European Parliament
Attacked from all sides, Baroness Ashton’s position is getting perilous
Jon Worth reports from Brussels on the increasing precariousness of Baroness Catherine Ashton's position as European Union foreign affairs chief.
Latest ECR farce: Tory MEPs vote against their own leadership candidate
Far right Tory MEPs Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer were among those to vote against Timothy Kirkhope, the official Tory candidate to lead the ECR group in the European Parliament.
Socialists win double victory on financial transactions tax and short selling
The Socialist group has won two big victories in the European Parliament this week, with Parliament’s Economic Committee voting to ban naked short selling by 529 votes to 127.
MEPs should support proposals for an EU-level Financial Transaction Tax
Sarah King, TUC Brussels officer, on why MEPs should support proposals for a European Union-level Financial Transactions Tax when it's voted on in the European Parliament next week.
The homophobe, the climate denier or the moderate – what next for the ECR?
We now have the three candidates for the leadership of the Conservative-dominated European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament.
Coalition confusion over EU human trafficking directive
After giving the concrete answer of ‘no’ when asked whether the government would be signing the European directive on human trafficking just three months ago, is the coalition on the brink of doing an about turn? Last month, Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone told the Commons that the coalition had “decided not to opt in to the European directive at the moment”; yet last week, Solicitor General Edward Garnier seemed certain that the directive had in fact already been signed.