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José Manuel Barroso is wrong to suggest political reform based on a model that emerged from the UK. In constructing Europe's monetary union, political leaders did not...

Croatian MEPs will have a difficult start. Although Croatia will not join the European Union until 1 July 2013, the preparations are starting early. One of the most difficult...

EPP has an alternative ‘energy intensity' interpretation. You wrote two weeks ago that member states are trying to weaken the energy-efficiency directive (“Member states...

EPP seeks to minimise disruption and S&D could lose two vice-presidential posts. Strasbourg notebook Parliament briefing MEPs spent much of their week in Strasbourg...

Nirj Deva plays it low-key for a change. The European Conservatives and Reformists group has formally decided to approve the candidacy of Nirj Deva for the presidency of the...

MEPs say Commission lacks budget ambitions. Members of the European Parliament's budgets committee are expected to call for the EU's 2012 budget to focus on jobs and growth,...

UK's Kirkhope loses out to central European for second time. Jan Zahradil, a Czech MEP from the Civic Democrats (ODS), has been elected as leader of the European...

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...

Formation of a government remains at least three weeks away. The clear outlines of a three-party, centre-right coalition emerged from the Czech general election on 28-29...

The unorthodox act of political courage on the part of David Cameron and Nick Clegg could prove revolutionary. Volcanoes have consequences – and I'm not just thinking...

Coalition politics have obliged the British Conservatives to soften their stance towards the European Union, but appearances may flatter. The formation of the new British...

Leader of the UK Conservatives seeks support from the Liberal Democrats in bid to form new government. David Cameron, the leader of the UK Conservatives, has offered to make...

Staff move between the groups and secretariat; Parliament's Secretariat accused of seeking to delay report A dispute among MEPs over how the European Parliament spends its...

Commissioner takes responsibility for everything. Viviane Reding has a reputation as a European commissioner who gets results, but can she deliver a rapprochement between...

Committee of the Regions takes a leaf out of European Parliament's book. The Committee of the Regions likes to pride itself on offering something different from the European...

Socialists and Liberals deny that Bulgarian nominee's candidacy was sabotaged. The withdrawal of Rumiana Jeleva's candidacy for the European Commission has triggered...

Wilfried Martens, the former Belgian prime minister, was re-elected on 9 December as president of the European People's Party (EPP). His new term runs until 2012. Antonio...

Is the chairman of the Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee proof that the UK Conservatives are serious about Europe? With an election in the UK...

The UK Conservatives don't know where they are supposed to be. David Cameron evoked principles when he took his UK Conservative party out of the European People's Party:...

By agreeing on its next president in secrecy, the Parliament is working against its own principles of more transparency. The European Parliament appears to have problems...