European elections: What do voters want and candidates promise on fiscal policies?

euronews.com Watch episode 17 of Euronews' guide on the European elections, taking place from June 6 to 9. Ahead of June's vote, Euronews asks MEP candidates and EU citizens to say what…

German Far-Right Candidate Under Fire for Nazi Comments

newsweek.com Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has banned its lead candidate for upcoming European elections from making public appearances after he claimed that…

Von der Leyen spars with rivals on EU budget, Chinese trade war

euronews.com With two weeks until EU elections, candidates diverged on the size of the bloc’s trillion-euro spending, European air defence, and whether to impose US-style punitive…

Brussels, my love? Transparency over MEPs' side jobs

euronews.com In this edition, we look at what lawmakers' extracurricular activities mean for their core role. This week, we are joined by Sophia Russack, senior researcher from the…

Espionage scandals are hurting Germany’s far right

economist.com On April 27th Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, the co-leaders of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, held a rally in the southern town of Donaueschingen to…

European Parliament elections tracker: who’s leading the polls?

economist.com etween June 6th and 9th, more than 350m people across the EU’s 27 member states will be eligible to vote for the next European Parliament. They will elect 720 members, or…

How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism

economist.com One of the few benefits of Britain leaving the European Union, at least for denizens of Brussels, was that Nigel Farage all but disappeared from the city’s parliament, pubs…