New French PM Michel Barnier will give “some much-needed ballast to France’s somewhat unstable leadership”. That is the view of a former vice president of the European parliament. Edward McMillan-Scott was speaking to this website after Barnier’s appointment on Thursday. Known in France as Monsieur Brexit, Barnier, who is 73, is France’s oldest prime minister since…
Photo by Pedro Lastra on Unsplash Gains by the far right in last week’s EU elections are “deeply concerning”, says former UK MEP Claude Moraes The far right held their positions in Italy and the Netherlands (with swings between far-right parties rather than to them). But they failed to make headway in other countries where they were predicted…
I was first elected in 1984 as a pro-EU Conservative for a Yorkshire UK constituency. Since then, I fought no less than six more Euro-elections, mostly as a member of the Christian Democrat/Conservative European Peoples Party group, writes Edward McMillan-Scott. But when David Cameron, then UK premier, formed a new nationalist Conservatives and Reformists group…
