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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…
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…
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".…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…