MEPs have voted in favour of calling on the EU to consider recognising the state of Palestine - but have stopped short of agreeing to describe what is happening in Gaza as "genocide" and a "man-made ...

A group of left-wing MEPs is preparing to defend a draft resolution supporting a referral to the European Court of Justice, aiming to block the ratification process of the Mercosur agreement. A group ...

The European Commission has said it will not answer payment requests related to previously frozen funds. But some MEPs think that loopholes are available which Hungary's Viktor Orbán may use. MEPs are ...

The majority of MEPs in the European Parliament voted against describing Israeli actions in Gaza as a genocide. The results on Thursday (11 September) follow an amendment tabled by the Left that had ...

Maltese Labour MEPs wore red on Wednesday to show support for Gaza during the annual EU State of the Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Alex Agius Saliba, Thomas Bajada and Daniel ...

The European Parliament has approved a resolution which condemns Israel’s humanitarian blockade in Gaza and calls for urgent EU action on the situation in Palestine, with all of Malta’s MEPs voting to ...

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen warned MEPs that the EU faced a "fight for its future" in her annual "State of the Union" speech on Wednesday (10 September), which focused on foreign ...

The European bloc’s enlargement commissioner questioned whether Serbia remains committed to achieving EU membership, as MEPs debating the protests in the Balkan state condemned what they called ...

Liberal Renew and centre-left S&D are sending their policy wish lists to Ursula von der Leyen, hoping to influence her annual address to the Parliament next Wednesday. The letters, seen by Euractiv, ...

Farmers protest in front of EU institutions in Brussels [Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images] Farmers, lawmakers and NGOs are ramping up opposition to the EU-Mercosur agreement just hours ...

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Cypriot members of the European parliament on Tuesday addressed the chamber in Strasbourg for the first time since the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people in July ...