EU Institutions

11-06-2024

Resurgent ALDE moves to retake Liberal lead from defeated French

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France’s influence within the liberal Renew Europe group is crumbling following a poor showing in the European elections and Macron's decision to call elections. Is it time for ALDE to seize leadership?

Elections 10-06-2024

How the EU top job horse-trading will game out this week

Est. 5min

With votes cast in the European elections, EU leaders are expected to start already on Monday (10 June) with informal deliberations on how to distribute the four European top jobs. Here's a run-down of what to expect over the next week.

Disinformation 07-06-2024

Facebook and TikTok kill fake news story in Italy

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A fake news story claiming that Italy might leave the EU if there was low turnout at this weekend's elections shared on Italian social media was taken down by big tech platforms this week.

03-06-2024

European Commission should be less political and more impartial, Michel says

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The EU's treaties explicitly provide for the European Commission to be 'impartial', something that the current EU executive has not followed, European Council President Charles Michel told several European media, including Euractiv.

EU Reforms 24-05-2024

Franco-German relation faces familiar challenge ahead of Macron’s Germany trip

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Approaching the first official state visit of a French president to Germany in 24 years, the Franco-German engine is again struggling to design a framework for the EU of the future, but upcoming national elections add unprecedented urgency to their task.

23-05-2024

Who will be your country’s next EU Commissioner?

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With the EU elections approaching fast, member states have started to game out who they will send as their national Commissioner to Brussels, Euractiv takes a closer look at the rumour mill around the candidates, and the portfolio wishes across …

14-05-2024

Brussels protests Eurovision ban on EU flag

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The European Union on Monday (13 May) sent an official complaint to the broadcaster of the Eurovision song contest over its refusal to let participants wave the bloc's flag at this year's final.

13-05-2024

ECR will not give von der Leyen “blank cheque” ahead of elections, says Czech MEP

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European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) do not intend to promise support for Ursula von der Leyen to continue as head of the European Commission, Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra told Euractiv Czechia in an exclusive interview.

30-04-2024

European Commission sells off 23 Brussels buildings

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The European Commission said Monday (29 April) it would raise an estimated €900 million by selling some of its buildings as it seeks to shrink its office space by a quarter.

EU Parliament opens Western Balkan office for enlargement oversight boost

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The Parliament plans to open a new office in the Western Balkans, as a strategy to enhance its oversight over the enlargement process the European Parliament's administrative body plans in a document seen by Euractiv.

23-04-2024

Centre-right EPP fails to topple EU ethics body against tight majority

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The centre-right European People’s Party’s attempt to block the adoption of an agreement to create an ethics body overseeing all of the EU institutions failed on Monday (22 April), despite concerns about the initiative becoming a “dangerous precedent.”

Elections 18-04-2024

Moscow’s influence ‘active’ in all EU political groups, Morawiecki claims

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All political groups in the European Parliament are at risk or have already been penetrated by Russia, including the Conservatives, as Russians are “masters of propaganda,” former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned in an interview with Euractiv.

17-04-2024

EU auditors say rogue lobbyists can easily slip under bloc’s radar

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Lobbyists can easily bypass EU transparency rules to influence policy, the 27-nation bloc's auditors said on Wednesday (17 April).

16-04-2024

Von der Leyen bows to pressure as Pieper drops SME envoy job

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SME Envoy post will be filled after the elections, the Commission President announced, as German politician Markus Pieper renounced the post on the eve of his first day, and pressure mounted against the Commission President for the appointment deemed "unfair".

Justice 12-04-2024

Belgium probes EU lawmakers allegedly bribed by Moscow

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Belgium's federal prosecutor has launched an investigation against members of the European Parliament allegedly paid by Moscow, and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo will bring the issue of Russian interference to the top of next week's leaders' summit.

04-04-2024

EU Parliament once again raises ethics reform as Russia’s cash-for-influence scandal unfolds

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With two months until June’s EU election, the Parliament has gone into alert mode as pressure piles up to respond to a new cash-for-influence scandal rocking the institution, with new reforms back on the table. 

29-03-2024

European Parliament demands action over Russian interference allegations, worry about election fallout

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Political groups in the European Parliament on Friday (29 March) said they will demand swift action over Russian interference allegations and are planning to hold a debate on the issue, fearing the scandal’s effect on the upcoming June’s EU elections. 

13-03-2024

EU Parliament continues sidelining Irish Gaelic and Maltese languages

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The European Parliament voted on Tuesday (12 March) to extend a rule that leaves the door open to keep sidelining Irish Gaelic and Maltese from the institution’s translation and interpretation services until the end of the next mandate

Elections 15-02-2024

Czech ANO party a thorn in Renew Europe’s side – still

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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.

05-02-2024

EU lawmakers to Amazon lobbyists: ‘We want you out of Parliament’

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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.

Elections 23-01-2024

Azmani’s bid for EU liberals’ Renew presidency at risk over far-right scare

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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.

Politics 17-01-2024

Debate over EU liberals’ leadership heats up

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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.

Elections 11-01-2024

Séjourné’s surprise FM job throws Renaissance lead candidate race in limbo

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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.

07-01-2024

Michel’s election gamble to force EU leaders’ hand in top job race

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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.