By Martin Banks Most Britons now believe Brexit was a failure, according to a senior former Labour government minister. This comes after a recent survey says 63 percent of those planning to vote Labour in the UK general election on July 4 support Britain re-joining the EU. Another survey says most also want the issue […]
By Martin Banks One of the EU parliament’s longest serving former MEPs has failed to get re-elected.
By Martin Banks Former MEPs are locked in a bitter legal wrangle with the European Parliament over their EU pensions.
By Christina Keßler, of the Centre for European Reform The Spitzenkandidat (lead candidate) process has not fulfilled its promise of engaging the average voter.
By Martin Banks The European People’s Party, and the Liberals have been accused of “openly courting the far right.”
By Martin Banks New polling says the results of the EU elections could have “significant consequences” for the EU’s policy agenda.
Unless the opinion polls have got it very wrong, next month’s European elections will trigger a massively disruptive ‘Blame Game’ within the EU. Hurried realignments of longstanding political alliances and frantic searches for scapegoats threaten to change the face of the European Union in the eyes of the world as well as at home.
Finland will propose a law next week allowing border agents to block asylum seekers trying to enter from Russia, the prime minister said on Sunday (19 May), a decision that could cause Helsinki to temporarily breach its international commitments.
By Martin Banks The European Green Party has demanded that the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE),”take measures” towards the liberal party VVD, following the Dutch government coalition deal the VVD concluded with Geert Wilders’ “far-right” PVV.
Croatia’s parliament on Friday (17 May) approved a new coalition government allying the ruling conservatives with a right-wing nationalist party.
