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Denmark's prime minister is struggling to cope on the domestic stage. Here is some good news for European Commission stagiaires, MEPs' assistants – even for the MEPs...

One of Germany's most repected civil servants is off to the ECB. Two years ago, in an article entitled “Who really governs us”, the German news magazine

Lithuanian wants his immunity back. Lithuanian Liberal MEP Viktor Uspaskich is hoping that the Parliament's legal affairs committee might reinstate his parliamentary...

Social Democrats ahead in the polls but all main parties accept that tough times lie ahead. A late surge of support for the centre-right Social Democrat party (PSD) has...

Finnish opposition parties against bail-out plans, while deal needs approval from all eurozone states. Portugal's hopes of receiving a €78 billion bail-out depend on...

Prime Minister Andrus Ansip is in a position to form a majority coalition. Estonia's governing centre-right coalition is in a position to serve a second term, after...

Reinfeldt is re-elected, but Swedish Democrats grab 20 seats. Sweden's centre-right coalition was given another four years in power in yesterday's general election. But for...

Traian Basescu may have been re-elected as Romania's president, but he has a lot of work to do to restore stability. Traian Basescu will attend the European Council that...

Portugal's Socialists face second defeat of the year as the far-left set to make big gains. In the relatively short history of Portugual's democracy, no one can remember a...

Prime Minister Jóse Sócrates's party left with only five MEPs. Portugal's ruling Socialist party has lost ground in the European Parliament, according to...

Social Democrat Party and Democrat Liberal Party set to get same number of MEPs. The Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Democrat Liberal Party (PD-L), the two parties in...

The centre-right European People's Party triumphs. Smaller parties fare well. Parliament more fractured. The centre-right European People's Party was celebrating tonight...

The fall and rise of Emil Boc At the age of 42, Emil Boc is the youngest prime minister that post-communist Romania has had – and also the poorest. Celebrated by many as a...

Possible European Parliament replacement for Slovenia's male-model premier-in-waiting has some history. Borut Pahor used to be an MEP who was once a male model. Now it...

Bundsrat vote makes Germany the 14th state to approve the Treaty of Lisbon. The German parliament has completed the process of ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon, with the...

Bosnian parliament struggles late into the night to approve police reform demanded by the EU. In a last-ditch effort and after numerous delays, the Bosnian parliament late...

The decision to hold a referendum on the same day as Romania holds its first European Parliament elections is confusing the electorate, writes Ana Jitărită....

Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has again been flaunting his support for those financial institutions which Germany's vice-chancellor Franz Münterfering in...