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EPP’s Valencia congress dilemma: Mortifying protests or costly rethink
Ongoing fallout from Spain’s deadly floods could tarnish a gathering of center-right luminaries, but moving it would drown the party in fees.
‘Europe is on its own’ after Trump-Zelenskyy clash, EPP’s Weber says
Merz won the German election. Here’s what it means for Europe.
Friedrich Merz challenges Ursula von der Leyen for Europe’s crown
Revealed: How EU Socialists plan to counter far right
Brussels power couples — 2025 edition
German conservatives back Weber for second term as EPP leader
Far-right Bardella’s letter to EU conservatives: Join my anti-green crusade
Marine Le Pen’s protégé pitched the right-wing forces on forming an ‘alternative majority … against the left.’
Let’s kill the Green Deal together, far-right leader urges EU’s conservatives
Jordan Bardella thinks he can convince the European People’s Party to suspend EU climate legislation.
EU lawmakers left and right rush to secure line to Trump’s US
The far right has made the running so far but mainstream parties hope to increase contact.
Europe’s conservatives target green NGO financing rules
Right-wing MEPs want restrictions on NGOs’ use of EU funds for lobbying. Critics warn this would benefit wealthy corporate interests.
Manfred Weber to seek reelection as EPP president
The Bavarian conservative may well be in charge of the EPP for another three years as of April.
Austria’s Kickl brings Europe’s anti-populist firewall crashing down
The EU’s strategy to deal with the far-right Freedom Party heading for power in Vienna is … hope for the best.
Von der Leyen’s constant power play exasperates EU capitals
Some leaders have called on new European Council President António Costa to help rein her in.
Changing green rules won’t help industry, EU climate chief says
Wopke Hoekstra’s own political family has led calls to tweak existing rules.
Greens left cold in love triangle with Europe’s hard right
The progressive group is soul-searching after failing to woo the center right and block the hard right from power.
MEPs poised to decide fate of Fitto, Ribera and other commissioners
Evening meeting is the strongest sign yet that a political deal to unblock the start of the European Commission is within reach.
The hard right is mainstream in Brussels now
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and her allies are now part of a governing majority in the EU’s center of power.
Here’s the timeline for the new European Commission
An agreement on the next EU executive will take blood, sweat, tears and a lot of backroom maneuvering.
How a political hostage deal saved 2 commissioners’ jobs
MEPs resort to mutually assured destruction to get Jessika Roswall and Hadja Lahbib through their parliamentary hearings.
Who’s afraid of whom in Brussels?
POLITICO’s spook-tacular Halloween guide to the EU bubble’s most frightful relationships.
Fraud busters investigate European Parliament’s most powerful group
Police zero in on European People’s Party chief Manfred Weber’s 2019 bid for Commission president.
Hungary’s Orbán says von der Leyen wants to ‘overthrow’ him
The populist leader called this week’s EU Parliament debate a “crucifixion attempt.”
Weber crows as von der Leyen walks back EU deforestation drive
Ban on products from logged forests is delayed, raising green fears.
European Parliament inches toward commissioner hearings in November
Chairs of the Parliament’s committees prefer a Nov. 4 start date.
Civil war at the top of the European People’s Party
Manfred Weber’s grip on Europe’s biggest political force is challenged.
Lithuania’s top envoy drops bid to be European commissioner
Gabrielius Landsbergis pulls out as the country’s president blocks his plan to move to Brussels.
‘A dangerous new phase’: Under Meloni, concerns for press freedom in Italy mount
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called journalists’ complaints about press freedom in Italy “fake news.”
Hungary’s easing of immigration rules for Russians raises espionage fears
Fallout from a policy that grants Russians and Belarusians fast-track access to the European Union could threaten Hungary’s Schengen membership.
Ignore the haters — the European Parliament matters more than ever
Parliament is still the weakest of EU institutions — but its members are getting more powerful.