Photo by Guillaume Périgois on Unsplash One of the EU parliament’s most senior MEPs says “Europe will survive” despite the rise of nationalist and Far Right parties in the European elections. The comments by Polish MEP Danuta Huebner come after a weekend of shocks in the EU wide poll. First exit polls show gains for the centre-right and…
As millions of EU citizens living in the UK vote in the European Parliament elections, it is not just Britons who will no longer be able to vote in these elections after Brexit, writes Else Kvist. As a Danish citizen living in the UK, along with the vast majority of other Danes who have settled…
Photo by Ra Dragon on Unsplash If polls are to be believed, a potential emergence of a more influential far-right bloc within the European Parliament could have significant ramifications for the EU’s migration policy. Historically, far-right parties have campaigned on stringent immigration platforms, advocating for tighter border controls and stricter asylum policies. A sizable presence of these parties…
Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash Former MEPs are locked in a bitter legal wrangle with the European Parliament over their EU pensions.One former MEP told this website “it is amost inexplicable and unjustified legacy” to cut the pensions of over 900 former MEPs “by 50 per cent and without notice or consultation.” The current European Parliament is in recess…
Photo by Diogo Palhais on Unsplash The former Irish Minister for Europe Dick Roche has voiced real concerns over how the European Parliament has exercised its powers in the last five years. Speaking in Brussels, the Irishman, an avowed and committed Europhile, said it was clear the Commission “always has a little thumb on the scales.” His comments come just ahead…
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash Leading European footballers, including Belgian Red Flames captain Tessa Wullaert, are helping to promote the EU elections. She is among other stars of the women’s game who have signed up to the campaign urging people to vote on 6 to 9 June. Turnout is seen as key in the election in the…
Photo by Tobias Rademacher on Unsplash The European People’s Party, and the Liberals have been accused of “openly courting the far right.” The accusation follows last week’s debate in Brussels between the candidates vying for the job of the EU Commission President. One of the candidates Terry Reintke, representing the European Greens, took part in the debate and…
The upcoming European elections are “crucial” to stop the far right from seizing power and dismantling the Green Deal. That is according to the European Greens, who took part in a high profile Eurovision debate between the candidates vying to be the next president of the Commission. The live debate, from parliament’s main chamber, took…
Photo by Martin Katler on Unsplash The electoral campaigns before the upcoming EP election in Slovakia have been running calmly mainly on social networks, billboards with rather vague messages listed on them and also in regions in party-organized meetings. Discussion sessions with citizens, contrary to the original intent are often attended mostly by the already-decided electors of each…
Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash Leading European NGOs met in Berlin on Wednesday (22 May) calling to “put reproductive rights on the ballot paper” in the forthcoming European Parliament elections. On the heels of the recent government commissioned report calling for abortions to be legalised within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in Germany, activists from across Europe gathered…
