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Chris Huhne can't escape the Parliament. Is this the revenge of the European Parliament? Chris Huhne, the UK's energy minister, resigned from the British government last...

Diana Wallis's husband won't be taking her seat in the European Parliament. The will he?/won't he? saga that has gripped (most of) Europe is over.

Hungary's prime minister tells MEPs that his country is undergoing an 'exciting process of renewal'. Hungary taken to task Matolcsy on the defensive Viktor...

Leaders want ESM to have greater powers but Parliamentary approval is required in Finland. The decisions taken at the European Council are intended not only to enforce...

As Denmark takes the helm of the EU presidency, who are the ministers to watch out for? Helle Thorning-Schmidt – prime minister

European Council president tells EU leaders that there is a choice: a quick way or a slower process, involving treaty change. Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European...

The crisis initially seemed an opportunity to reduce Greece's democratic deficit. It has instead increased it. Democracy is usually the first casualty of severe economic...

Leaders aiming to finalise plans to recapitalise banks, strengthen bail-out fund and deal with crisis in Greece. United front masks major disagreements Greece to...

Austria's finance minister has a reputation for hardness. Trying to sum up any person in two words is usually invidious, but few would argue with the Austrian newspaper that...

University of Bonn says it found that liberal MEP had copied parts of doctoral thesis. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, a German liberal MEP, has today been stripped of his doctor's...

EU troubles leave imprint on formation of new governments. The troubled relationship of the European Union with its member states has left its imprint on the formation of...

A taxing problem for Danish Social Democrat. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of Denmark's Social Democrats and an MEP in 1999-2004, is doing her best to ruin a great...

Austria's 'nice guy' vice-chancellor is now in the spotlight. In another life, Michael Spindelegger might have been in a hole holding bones instead of pressing the flesh of...

Austrian MEP fancies a job in Kosovo. Ulrike Lunacek, an Austrian Green MEP, has confirmed that she has applied to head the EU's liaison office in Kosovo. (It is effectively...

It's the end of the Western European Union - or is it? European organisations have a tendency to proliferate, so the dissolution of the parliamentary assembly of the Western...

Timo Soini is no longer the one True Finn. Timo Soini, the leader of the populist and Eurosceptic True Finns, has outgrown the European Parliament. In the Finnish general...

Flemish nationalist heads to London. David Cameron, the British prime minister, ruffled a few francophone Belgian feathers last week by playing host in London to Bart De...

Dick Roche loses out. So farewell Dick Roche, Ireland's surprisingly durable European affairs minister. He held that post from 2002-04, after which he was promoted to...

Governments concerned about transfer of powers. National governments are struggling to provide reassurance to their voters that they are maintaining control over decisions...

Member states want to tighten aid conditions,while Ashton will tell Mubarak that country's aid is at risk. Pressure is growing for the EU to reconsider aid to Egypt worth...