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Controversies and problems in national politics have made this a particularly tough year for the Liberal group in the European Parliament. The Alliance of Liberals and...

France's Europe minister is a combative Atlanticist and long-time loyalist of Nicolas Sarkozy. For France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, there are three types of appointment....

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wins 30 seats in the next European Parliament. France's governing party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) of President Nicolas...

Former adviser to Romano Prodi set to enter the Parliament. François Bayrou, leader of the Mouvement démocrate (which was formerly the UDF and which is part of...

Appointing Jean-Louis Borloo, the most popular member of the outgoing cabinet, to oversee the country's finances is not quite the “break with the past” promised by...

François Bayrou's attempts to carve out territory in the centre-ground of French politics are stuttering. A former MEP himself, in 2004 Bayrou took the 11 UDF MEPs out...

Up north we quickly got the mes-sage that France is and always has been a kind of father figure for the rest of Europe. Paris is mission control when it comes to political...

Jacques Chirac once said of François Bayrou, who aspires to succeed him as French president, that: “One day he will explode with vanity.” It may be this vanity...

France's next president, who will be chosen this spring, will have to find a way to end French citizens' prolonged sulk over both the EU constitution and the enlargement of...

PHILIPPE Douste-Blazy is caricatured on a satirical television show as a puppet called “little genius”. In a recent episode of Les Guignols de l'Info on Canal Plus, the...

Jean-Marie Cavada never knew his mother and father. Or even their names. There are no brothers, sisters, aunts or uncles on his Christmas card list. In fact, no formal record...

A NEW political group in the European Parliament will be launched next week, in a move that could change the balance of power in the assembly and influence the appointment...

STARS from stage, screen and sport will be among those lining up for next week's elections to the European Parliament. An eclectic mix of would-be MEPs will contest the...

France's new commissioner boasts the kind of credentials of which most Euro-enthusiasts could only dream. Jacques Barrot's father Noël, after all, was an...

THE UK's Conservative Party and others wary of EU integration were effectively offered a place in the European Parliament's biggest political group after the June elections,...

LIBERALS in the European Parliament, the assembly's third biggest group, may join forces with the European Free Alliance (EFA) after June's elections, it has emerged....

SECRET talks about forming a federalist-minded political group in the European Parliament took place yesterday (3 March) on the margins of an international affairs...

ALLEGATIONS that former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing may have improperly used his influence to enable a close female friend to win a seat in the European...