BRUSSELS, May 27 -- The landscape of European politics is changing as far-right and nationalist politicians made strong gains in European Parliament elections. This year, both of them -- the Group of European People's Party and Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats -- lost..…
'So, whilst they haven't been able to meet expectations as pollsters had suggested prior to the European Parliamentary elections -- their ultimate number of seats is perhaps lower in that respect -- they will still put their stamp on the next European Parliament,' he added. . ... For four decades,..…
With the pro- European European People's Party and Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats taking hits across the board, they will no longer have the numbers to maintain their parliament. Rivet suggested that their only hope now is to form an alliance of the losers with..…
The 28 member countries of the European Union voted from Thursday to Sunday for the European Parliament, the bloc’s only directly elected institution, which has extensive powers over legislation. ..…
May survived that vote, but was clearly weakened by it and this made her ability to put together a Brexit plan that Parliament would accept. . As things stand, the European Union has given the United Kingdom until October 31st to come up with a Brexit deal acceptable to both parties. ..…
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany’s Social Democrats said on Monday she would propose a vote on her position as leader of the party in parliament, after her decision to stay in coalition with Angela Merkel’s conservatives was criticised by the party’s left. . . . ..…
The member of the coalition, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, gathered just 4.2% of the votes, below the threshold needed Romania to gain in European Parliament.. ..…
BRUSSELS—The conservative center-right European People’s Party (EPP) won the most seats in the 751-seat European Parliament following EU elections this week in the 28 EU member states followed by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) but even together the two..…
For Manfred Weber, EPP's lead candidate this time, the spitzenkandidaten system fits him, because EPP this year is again voted to be the biggest group in European Parliament... Frans Timmermans, lead candidate of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the largest party group..…
Voters Germany, Lithuania, Cypriot Bulgaria, Greece and Italy cast their ballots on Sunday in elections to European Parliament ... Citizens of European Union member countries, among whom over 400 million voters are eligible, are expected to vote over the course of four days, starting from..…
SOUTHAMPTON, England - Nigel Farage's Brexit Party stormed to in European election, riding wave of anger at the failure of Prime Minister Theresa May to take United Kingdom out of European Union.. European Parliament that United Kingdom took part in because May delayed Brexit showed..…
The desire of British people to reassert their sovereignty, and leave the increasingly European Union, was reiterated European Parliament elections, held this past week. ..…
The results saw nascent enter European Parliament for the time - the liberal 2020 Alliance, combination of grassroots anti-corruption party Union to Save Romania, and initiative called Plus, run by Dacian Ciolos, former EU commissioner for rural affairs and ex-prime minister.. ..…
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