This article is part of the Back to school special. One year after the 2024 election bolstered right-wing forces in the European Parliament, POLITICO’s data shows that they don’t team up often — but ...

The centre is struggling to hold at the European Parliament. This week's plenary session showed that the traditional alliance that has dominated European politics since the inception of the union is ...

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In her July 2024 re-election pitch to MEPs, Ursula von der Leyen made clear that her new Commission would ‘simplify’ existing rules, to find a new balance between environmental protection and ...

Manfred Weber’s misfortune is to have become the candidate for president of the European Commission of a political party that no longer exists. In theory, Weber is the Spitzenkandidat of the European ...

For the first time, a right-wing majority is emerging at the European Parliament as the European People's Party flirts with groups that would have been considered too toxic to work with in the past.