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MEP may be quitting but she will keep close links with the Parliament. On the management board of the European Parliament's planned House of European History is a certain...

Welle's Welt expands as Klaus settles in for a long reign. Klaus Welle took over on Monday (16 March) as secretary-general of the European Parliament, so the Parliament is...

Filling the rungs on the ladder below Hans-Gert Pöttering. There are only three months remaining of the glorious reign of Hans-Gert Pöttering as president of the...

The art of climbing with all deliberate haste. The European Parliament's political leadership – the bureau – announced on Friday (5 December) that Klaus Welle, currently...

Head of European Parliament president's cabinet to take over the running of the Parliament. Klaus Welle has been confirmed as the next secretary-general of the...

Time for a good insurance policy. Harald Rømer, the secretary-general of the European Parliament, has declared that an agreement is close with the Belgian authorities on...

European Parliament to meet in Strasbourg in October, two months after repairs began. The European Parliament will hold its October plenary session in Strasbourg, the...

Surveyors find further safety problems; officials are looking for temporary solution. Surveyors have found further safety problems with the European Parliament buildings in...

MEPs on the budgetary control committee have renewed their threat to delay approval of the EU's 2006 accounts. They are demanding prior agreement from the Commission and...

The European Parliament's administration has performed a major U-turn on monitoring MEPs' expenses, Paul van Buitenen, the Dutch Green MEP and former Commission...

Very poor timing by Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, who chose this week to make an official visit to London, to visit Queen Elizabeth II,...

The two biggest political groups in the European Parliament are opposing calls to make public an internal audit report which found widespread problems with MEPs'...

A secret report by the European Parliament's own internal auditor has found major problems affecting the €140 million that MEPs pay to assistants each year. OLAF, the...

It might be unhelpful to give greater publicity to this issue, so here goes...A report on a meeting between Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European...

The leaders of the European Parliament have agreed a communications strategy for the 2009 elections in a bid to counter the trend of falling voter turnout. The strategy will...

One of the EU's five secretary-generalships is about to fall vacant. The leaders of the European Economic and Social Committee decided at a meeting this week that it would...

The empire of Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, is ever-expanding. MEPs from his own party, the EPP, have been commenting that his private...

Harald Rømer, the Parliament's secretary-general, has written to his directors-general, drawing their attention to a round table that is being called by the committee for...

Plans to improve the EU's publicity machine in London are flagging. The European Parliament and European Commission were planning to create a joint London Information Office...