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 ...

BRUSSELS — Europe's centrist political forces have an uneasy feeling that the European People’s Party is abandoning them for the far right. The center-right group — Europe's largest political family ...

Oscar Denis Sánchez, the former Paraguayan vice president, kidnapped by the EPP Two weeks ago, a group claiming to belong to the EPP kidnapped Paraguay’s former vice president. Since then, it has ...

The European Parliament approved a package to ease corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements. EPP teamed up with conservative and far-right MEPs to pass the law. The European ...

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 ...

Manfred Weber’s misfortune is to have become the candidate for president of the European Commission of a political party that no longer exists. In theory, Weber is the Spitzenkandidat of the European ...

German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen has been confirmed as the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) lead candidate (or so-called Spitzenkandidat) to become the next European ...

The centre-right EPP group will adopt a position paper on Wednesday (11 December) on securing the bloc’s struggling car industry without calling for an initially proposed two-year delay of CO2 targets ...

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.