The frontrunner for Commission president is expected to deliver a compromise programme to gather a majority of votes from the Parliament on Thursday (18 July).
Draft committee arrangements of the European Parliament’s biggest groups, seen by Euractiv, show that some heavyweight lawmakers surprisingly secured only substitute status due to the high demand for seats in the environment (ENVI) and industry (ITRE) committees.
Newly elected and re-elected members of the European Parliament are gathering in Strasbourg for the first plenary session of the new mandate.
By electing the institution’s vice-presidents, the members of the European Parliament kept the far-right political families isolated from vice-president positions on Tuesday (16 June), in a move that secured the cordon sanitaire in place.
Roberta Metsola has been re-elected as president of the European Parliament as she won in the first round of voting with 562 votes at the Parliament’s inaugural plenary sitting in Strasbourg Tuesday (16 July)
The non-inscrits are often overlooked in the European parliament, but what are they? Who are they? And what, if anything, does it mean to be non-inscrit?
The European Parliament, the biggest democratic institution in the world, now features three far-right groups. Two of them, Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations, emerged only this week, from the ashes of failed alliance negotiations.
French President Emmanuel Macron needs the right-wing Les Républicains party to form a central coalition in the National Assembly, but the party remains sharply divided over whether to ally with him or the Socialists.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), cut off from many other far-right parties in the European Parliament, managed to launch its own parliamentary group, the third coalition to the right of the EPP in the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 July).
With the right in flux, increasing fragmentation of the political landscape in member states, and the need for von der Leyen to secure a governing majority in the European Parliament, group formation has never looked so messy.
The French far-right party Rassemblement national (RN) is set to join the "Patriots for Europe" group formed in the European Parliament by Viktor Orban and his allies, several sources within the party and Lega confirmed to Euractvi on Sunday (July 7).
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán's fledgling political movement attracted enough parties Saturday to achieve recognition from the European Parliament in a boost for his latest ploy to shift Brussels rightwards.
The new Patriots for Europe grouping looks set to become the third largest political force in the European Parliament with Spain’s VOX party leaving the Conservatives and Marine Le Pen’s party likely to join too.
Everything indicates the far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group is set to collapse in favour of the newly created ‘Patriots for Europe’, which aims to gather all radical right forces beyond the Conservatives (ECR) group.
Europeans are still feeling the pinch from successive crises, which shapes their democratic engagement and risks more shifts towards authoritarian governance, the president of the Council of Europe’s Social Rights Committee told Euractiv in an interview.
Ursula von der Leyen started talks with the Greens on Monday (1 July), following negotiations with Socialists and Liberals, as she enters the third stage of her campaigning to get the Commission presidency for a second term: winning over Parliament.
Politicians from the political right in Austria, Hungary, and Czechia, have launched a new alliance called "Patriots for Europe" which hopes to recentre the right-wing in the European Parliament around criticism of migration, aid to Ukraine, and the Green Deal.
While pushing back against the moves to hoard most top EU jobs by the election-winners, the centre-right EPP, European Socialists are simultaneously rushing to clean their own house and rearrange the internal balance of power in their European Parliament group to reflect the election results.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has seconds thoughts about forming a new parliamentary group out of fringe parties from the right, fearing close association with more extreme nationalistic viewpoints.
A new far-right parliamentary group, allegedly named "The Sovereignists," is being formed in the European Parliament, led by Germany's AfD and aiming to gather various nationalist parties across Europe, according to multiple sources and media reports.
Fringe parties received a sizeable boost in Germany’s EU elections, suddenly finding themselves in an influential position in post-election negotiations as their collective influence rivals that of entire countries.
The European Conservatives and Reformists announced on Wednesday they've overtaken the liberal Renew group to become the third-largest political group in the EU Parliament. This shake-up impacts the negotiations for EU top jobs as - at least in theory - it makes the ECR entitled to one of them.
The five newly elected MEPs from the pan-European movement Volt have recommended that party members stay with the Greens’ group due to worries that the liberal Renew Europe group is too soft with member parties' dealings with the far-right.