European party, a group of 30 MEPs...

MEMBERS of the EU's most powerful political force are divided over an effort to prevent former communists from taking positions in the Union's key bodies. Centre-right...

THE deputy leader of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has challenged the European People's Party to accept the AKP's membership bid, warning that a united...

TURKISH leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to create turmoil in the European People's Party group after announcing that he wants his ruling Justice and Development Party to...