Romania’s new major player AUR sets out stall for next government
Romania's political landscape has been undergoing a seismic shift as the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party solidifies its position as a…
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Irish MEP berates Musk after party’s election win
Irish MEP Billy Kelleher, a member of the Fianna Fáil party, has taken to X to berate US tech billionaire Elon Musk after his party's win in the country's general…
Threadbare Xanadu: Europeans discover the EU is a bogus confection
What is Europe? Is there such a place? Or is this Europe thing just a creation of a communal imagination that itself exists solely because of a self-defining doctrine?
New EC kicks-off with threats to Georgia amid violence
The new European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen has spent its first day in operation threatening Georgia over the country's alleged mistreatment…
Social Democrats win Iceland elections, Greens lose all seats
The Social Democrats have won Iceland's parliamentary election with all the previous government parties taking hits.
Georgian PM aborts EU accession as relationships sour
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has announced that his ruling party would abort his country's attempt to join the European Union until 2028 and said his…
European establishment won’t listen to voters, so national populists will keep winning
Last Sunday’s Romanian elections, in which a populist-right candidate, Călin Georgescu, defied the opinion polls and jumped into top place in the first round…
Fractured EU establishment parties agree to support new European Commission
The traditional European Parliament power bloc of the European People's Party (EPP), Socialists (S&D) and Liberals (Renew) have struck a deal on approving the second…
A surreal dystopia: Ireland’s identity being dissolved in frustration and anger
The Great Barrier Reef is being eaten by gigantic Crown of Thorns starfish that, extruding their stomachs inside out, coat the poor coral with corrosive acids and…
‘Europe is in danger’, warns EU foreign affairs and security chief Borrell
European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Josep Borrell has warned that the union is "in danger" in his 300-page book, Europe in the Arc of Fire.
Member states doubt EU database for biofuels, saying market distortions are likely
The Union Database for Biofuels (UDB), which came into effect on November 21, is part of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package of the Renewable Energy Directive…
Think-tank accuses EU of undermining rule of law
In a new report, the Hungarian Nézőpont Institute (Nézőpont Intézet) has taken shots at the European Union, accusing it of violating the rule of law.
EPP to approve Commissioner Ribera despite initial threats
The European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament has proposed an agreement with the Social Democratic (S&D) and Liberal Renew groups to unblock the approval…
EP’s S&D holds Commission hostage to force through climate candidate Ribera
This strategic shift has been designed to see Ribera appointed to the new Commission despite her controversial management of the catastrophic flooding that hit Valencia,…
Von der Leyen coalition parties to dominate Irish general election, poll finds
Political parties which are members of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's so-called Grand Coalition look set to dominate the upcoming Irish…
Doubling-down: EU insists ‘decarbonisation’ the key to making bloc competitive
The European Union has doubled down on its green agenda in the face of Donald Trump's US presidential election win, with the bloc's Council of the EU insisting that…
Europeans must find way to fire EU elites when they screw up
Much of the European commentariat’s theatrical horror at the re-election of Donald Trump smacks of a comfortable smugness that such a dread outcome cannot befall…
Vistisen: MEPs will push through new Commissioners due to Trump win
The European Parliament will most likely approve every candidate for European Commissioner role as a result of Donald Trump's presidential win in the US, Danish…
Hostile MEPS refuse to approve Hungarian Commissioner-designate
Olivér Várhelyi, Hungarian European Commission candidate for the Health and Animal Welfare portfolio, has failed to win the parliament's approval to take up his…
European politicians learn Trump’s victory is a glimpse of Europe’s future
Europeans awakening to the reality of Donald Trump’s victory will be asking themselves what it means for them.
Spanish MEPs fling mud over Valencia floods crisis
Spanish infighting has hit the European Parliament as MEPs trade blows over the recent deadly flooding in Valencia.
Branko Grims MEP: Trump win would shift world away from ‘cultural Marxism’
A Donald Trump victory in the US presidential elections would shift Europe and the entire world away from "cultural Marxism", a European People's Party (EPP) member…
Europe finds butter delicious and guns too pricey to pay for defence
The prospect of a second presidential term for Donald Trump has horrified European establishmentarians, who have long portrayed him as a threat.
Breton warns of ‘deadly crisis’ for EU if Trump wins US election
Former European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has claimed that a win for Republican hopeful Donald Trump could sound the death knell for the…
How the European populist-right is becoming mainstream
There is a concept in sociology called the “Overton window”.
EPP spending probe reports ‘designed to damage Manfred Weber’
Rumours of an ongoing European Public Prosecutors Office probe of the European People's Party is a "reheated" scandal aimed at undermining party president Manfred…
Schengen set to expand while Belgium is left surrounded by border controls
Schengen is designed to be a passport-free travel area but Belgium, home to the European Union, has now found itself boxed in.
Real world shows EU green policies may cause chaos
Over the past five years, the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has passed more environmental regulations than any commission in history.
Weakened Spanish Government could be forced to polls over budget impasse
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's crippled Socialist government could soon come to an end -- that is if hard-left party Podemos holds to its stance of refusing…
As 13 EU nations criticise Orbán’s ‘premature’ Georgia visit, Austria gears up to host Hungarian PM
A coalition of European Union member states have criticised Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his "premature" visit to Georgia two days after a disputed…