The European Union's three main political bodies include the European Commission, the European Council and the European ...

First, a few basics. While the elections are called "European" they are actually contested by national political parties, such as the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) or the Spanish ...

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Europe nears a crucial turning point at the 2024 European Parliament, with a topsy-turvy political landscape that is challenging the traditional consensus of mainstream, centre-left and centre-right ...

One of the world’s largest democratic exercises is underway, with some 373 million people across the European Union eligible to vote in elections for the next European Parliament. Voters in the ...

But the war in Ukraine endures and the hard right of Marine Le Pen in France or Viktor Orban in Hungary is gaining ever more ...

Across the continent, far-right political parties look ascendant. And if these parties claim as many seats as expected, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of the center-right ...

American diplomat George Kennan later referred to WWI as the “seminal catastrophe of the 20th century,” as much of Europe’s subsequent political turmoil, disasters and horrors can, to some degree, be ...

“This is a sincere political battle,” says Bas Eickhout, a lead candidate for the European Greens in the upcoming election. “The wolf has become a bit of a symbol of the concerns rural ...

Political groups setting the agenda in the next European Parliament are likely to maintain their current stance on Ukraine. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 ...

These are the political groups of the outgoing parliament. The groups of the hard and far right have proved the most fluid, ...