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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...

Is the Parliament's leadership more representative of Europe's population than the EU's unelected commissioners? Two years ago, when European commissioners were being...

Draft criticised for not being tough enough. Hungary could pay the penalty for failing to cut budget deficit France to push ahead with plans for a financial...

Brok, Verhofstadt and Italy's Gaultieri to represent Parliament In working group The European Parliament today chose three MEPs to join a group that will draft a ‘fiscal...

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...

EPP seeks to minimise disruption and S&D could lose two vice-presidential posts. Strasbourg notebook Parliament briefing MEPs spent much of their week in Strasbourg...

Political pact is supposed to guarantee that German MEP gets the role. Martin Schulz has launched a campaign to win wider support for his bid to succeed Jerzy Buzek as...

EU officials hope formal agreement can be reached around the weekend. The European Union is struggling to put in place sanctions that could dissuade the Syrian authorities...

Hungary's prime minister defends media law and tells MEPs to stay out of domestic politics. Viktor Orbán, Hungary's prime minister, lashed out at critics of his country's...

MEPs are unhappy at the tactics used during budget negotiations The compromise agreement that the European Parliament reached with member states on next year's EU budget has...

A football pundit who's as green as the pitch. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-leader of the Green group in the European Parliament, is to become a football pundit on France's...

Commission president sets out priorities during 'State of the Union' address. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, called on EU member...

The MEP who often ends up with a starring role. Eva Joly is accustomed to being in the limelight, even if she is a relative newcomer to the European Parliament. So it was no...

Parliament president says he believe Van Rompuy will fulfil role of co-ordinator. Political groups in the European Parliament have given a broad but restrained welcome to...

Foreign ministers agree to set up new body and Swedish presidency to start talks with the US. The US will have to ask a designated EU body if it can have access to...

Agreement would see the US continue to get access to information held by the SWIFT financial network. EU foreign ministers today approved a negotiating mandate for the...

Swedish prime minister says delay will prevent the EU taking on a leading global role. Frederik Reinfeldt, the prime minister of Sweden, which takes over the presidency of...

Isabelle Durant elected Green candidate for European Parliament vice-president. The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament have elected Daniel Cohn-Bendit...

Group says Christian Engström shares their belief in protecting internet users' rights. The Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström will join the...