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The who’s who of the Parliament’s tech committees
Est. 6minMany familiar faces are returning to the European Parliament's committees that deal with tech policies, but several key figures have also left the Parliament or the committees.
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Committee chairs elected: Far-right excluded, but centrist parties row over gender balance
Est. 5minThe gentleman’s agreement among the EU's centrist parties to keep extremes at bay held as the European Parliament elected chairs and vice chairs of its committees, but rows over gender balance exposed tensions between the mainstream parties.
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Power moves in EU Parliament: Committee claims and chair votes
It’s a busy summer for the European Parliament, with this week seeing the formation of committees and MEPs voting on the committee chairmanship on Tuesday (23 July).
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Ursula von der Leyen: round two
Ursula von der Leyen convinced 401 members of the European Parliament to vote in her favour out of 707. This time, she was re-elected as Commission President with a 41-vote lead, emerging from the very first plenary with a stronger mandate.
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Von der Leyen wins 401-strong parliamentary majority with tactical concessions, Greens support
Est. 5minUrsula von der Leyen was re-elected as European Commission president on Thursday (18 July), after a long speech in the European Parliament where she reached out to the centrist and left-wing parties but excluded the far-right.
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Von der Leyen’s carefully crafted coalition faces first test
Est. 5minThe frontrunner for Commission president is expected to deliver a compromise programme to gather a majority of votes from the Parliament on Thursday (18 July).
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ENVI and ITRE: Many familiar faces, but some big names relegated to backbenches
Est. 4minDraft committee arrangements of the European Parliament’s biggest groups, seen by Euractiv, show that some heavyweight lawmakers surprisingly secured only substitute status due to the high demand for seats in the environment (ENVI) and industry (ITRE) committees.
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Everything we know about the first Strasbourg plenary
Newly elected and re-elected members of the European Parliament are gathering in Strasbourg for the first plenary session of the new mandate.
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Parliament’s Patriots slam MEPs prevention of far-right vice presidencies
Est. 4minBy electing the institution’s vice-presidents, the members of the European Parliament kept the far-right political families isolated from vice-president positions on Tuesday (16 June), in a move that secured the cordon sanitaire in place.
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Metsola re-elected to second term as EU Parliament president with large majority
Est. 3minRoberta Metsola has been re-elected as president of the European Parliament as she won in the first round of voting with 562 votes at the Parliament’s inaugural plenary sitting in Strasbourg Tuesday (16 July)
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The Brief – What does it mean to be non-inscrit?
Est. 6minThe non-inscrits are often overlooked in the European parliament, but what are they? Who are they? And what, if anything, does it mean to be non-inscrit?
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The rise of three far-right groups in the European Parliament
The European Parliament, the biggest democratic institution in the world, now features three far-right groups. Two of them, Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations, emerged only this week, from the ashes of failed alliance negotiations.
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French right divided over need for ‘Europe-style’ coalition
Est. 4minFrench President Emmanuel Macron needs the right-wing Les Républicains party to form a central coalition in the National Assembly, but the party remains sharply divided over whether to ally with him or the Socialists.
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German AfD launches third far-right group “Europe of Sovereign Nations”
Est. 4minGermany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), cut off from many other far-right parties in the European Parliament, managed to launch its own parliamentary group, the third coalition to the right of the EPP in the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 July).
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How the formation of new European Parliament Party Groups is going
With the right in flux, increasing fragmentation of the political landscape in member states, and the need for von der Leyen to secure a governing majority in the European Parliament, group formation has never looked so messy.
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French far-right RN set to join Orbán’s ‘Patriots for Europe’
Est. 3minThe French far-right party Rassemblement national (RN) is set to join the "Patriots for Europe" group formed in the European Parliament by Viktor Orban and his allies, several sources within the party and Lega confirmed to Euractvi on Sunday (July 7).
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Orbán’s new right-wing group hits EU parliament threshold
Est. 3minHungarian premier Viktor Orbán's fledgling political movement attracted enough parties Saturday to achieve recognition from the European Parliament in a boost for his latest ploy to shift Brussels rightwards.
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Orbán’s ‘Patriots’ on track to become third force in EU Parliament with Le Pen
Est. 3minThe new Patriots for Europe grouping looks set to become the third largest political force in the European Parliament with Spain’s VOX party leaving the Conservatives and Marine Le Pen’s party likely to join too.
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Patriots for Europe swallows Identity and Democracy: Here’s what’s happening
Est. 8minEverything indicates the far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group is set to collapse in favour of the newly created ‘Patriots for Europe’, which aims to gather all radical right forces beyond the Conservatives (ECR) group.
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CoE committee chief: Need to boost social rights as ‘battered’ Europeans look right
Est. 6minEuropeans are still feeling the pinch from successive crises, which shapes their democratic engagement and risks more shifts towards authoritarian governance, the president of the Council of Europe’s Social Rights Committee told Euractiv in an interview.
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Von der Leyen courts Greens in bid for EU Parliament majority
Est. 4minUrsula von der Leyen started talks with the Greens on Monday (1 July), following negotiations with Socialists and Liberals, as she enters the third stage of her campaigning to get the Commission presidency for a second term: winning over Parliament.
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Orbán, Babiš, Kickl create new “patriotic” alliance to redefine EU policies, eye new Parliament group
Est. 6minPoliticians from the political right in Austria, Hungary, and Czechia, have launched a new alliance called "Patriots for Europe" which hopes to recentre the right-wing in the European Parliament around criticism of migration, aid to Ukraine, and the Green Deal.
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The one thing the Greens and the hard right have in common
Est. 10minWhile pushing back against the moves to hoard most top EU jobs by the election-winners, the centre-right EPP, European Socialists are simultaneously rushing to clean their own house and rearrange the internal balance of power in their European Parliament group to reflect the election results.
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Germany’s far-right holds off on new EU parliamentary group
Est. 3minThe far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has seconds thoughts about forming a new parliamentary group out of fringe parties from the right, fearing close association with more extreme nationalistic viewpoints.