The EU saw this coming and is ready for Farage's 'Trojan horse', writes Charlotte O'Brien.

Three-time MEP Marian Harkin has confirmed she will not seek re-election to the European Parliament and said the size of her constituency and a tough travelling schedule are two of her reasons for stepping back from politics.

The European Commission’s new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, comfortably survived a no confidence vote yesterday brought over news that Luxembourg had lured multinational businesses with super low tax rates during his period as prime minister.

Jean-Claude Juncker has imposed a radical overhaul at the EU Commission as priorities shift from enlargement and lawmaking to energy and monetary union, reports Ana Palacio

Sinn Féin has nominated councillor Cathal King as its candidate for the imminent Dublin South West by-election — just weeks after he insisted he would not run in order to make room for a female candidate.

Britain in the EU, or Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission — that was the choice according to British Prime Minister David Cameron when he spoke out against the

A late surge saw turnout nationally in the local and European parliament elections approach an estimated 57%, one percentage below the 2009 figure and 9% less than the 68% recorded in the last general election.

Ukip will make good on polling predictions by scooping top place in the Euro elections, Nigel Farage has said.

What are the European Parliament election candidates fighting for?

European Parliament elections highlight how change, like labour reform, is so difficult to effect, writes Jean Pisani-Ferry.

Enda might still abandon Mick and Ming

Poor BBC presenters. They really go get a hard time.

The recent speeches and media comments attributed to President Michael D Higgins, and the explanations that he and Labour Party ministers subsequently made, have unfortunately politicised an office that must be above politics.

Fine Gael has selected a 36-year-old county councillor to contest the Donegal South West by-election.

Prosecutors investigating allegations that Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi misused government planes to fly entertainers and starlets to his holiday villa on Sardinia have decided to drop the case, news reports said today.

Danes voted today to put princesses on an equal footing with princes in the royal line of succession.

A PARTY led by far right, anti-Islamist and anti-EU member of the Dutch parliament Geert Wilders has taken four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European Parliament election.

In the North, early figures for voter turnout for the European Parliament election show a huge drop in the numbers voting.

Early figures for voter turnout for the European Parliament election have confirmed fears of a huge drop in the numbers voting.

Election officials in the North will begin preparations today for the official counting of the votes cast in the European Parliament election.

LIBERTAS founder Declan Ganley has been accused of exploiting people’s sensitivities over ethical issues to get himself elected to the European Parliament.

Jeffrey Donaldson has waited a long time for ministerial office.

SENATOR John Hanafin this week became the first politician to signal an interest in standing in the European elections in two years time.

ALMOST 400,000 more people turned out to vote in last year’s local elections - a 10% hike on the previous election, a study has revealed.

The British government is considering changes to the voter registration system in Northern Ireland following talks with Sinn Féin, it emerged tonight.

CHANCELLOR Gerhard Schroeder pledged to pursue his economic reforms despite his party’s thrashing in European Parliament elections, its worst showing since the World War II in a nationwide German vote.

Northern Ireland’s politicians were tonight preparing for a nail-biting European Parliament election count with the Ulster Unionists and the nationalist SDLP expected to fight it out for the final seat.

DUBLIN European candidate Royston Brady last night gave a rare public interview in a bid to limit damaging accusations that he sought to capitalise from the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings.

It is absurd for Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy to talk about the conditions which allowed a truth and reconciliation commission to operate in South Africa when his government denies rights at home, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams claimed today.

MOVES to form an all-Ireland Green Party will offer voters in the North an alternative to tribal politics, it was claimed yesterday.

Moves to form an all-Ireland Green Party will offer voters north of the border an alternative to tribal politics, it was claimed today.

THERE is one candidate in the European Parliament election in North-West that everyone is watching — Dana Rosemary Scallon.

The EU constitution is yet another attempt to create a European superstate, the Ulster Unionists insisted today.

A senior backbench member of Fianna Fáil today called on the London and Dublin governments to consider permitting the Garda Síochána to operate in the Northern Ireland borderside villages of Crossmaglen and Forkhill.

Unionist activists are voting with their feet and abandoning David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists, the rival Democratic Unionists claimed tonight.

The nationalist Lord Mayor of Belfast was accused of insulting unionists today by attending a wreath-laying ceremony for republicans killed in the 1916 Easter Rising.

A Northern Ireland farmers’ leader was tonight being tipped as a possible agreed candidate in June’s European Parliament election.

Republicans are going to do everything they can to ensure that Northern Ireland has another peaceful summer, a Sinn Féin source insisted today.

Northern Ireland faces considerable challenges in the years ahead from European Union enlargement, the Democratic Unionist’s new European Parliament candidate claimed today.

Ten members of the SDLP tonight put their names in the hat for the party’s nomination for this June’s European Parliament election.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams today was flying to the US as Northern Ireland’s largest political party prepared for next month’s review of the Good Friday Agreement.

IAN PAISLEY will quit the European Parliament in June, he announced yesterday.

Peter Cassells, a former general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, has announced his intention to seek the Labour Party nomination in Leinster for next year’s European Parliament election.