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Controversial agreement has split MEPs; Socialist asked to draft Parliament's stance. A left-wing alliance in the European Parliament is bidding to

Isabelle Durant, a Brussels native who has taken a short trip to the European Parliament. “Isabelle Durant is a friend of the Marxist guerrilla movement and has come here...

18 additional MEPs formally take up seats in Parliament. An additional 18 MEPs will officially take up their seats today (12 December) at the final plenary session of the...

Foratom's director-general says there is no problem with safety. A senior European nuclear industry executive has criticised the German government's decision to close down...

The German chancellor's communications failure is inextricably linked to how she operates politically. Stepping out of the arrivals hall of Berlin's Tegel airport last week,...

Social Democrats and Greens take control of Baden-Württemberg. Germany's Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have lost control of...

MEPs scale back spending demands. MEPs have scaled back their demands from the European Parliament's administrative spending next year by €48 million, but much of the...

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...

Fine Gael, Labour win record number of seats while voters punish Fianna Fail. The opposition Fine Gael is set to lead the next Irish government, most likely in coalition...

Green Party pulls out of government after Brian Cowen's decision to quit as Fianna Fáil leader. The date of the general election in Ireland is likely to be brought forward...

Payment justified by limits on employment Louis Michel, the former European commissioner for development, has defended his right to an allowance for ex-commissioners worth...

Parliament votes in favour of bank data-sharing deal, but Greens say it does not do enough to protect EU citizens. The European Parliament today approved a EU-US deal...

Civil liberties committee approves data transfer deal, with entire Parliament to vote on Thursday. The European Parliament's civil liberties committee has approved a...

The European Parliament yesterday approved the appointment of José Manuel Barroso for a second term as president of the European Commission. We look at who gained what...

Left groups, Greens and Liberals want to wait amid warnings that delay would weaken the EU. Four of the European Parliament's political groups want to delay a vote on a...

A breakdown of how the election went in every EU country.

CDU/CSU win 42 seats in the European Parliament elections despite a drop in support. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel remains Germany's...

Labour slumps to worst electoral result since the war; British National Party makes breakthrough. The UK's Labour party suffered its worst election result since the Second...

The liberal Free Democratic Party has made its biggest gains in the German elections for the European Parliament and is set to double its number of MEPs to 12, according to...

Centre-right party set keep six MEPs, while the SPÖ drops to five. The centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) has overtaken the Social Democrats (SPÖ) as the...