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