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Germany · 6 Mar 2019 Weber insists that Turkey will not become an EU member Manfred Weber, the European Peoples Party's (EPP) lead candidate to be the new EU Commission President , Wednesday insisted that Turkey will… European Parliament · 6 Mar 2019 EPP to discuss Fidesz expulsion The EPP President Joseph Daul told German newspaper Die Welt that the expulsion of Hungary's Fidesz party is on the agenda of… Hungary · 3 Mar 2019 Viktor Orbán calls EPP antagonists ‘useful idiots’ Politico reported that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán labelled those in the European People's Party (EPP) critical of his party, "useful idiots".… European Parliament · 2 Mar 2019 Polls indicate La Lega to be top Italian party and second at the EP elections Italian news agency ANSA reported that in the upcoming May European Parliament (EP)elections Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's far-right group La Lega will… European Parliament · 25 Nov 2018 MEP Election Watch – Greens choose candidates for Commission President The European Greens picked Germany’s Ska Keller and Dutchman Bas Eickhout as co-candidates for European Commission president, at the party’s congress Saturday,… European Parliament · 21 Jun 2018 EU Parliamentary President Antonio Tajani to visit Libya The Libya Observer: The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, declared his intention to visit Libya and Niger in the coming… European Parliament · 14 Jun 2018 Number of MEPs to be reduced to 705 from the current 751 after the UK leaves EU The European Parliament will shrink from 751 to 705 MEPs when the United Kingdom leaves the EU, leaving room for new countries… European Parliament · 7 Jun 2018 Will the EU Parliament be lost in translation? Next week’s European Parliament plenary week in Strasbourg could be disrupted by a series of strikes by interpreters, who plan to stop… European Parliament · 5 Jun 2018 European Parliament sets up group to monitor investigations into the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Jan Kuciak Reuters report that the European Parliament set up a group of lawmakers who will monitor the investigations into the murders of Daphne… European Parliament · 30 May 2018 New anti-dumping rules approved by European Parliament Higher tariffs can be imposed on dumped or subsidised imports to better protect EU jobs and businesses, under a December 2017 informal… European Parliament · 22 May 2018 Facebook’s Zuckerberg and his European Parliament grilling At the end the much anticipated grilling ended up with more questions than answers. The pertinent points raised by various MEPs, were… EU Commission · 9 May 2018 My Dream of A Truly EU Member State – Matthias Bartolo (16 Year old European Maltese) The following are the views of Matthias Bartolo, a 16 year old Sixth Form Student attending St Martin’s College. Politics is a…