Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc has won a lacklustre victory in Germany’s national election while the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party managed a triumphant entry into parliament, projections have shown.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged her supporters to keep up the momentum in the final hours before tomorrow's national election, urging a last push to try to sway undecided voters.

DESPITE the sobering lessons inflicted on crystal ball gazers by Brexit, the elevation of President Trump and humiliation of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May in last June’s

If Britain’s Theresa May concedes too much to those right-wing Brexiteers and Euroskeptics, she could make it impossible to reach a final agreement with Europe, writes Robert Harvey

The Netherlands election has energised traditional parties across Europe from left and right, with Dutch voters showing Europe that populism is not always inevitable, suggest Raf Casert and Angela Charlton. 

MEPs Steven Woolfe and Mike Hookem have been reported to French police over their altercation at the European Parliament which plunged crisis-hit Ukip into further turmoil.

An autopsy has confirmed that a 22-year-old Syrian man who was believed to have been plotting a bombing attack killed himself in his jail cell in Leipzig, German authorities say.

EU agriculture expert Alan Matthews predicts that tariffs will be temporarily re-imposed on trade between the UK and the EU for the first time in more than 40 years, when the Brexit process is completed.

 

A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for human rights.

Everyone knows that getting eight hours of shut-eye a night will ensure you look your best, but did you also know you can harness the power of sleep to boost your natural beauty?

Members of the European Parliament have been assured they need not fear court action from Commissioner designate Phil Hogan if they ask him questions about his alleged actions in the past.

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German Socialist Martin Schulz became the first person to be elected president of the European Parliament for the second time when he got more than 50% of the votes in the first round.

With the EPP returned as the parliament’s largest party, it looks inevitable that Jean-Claude Juncker will become president of the European Commission, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

British prime minister David Cameron will be forced to step up his drive to claw back powers from the EU to head off a challenge to his leadership after losing votes to the anti-EU UK Independence Party, its leader Nigel Farage said.

The President of the European Parliament said the EU owes Ireland thanks.

Oh, how embarrassing. You’re in the middle of a furious, relationship- ending row, and suddenly the doorbell rings and you remember this is the night you invited the neighbours over for drinks.

Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, delivers her weekly briefing on Euro affairs from the European Parliament.

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was awarded the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize yesterday in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education.

Michael Jackson regained the title of the top-earning dead celebrity in the past year, easily surpassing Elvis Presley and cartoonist Charles Schulz, Forbes magazine said.

HE’S the great Houdini of world politics. Buffeted by scandal, convicted of corruption, abandoned by allies, Silvio Berlusconi has been written off countless times over the two decades in which he has dominated Italian politics — and each time he made a miraculous escape from the political dead.

The Messiah of Stockholm

Senior European officials expressed concern at reports that US intelligence agents bugged EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic, with some leftist politicians calling for concrete sanctions against Washington.

There will be one final chance for the Irish to get agreement on the EU’s €960bn budget tomorrow as the European Parliament said there was not enough support for the deal on the table.

Globalisation solution is an EU problem

IRISH voters, long used to choosing between political parties that grew out of Civil War politics, are expected to “do it like the Europeans” by casting a vote for right, centre or left-wing candidates in next year’s European elections.

Euro-MPs this afternoon challenged EU leaders to drop their austerity budget plans for Europe and boost spending for the next seven years.

Europe has spent hundreds of billions of euro rescuing its banks, but may have lost an entire generation of young people in the process, the president of the European Parliament said.

The presidents of the European Commission and Parliament will meet the Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Dublin on Thursday as efforts to agree a seven-year budget intensify.

The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has warned Italians not to vote for controversial billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi.

Leaders settled in for a long night of negotiations on the €1,000bn seven-year EU budget last night, but the early signs suggested that Ireland’s share of agriculture payments was safe.

The European Union's three presidents collected the Nobel Peace Prize today in recognition of six decades of work promoting "peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights".

“Not this prize, not this year” is the message from the protesters on the streets of Oslo with their torches, objecting to the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ireland will not abuse its position during its EU presidency to push for a deal on bank debt, a senior Government source has claimed.

The President of the European Parliament has said that he believes it will be next year before Ireland gets a banking debt deal.

Savita rally at Irish embassy in Belgium

IT’S PRETTY rare that a Government TD cries “hear, hear” during an opposition member’s speech.

Merkel and Hollande wrangle on

Enda Kenny has dampened expectations of a bank debt deal before the budget, saying getting the “right decision” was more important than the timing.

Hopes for a deal to ease Ireland’s bank debt before the Budget have been dashed with the Taoiseach hinting it could be the new year before it takes effect.