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Support for report calling for the widening of public access to EU documents. MEPs today backed an overhaul of EU transparency rules and the widening of public access...

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...

MEPs split over making data public ahead of next week's plenary session. MEPs are expected to back a call to overhaul EU transparency rules and widen public access to EU...

The European Commission has promoted Claire Bury, currently head of unit for corporate governance and social responsibility in the department for the internal market and...

Has the ALDE group finally found the right man for the job. The ALDE group has made a meal of finding a replacement for Luigi de Magistris as chairman of the Parliament's...

Swedish MEP moves on. Swedish Liberal MEP Lena Ek has moved on to greater things. She has become Sweden's environment minister, in the government re-shuffle triggered by a...

VoteWatch looked at voting behaviour within each of the three main political groups. VoteWatch also examined voting behaviour within each of the three main political groups,...

Report calls for increase in budget contributions; Parliament also to debate cultivation of GM crops. MEPs are expected during their July plenary session in Strasbourg to...

Economic governance talks have stalled, while MEPsare to vote on food labelling law in July. With only a week of its presidency of the Council of Ministers remaining, the...

Compromise deal leaves decision to block websites with national governments.

Liberal group struggles to fill vacancies. Could it be that a political group led by Guy Verhofstadt lacks talent and ambition? The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for...

Plenary debates should be limited to mornings, while afternoons should be dedicated to committees.

Economic and monetary affairs committee votes on proposals to ensure better economic discipline in the EU. MEPs are calling for economic governance rules that, in most...

MEP misses greenery in Strasbourg. Of some MEPs it might be said that ‘their bark is worse than their bite'. But for one MEP, a lack of bark has been causing a problem.

MEPs to discuss plans aimed at job creation and reviews of progress by Iceland and Macedonia. MEPs are expected during their next plenary session in Strasbourg to back calls...

Lead MEP caters to Green and Socialist demands, but Member states want rules to be limited to online sales. The new directive on consumer rights may at last win wide support...

Problems in the Alsatian capital. For many people, securing a room has become a stressful exercise. “The best-priced hotels are already booked,” says Sidonia...

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...

MEPs vote for tax to provide a new source of revenue for the EU. Martin Schulz, the leader of the centre-left Socialists and Democrats group of MEPs, has launched an attack...

Hunagary bows to pressure to change its disputed media law. MEPs in the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group were examining an offer by the Hungarian government to...