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Talks under way on inter-governmental treaty; Poland concerned about latest draft. Leaders of EU member states have started talks in Brussels, with most of the text of an...

Liberal MEP could be replaced by her husband amid concern that move will hurt Parliament's image. The announcement by Diana Wallis, a UK Liberal MEP, that she intends to step...

Has Martin Schulz dropped a clanger as European Parliament president? Martin Schulz obviously wanted to make a big noise when he became president of the European Parliament...

Finance ministers from the eurozone's 17 member states will hold their first meeting of the year on Monday (23 January), with little sign that the sovereign-debt crisis is...

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...

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...

Commission tells Hungary it has five days to bring its constitution into line with EU law. Hungary has been given five days to bring its new constitutional provisions into...

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...

Olli Rehn says Eurobonds must come with deeper economic and political integration Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, admitted today...

ALDE leader opposes bid by Diana Wallis but Wallis says she will continue ‘until the end'. How Deva, Schulz and Wallis voted in the past two years Is Diana Wallis...

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...

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...

But former foreign minister says UK veto on treaty change leaves UK “in a mess”. Senior UK government officials and UK Conservative MEPs have rallied around a decision by...

British MEP is preparing to say goodbye to the euro. Attending a conference on mortgages in England on 1 December, Sharon Bowles, the British Liberal MEP who chairs the...

The long-delayed formation of a government in Belgium brings to an end an interesting post-modern experiment in apolitical politics. At just the moment that the leaders of...

Senior politicians say treaty change should wait until euro crisis is under control; convention needed for democratic legitimacy. A group of senior European politicians has...

Wallis's presidential bid could affect calculations, while Socialists eye chair of economic committee. The presidential candidacy of Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP, is...

British MEP has been elected president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party. Graham Watson, sometime leader of the liberal group (ALDE) in the European...

EU leaders to hold summit next week with Germany still refusing to support Eurobonds. Eurozone seeks IMF support Protecting banks France and Germany are...

Liberal MEP challenges Schulz's bid for top job, but ALDE group has so far refused to back candidacy. Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP, announced yesterday (30 November)...