Four of the 26 new members of the EU’s increasingly powerful executive branch, the European Commission, were each to undergo a three-hour grilling by senior lawmakers most closely linked to their ...

Last week the new crop of wannabe Commissioners faced the first round of questioning from the European Parliament. Meanwhile, ...

Rivers State is gearing up to host an extraordinary session of the Economic Community of West African States Parliament, ...

The European Parliament hearings of Commissioner-designates will start on Monday afternoon (4 November), but unlike in previous hearings, the European People’s Party (EPP) seems to have the ...

said they were “not aware of any investigation” and denied that the three received any compensation from the EPP group during the campaign. The named person reiterated that the high-ranking Weber ...

“It’s a signal that Weber was not fully supporting von der Leyen’s campaign,” said one of the senior MEPs, echoing other EPP insiders. IT’S TIME TO REFORM HOW PARLIAMENT SCRUTINIZES COMMISSIONERS DEPT ...

Uzbekistan votes in a parliamentary election on Sunday that, in the absence of opposition parties, is certain to produce a ...

Political groups in the European Parliament have begun dividing key roles ahead of next week’s inaugural session, with the ...

CATALONIA’S regional parliament threw down the gauntlet to Madrid yesterday by approving a plan to draw up a road map for independence by 2017. The proposal, put forward by deputies from the Together ...

The Venezuelan Parliament unanimously approved the creation of the state of Guayana Esequiba, which is to be added to the country's official maps. The law establishes that a Governor for the state ...

European Union member-states are increasingly tightening their border regimes as they pressure Brussels to follow suit. During a fiery European Parliament session this week, hundreds of MEPs from ...