Elections covers European, national and local votes, including the European Parliament, national parliaments and presidential contests. Reporting tracks electoral law and administration, timetables and candidate lists, polling and projections, campaign finance and advertising rules, media access, debates, turnout and results, post-election negotiations, and the formation of governments and EU-level groups.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his willingness to debate with far-right leader Marine Le Pen ahead of the European Parliament elections on June 9th, emphasising that the future of France…
Upcoming elections are “crucial” to stop the far right from seizing power and dismantling the Green Deal, say the European Greens. That is according to the European Greens, which took…
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been expelled from the Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament following a series of scandals. The decision comes just…
Unless the opinion polls have got it very wrong, next month’s European elections will trigger a massively disruptive ‘Blame Game’ within the EU, writes Giles Merritt. Hurried realignments of longstanding…
Lord Richard Balfe: “There is something fundamentally depressing about the forthcoming Euro elections, the first that the UK will not be involved with. Yet in a way we will be…
Married to an Italian for over 30 years and with two children who are dual nationals, I did not until recently seek an Italian passport, writes former British MEP Sir…
On Thursday May 16th, law enforcement authorities conducted searches at the premises of Petr Bystroň, a politician from the right-wing populist party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), who is the party’s…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged citizens to respond to attacks against politicians by casting their votes in the upcoming elections. “Attacks on our democracy concern us all,” said Scholz…
Denis MacShane, a former Europe Minister in in Tony Blair’s premiership says “no dramatic breakthroughs” should be expected in the upcoming EU elections, which take place from 6 to 9th June.…
The European Parliament’s last Eurobarometer survey before the elections in June reveals awareness among citizens and concern for the current geopolitical context. Today’s pre-electoral publication reveals a positive, upward trend…
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, representing the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) in the upcoming European Elections, has pledged to confront the rise of far-right elements she identifies…