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Could Alliance Party win NI’s third Euro seat?
In Northern Ireland, three seats are up for grabs. Two look certain to go to Sinn Fein and the DUP, but the third still hangs in the balance.
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Farage to be investigated by European Parliament over Banks funding revealed by Channel 4 News
The European Parliament has announced that it will investigate donations made by the millionaire pro-Brexit businessman Arron Banks to Nigel Farage.
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Armenian footballer Mkhitaryan to miss Europa League final over Azerbaijan safety fears
There is already anger among Chelsea and Arsenal fans that their Europa League cup final next week is being played in the capital of Azerbaijan, nearly 3,000 miles away.
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European Parliament quaestor Catherine Bearder on Nigel Farage: ‘There seems to be a lot of spending going on, money coming into Farage’s activities, that are not showing up on the public record’
We asked Nigel Farage or a representative of the Brexit Party for an interview. Nobody was available. We spoke to Catherine Bearder, who as well as being a Liberal Democrat MEP in the European parliament, was one of five quaestors – politicians elected to scrutinise the finances and administration of members of the parliament.
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Could the European elections redefine British politics?
Here in the UK, Brexit dominates the campaign that was never supposed to happen for Thursday’s European elections. Six weeks of talks between Labour and the government to find a deal on the Withdrawal Agreement have ended without consummation. With both sides blaming the other. The latest polling has the Tories in fourth, even fifth…
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Europe’s populist right rallies as Austria’s Vice-Chancellor resigns
Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache angrily denounced the sting that provoked his resignation as “a targeted political assassination”. A spontaneous demonstration of several thousand people outside the Chancellor’s office in Vienna demanded fresh elections. Less spontaneous was the rally in Milan for a gathering of Europe’s populist right, a campaign season finale ahead of next week’s…
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MPs to vote on May’s Brexit deal after Euro elections
No sooner had Theresa May announced that she was bringing her withdrawal agreement back to the Commons for a fourth time in early June than her Brexiteer backbenchers said once again that they wouldn’t support it.
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Will Euro elections be a proxy vote on Brexit?
Voters across the UK will go to the polls next week in the European elections – elections which were never meant to have taken place if the original Brexit date had been kept.
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Verhofstadt campaigns for Lib Dems in Euro elections
The main lesson of Brexit? Never repeat it again, says the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, as he joined the Liberal Democrats on their European election campaign trail today. Denying his presence amounted to foreign interference, Mr Verhofstadt said he didn’t know if Britain would ever leave the EU, while the European Council President Donald Tusk said there was…
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Conservative MP Charles Walker on European elections: Tory MPs who voted against May’s deal ‘need to ask themselves some searching questions’
Conservative MP Charles Walker is a vice chairman of the party’s 1922 Committee.
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Government admits UK must take part in European elections
The government has finally confirmed that the European elections cannot be avoided. The UK will vote to send 73 MEPs back to the European Parliament in just over two weeks’ time. The government now hopes those MEPs will be out of a job after just a couple of months if a Brexit deal can be…
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Shadow Trade Minister Barry Gardiner: ‘We will respect the referendum result, we should leave the European Union’
We spoke to two Labour Party MPs; Labour’s Shadow Business Minister Barry Gardiner, and Melanie Onn who has been on the campaign trail in her constituency in Grimbsy.
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Chris Patten on voting Conservative in Euro elections: ‘I can certainly think of some candidates I couldn’t conceivably vote for’
We spoke to Chris Patten, who was the last British governor of Hong Kong. We talked about a range of pressing issues, including Brexit, the Tories and Huawei – but first we asked him what his reaction was to the sheer size of the protests in Hong Kong.
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Cable says he regrets pro-Remain parties have not formed united front in Euro elections
The Liberal Democrats have launched their campaign for the European elections.
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Change UK launches Euro elections campaign
Selling themselves as the “remain alliance”, the new Change UK party have launched their campaign for the European elections in Bristol, calling for another vote on Brexit.
