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Poland pushing for deal on radion spectrum. Member states and the European Parliament continue to differ on how to free up radio spectrum for mobile broadband services,...

Parliament risks cementing the view that MEPs are out of touch with real developments. You published a special report on financial services last week (9-15 June) and touched...

Some member states see targets as too ambitious. MEPs are expected to vote in favour of ambitious plans to free up more radio spectrum for mobile broadband services when the...

Radio spectrum could be made available by 2013. The Hungarian government, on behalf of the European Union's member states, is aiming to reach an agreement with the European...

Ashton urges Belarus to release political prisoners, while diplomats say additional measures will follow. The European Union is to impose a sweeping travel ban against the...

Swedish Moderate Party MEP Gunnar Hökmark dropped as vice-president of the centre-right group. Swedish Moderate Party MEP Gunnar Hökmark has lost his post of...

European Parliament seeks to keep regulation national and independent. European Union law should give national nuclear safety regulators the power to suspend unsafe...

By pulling strings Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the Party of European Socialists, lobbied against a proposal on cross-border healthcare which was supposed to have been...

For some in the European Parliament, Klaus Welle is the “prince of darkness”, for others he is “the most talented political strategist I have ever come across”....

The fight over the chairs of the European Parliament's committees, some of the most sought-after jobs in the assembly, should finally end this week after a drawn out period...

Midway through the term of the European Parliament, the last few weeks have seen an interesting recomposition of political forces within the assembly. The creation of a new...

The battle for control of the Parliament's 24 committees has been much messier than the stitched-up agreement to see Hans-Gert Pöttering succeed Josep Borrell as...

The new leader of the European Parliament's biggest political group says he favours re-opening the issue of where the EU's institutions are based, but Strasbourg would have...

The centre-right group in the European Parliament, the European People's Party-European Democrats, has brought forward the date for choosing a new leader by one week so that...

The centre-right EPP-ED group in the European Parliament has been forced to change its rules of procedure to avoid damaging splits over who should lead the group until 2009....

EU issues have scarcely featured in the campaigns for Sweden's general elections on 17 September, perhaps because of, rather than despite, support for EU membership being low...

Joseph Daul, a farmer and native of Strasbourg, is odds-on favourite to become the chairman of the European Parliament's biggest political group, the centre-right EPP-ED,...

The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) has launched a campaign calling for an EU directive on public services. The intention is to protect so-called...

EU governments will be able to give up to _150,000 over three years in aid to struggling companies without having to notify the European Commission under plans to be unveiled...

The UK Conservatives are very good at having elections about who should lead them, even if less successful in getting people to vote for those leaders once chosen. The...