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The liberal centrists in the European Parliament, already torn by internal rifts, have a new dilemma: the presence of Czech business mogul Andrej Babiš’s increasingly conservative ANO party, which counters their core values but may bring valuable seats in the EU elections.

Lobbyists from US tech giant Amazon should have their access badges to the European Parliament revoked “until the company’s management is willing to engage in genuine dialogue with the Parliament,” members of the Parliament's employment committee have written in a letter to the institution's president, Roberta Metsola.

Malik Azmani’s chances at becoming the new Renew group chief are dwindling as centrist EU lawmakers criticise his party’s involvement in coalition talks with the Dutch far-right, favouring French President Emmanuel Macron’s pick, Valérie Hayer.

Renew Europe chief Stéphane Séjourné’s departure has triggered an internal quest to pick a new president for the EU Parliament’s liberals, with a meeting of the group leaders scheduled on Wednesday to agree on a course to follow for the internal electioneering.

Stéphane Séjourné, Emmanuel Macron’s top man in the European Parliament and Renew Group’s President, was appointed Foreign Affairs minister on Thursday (11 January), leaving a question mark as to who will lead Macron’s party in the EU elections.

European Council President Charles Michel's surprise announcement over the weekend that he would step down by July is likely to force the pro-European forces' to speed up negotiations over the EU's top jobs following the elections in June.

The nature of the implementation of the European Commission's controversial directive to limit foreign interference will be up to leaders of member states, Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica explained in an interview with Euractiv.

Twenty-six members of the European Parliament are set to receive coal from Santa Claus this Christmas, according to 2023's 'Naughty List', seen by Euractiv. From fraud and kickbacks to harassment and the spreading of fake news, no political group but the Greens has been spared.

The history of EU integration is littered with examples of leaders using creative thinking to work around the bloc’s awkward members when unanimity is urgently needed to move ahead. 

The European Commission has unveiled a new law designed to force interest and lobbying groups working for non-EU actors to register on a transparency register as part of its plans to protect against malign influence in EU politics.

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by a nonprofit based in San Francisco. Created in 1996, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past.

In this edition of EU Politics Decoded, we set the scene ahead of next week's showdown between EU leaders and Hungary's Viktor Orbán over Ukraine's EU accession status.

Civil society groups have underlined their concerns about a European Commission draft directive on foreign agents expected to be published in the coming days, warning that it could break the bloc’s own laws. 

Any journalist working in and around the EU knows that receiving jargon-riddled press releases is a frustrating but inevitable hazard of the job.  

The European Parliament has agreed to open an office in Ukraine as a way to boost its support for the Ukrainian Parliament, following requests by top Ukrainian government officials, according to a document from the European Parliament bureau seen by Euractiv.

Green EU lawmaker Ernest Urtasún has joined Spain's new government as the minister of culture and The Left’s MEP Sira Rego will be the new minister for youth and children, the new-old Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday (20 November),

England may be out of the EU, but English has not gone anywhere. If anything, its position as the first language in Brussels is more entrenched than ever. This has long been a sore point for some French officials. 

No one could accuse members of the European Parliament of lacking ambition in cajoling EU leaders into reopening the EU treaties. 

The European Parliament has set its internal deadlines for the legislative files to be approved within the end of this legislative mandate, according to a note seen by Euractiv. 

MEPs have called for a major reform of the EU treaties in a report approved on Wednesday (25 October), that would scrap a series of national vetoes and make the bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, more overtly political. 

Polish opposition leader and potential future prime minister Donald Tusk arrived in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the chance to launch the nation’s recovery money, frozen due to the rule of law concerns in Poland. Piotr Maciej Kaczyński and Dariusz Dybka explain the stakes.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has defended herself against accusations of bias by stressing that the EU was working for the safety of civilians "of all faiths and nationalities", according to an internal memo seen by Euractiv.

German MEP Terry Reintke, co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, kickstarted the European Green's lead candidate race by presenting her candidacy on Wednesday (25 October), as reported by Euractiv in September, with more candidates expected by the …

The Catalan government has launched a massive public relations campaign across Europe as negotiations to reform the roster of official EU languages continue with the next ministerial meeting on the subject scheduled for Tuesday (24 October).