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The checkered career of Marta Andreasen. Marta Andreasen, an MEP for the

Catherine Ashton criticised for taking a trip to Australia. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has come in for criticism in Britain for visiting the...

British MEP's choice of music upsets anarchists. A row has broken out between Nigel Farage, co-president of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European...

ECR group becomes Parliament's fourth-largets group. The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group is poised to become the fourth largest political group in the...

David Bannerman moves from UK Independence Party to Conservatives. David Bannerman, a UK Independence Party MEP, has joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)...

UKIP MEP gets hit in the wallet. Godfrey Bloom, a member of the European Parliament for the UK Independence Party, was given a €2,100 fine by Jerzy Buzek, the...

A European court throws out MEP Marta Andreasen's claim of unfair dismissal from the Commission Marta Andreasen, who was sacked as chief accountant of the European...

Anti-fraud office launched 41 cases in Bulgaria in 2009 as more hotlines increase number of investigations. Bulgaria accounted for nearly one-fifth of investigations...

Brits scramble to defend their eggs. As Eurosceptic scare-stories go, this week's egg episode was a classic of its kind. At the bidding of the UK Independence Party and the...

Winners and losers in the UK general election. The overall outcome of the general election in Britain last Thursday (6 May) was not immediately clear, but one minor point of...

UKIP MEP taken to hospital after light aircraft crashed on morning UK general election. Nigel Farage, co-president of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the...

Surprise, it's a UK general election. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed this week what everyone had known for a long time: that the UK will have a general election on...

UK MEP could be suspended over personal attack on European Council president. Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party MEPs, has refused to issue a...

Personal attack on Belgian leader of the EU's highest body lands UK Eurosceptic in hot water. The leader of the UK Independence Party's group in the European Parliament may...

Latvian commissioner-designate picks his way through a minefield in parliamentary hearing. Some were surprised by the choice of Andris Piebalgs for development, or at least...

The EU's new high representative will have to be a quick learner to get to grips with her new job. The European Union's new institutional arrangements for managing foreign...

Telecoms package MEPs and national governments agreed on 4 November the last element of a package of reforms to EU telecoms regulation – procedures to be followed to cut...

Former UKIP MEP Tom Wise sentenced to two years in prison for fiddling European Parliament funds. Tom Wise, a former MEP from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), was...

Tom Wise tells court he illegally pocketed €40,000 from the European Parliament. Tom Wise, a former MEP from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), admitted before a court...