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S&D leader wins in first round. Martin Schulz, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group of MEPs, has been elected European Parliament president.

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...

The ex-president who burned his Spanish boats finds refuge in Italy. Josep Borrell (pictured), president of the European Parliament from July 2005 to the end of 2007, now...

Bringing the European Development Fund into the EU budget will allow for more effective and better co-ordinated action. The European Parliament has long called on the...

Hans-Gert Pöttering, the newly elected European Parliament president, has called on MEPs to agree to “comprehensive reform” of the assembly. Giving his inaugural...

The battle for control of the Parliament's 24 committees has been much messier than the stitched-up agreement to see Hans-Gert Pöttering succeed Josep Borrell as...

The exit strategy is almost in place. When Josep Borrell steps down as president of the parliament next week, it seems that he will be heading for the chairmanship of the...

The next president of the Parliament will be Hans-Gert Pöttering, a good colleague of mine since the first direct elections in 1979. We are not asked to judge if he is...

German centre-right MEP Hans-Gert Pöttering is poised to be elected as president of the European Parliament by a large majority. MEPs will vote next Tuesday (16...

Josep Borrell is still president of the European Parliament for a few weeks yet but perhaps he is already mentally out of office. Like Chirac (see left) Borrell was asked...

Danish Independence MEP Jens-Peter Bonde on Wednesday became the fourth politician to announce he would be a candidate to replace Josep Borrell as president of the...

Pro-reform MEPs are stepping up pressure on Hans-Gert Pöttering to sign up to further changes in Parliament's rules and procedures before he is elected Parliament...

In a little more than eight weeks' time, Josep Borrell will cease to be president of the European Parliament, so what does he do then? The Socialist MEP has been weighing up...

The role of president of the European Parliament is not an easy one. The president has to represent an institution in which establishing a consensus or majority view is...

A cut-out and keep guide to how patronage works at the Parliament. The Spanish socialist Josep Borrell is to step down as president of the European Parliament on 1 January,...

Ex-journalist turned MEP, Hans Peter Martin, looks unlikely to make it into the Austrian parliament, after his ‘List for Transparency' polled only around 2.8% of the vote...

The imminent coronation of EPP-ED group leader Hans-Gert Pöttering as president of the European Parliament is creating ripples of expectancy further down the assembly's...

There was a conspicuous absence of the subject of immigration from the Finnish president's address during the last plenary session of the Parliament. It was all the more...

Joseph Daul, a farmer and native of Strasbourg, is odds-on favourite to become the chairman of the European Parliament's biggest political group, the centre-right EPP-ED,...

Hans-Gert Pöttering, chairman of the European Parliament's largest group, the EPP-ED, has poured cold water on plans by Josep Borrell to reform the assembly's working...