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 European Parliament approved on Thursday a package to simplify corporate sustainability reporting and weaken due diligence requirements. European People’s Party (EPP) teamed up with European ...

BRUSSELS — The European People’s Party has drawn fury from centrist and center-left groups after it joined forces with right-wing and far-right parties in Parliament to dilute anti-deforestation rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dutch EPP MEP Sander Smit lost the fight over a motion slamming the Commission for breaching the separation of power using NGOs. [EP/Laurie DIEFFEMBACQ] The European Parliament’s centre-right EPP has ...

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.