Europe’s right-wing strikes back: they represent over 20 per cent of the population
Conservative or right-wing forces are on track to govern approximately 100 million EU citizens, representing more than 20 per cent of the total population.
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Von der Leyen attacks nationalism, embraces ‘Europeanism’, wants ‘new wind of change’
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has outlined her vision for the European Union at the inauguration ceremony of the College of Europe campus in…
Left-wing MEP Salis: a target of ‘Orbán’s authoritarian regime’ or a ‘common thug’?
Illaria Salis, an Italian left-wing MEP associated with Antifa, has outlined her defence following the announcement of the Hungarian authorities' request to revoke…
EU in economic stagnation, but Starmer imagines it is the UK’s salvation
Part of the astonishingly clumsy launch of the Starmer government in the UK is the inexplicable faith, frozen in aspic, of the new prime minister and his senior…
EXCLUSIVE: European Parliament mulls home-made AI-generated Christmas cards
Bureaucrats working in the European Parliament have been asked to vote on whether the body should publish Christmas cards sporting AI-generated artwork, Brussels…
EXCL: final figure disclosed, 3,000 emails hit by European Commission outage
Around 3,000 emails were left undelivered earlier in October after a technical outage at the European Commission, Brussels Signal can report.
Don’t block my sun: a new commission that does not overshadow von der Leyen
The new European Commission, pending approval after the November hearings, has been put together by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with a clear objective:…
EXCLUSIVE: EU official emails hit with four-day partial outage
The European Union's official email service was hit with a four-day partial outage between October 10 and October 14, documents seen by Brussels Signal have confirmed.
Brexit reversal talks could start in 10 years, New Labour’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ says
A senior British Labour peer and former European Commissioner for Trade has broken ranks on Brexit, suggesting talks on reversing the United Kingdom's exit from…
Cities and regions on warpath against Brussels over EU funds centralisation
Local governments across the European Union are on the warpath amid attempts by Brussels to further centralise its control over cities and regions in the EU.
‘Stay Calm’: Strasbourg plenary ends in chaos after train locomotive ‘explodes’
The European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg ended in chaos on October 10, with EP staff begging Eurocrats to "please stay calm" after a locomotive appeared…
EP leaders rejig Commissioner hearings to avoid working holiday
The leaders of the European Parliament have rejigged their provisional schedule for the European Commissioner-designate hearings next month to avoid working on a…
Knives out as Eurocrats dogpile Hungary in Strasbourg
Orbán predicted the previous day that his EU presidency presentation in the chamber would be derailed by parliamentarians looking to speak on other issues.
EU pulls financial support from Georgia over ‘democratic backsliding’
The European Commission is pulling back €121 million in assistance for Georgia after the country voted for some laws the EU opposed.
LEAK: Full provisional schedule for EU Commissioner hearings revealed
The dates of November 4 to November 12 have raised eyebrows within the Brussels bubble, with some critics noting that at least 12 of the hearings will coincide directly…
Ludicrous declarations of ‘human rights’ lead to this, unstoppable waves of migrants
The final joke of the brilliant British comedian, Bob Monkhouse, before he died ran: “Everybody laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
Europe unprepared for energy crisis if Israel attacks Iranian oil industry
Once again the world finds itself on the brink of a renewed energy crisis, and once again Europe appears ill-prepared.
Macron: EU could be ‘killed’ by new ‘multipolar’ world order
The European Union could be "killed" by the rise of the new "multipolar" world order, French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed.
EU to blame for own decline, senior Eurocrat admits
"It is the normal consequence of decisions that we took, or did not take, in the last thirty years."
Dismay at ‘declining state of menswear in European Parliament’
Men's fashion bloggers and former MEPs have told Brussels Signal of their dismay at what they see as the standard of menswear declining faster in the European Parliament…
UK’s Starmer to meet Von Der Leyen next week to ‘reset ties’
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will visit Brussels next week for what is described as a significant meeting with European Commission President Ursula von…
Swedish Renew, S&D MEPs lobbying to make critic of Greek border control new EU ombudsman
Swedish MEPs from the Renew and Socialists and Democrats (S&D) groups are lobbying to make a prominent critic of enforcement activities at the Greek border the EU's…
Polls say Austria’s right-wing FPÖ will win election, pop that in your strudel and ponder
Yet another European Union member state drifts rightward.
‘Whiteness’ and ‘Europeanness’ a danger to EU, ECFR report claims
Overall, the ECFR warned that there was a public "drift" towards understanding "Europeanness" in ethnic terms, rather than in a "civic" way it viewed as more constructive.
Embarrassing gaffe for Belgian EC candidate Lahbib
Hadja Lahbib, Belgium's newest European Commissioner candidate, has certainly made an impression at her first General Affairs Council meeting of the Council of the…
Does the cordon sanitaire still really exist?
For decades, the European establishment has drawn a cordon sanitaire (a sanitary cordon, meaning a refusal to deal with certain parties) around parties of the populist-right.
Metsola has broken no rules, absolutely none…so what is that bad smell?
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, has been touched by two scandals in less than a month, both involving allegations of influence peddling and…
Belgian MEP Botenga questions ‘crazy’ severance pay of EU President Michel
Belgian Communist Party MEP Marc Botenga has called for an end to European "exit allowances", citing what he called the "indecent golden parachute" of European Council…
Waging lawfare: Italian prosecutors try to imprison a democratically-elected leader
In 2019 Matteo Salvini, then Italy’s Interior Minister, blocked a boat from the pro-migrant NGO Open Arms charity from docking in Italy.
Von der Leyen stamps authority on new European Commission team
In unveiling her new European Commission team, Ursula von der Leyen has asserted her political authority on Brussels.