Merkel and Cameron: unstitching a stitch-up
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
This is a land that refuses to forget. Here in the centre of Donetsk you can still find a statue to Lenin in a square named after him. There is a bust of Karl Marx outside the local college.
King Juan Carlos enjoyed high popularity ratings – until his daughter became embroiled in a corruption scandal and he was filmed on safari at the height of Spain’s economic downturn.
Europe’s mainstream parties are beginning to reassert themselves, and urging caution over the dangers of the far right and far left. But complacency is the battered EU’s biggest problem.
So is it payback time for the worst financial crisis in living memory? If so, who was to blame?
Marine Le Pen’s Front National has gripped the French electorate in the Euro elections but offers few solutions for the country’s deep-seated problems.
A new and rather late recruit to the tide of anti-politics joined the baying mob this morning.
The main parties have been running scared of what Ukip has to say. Hopefully, these election results will encourage a new atmosphere of real debate.
Although the media did not seem able to land a finger on Ukip leader Nigel Farage in the run-up to Thursday’s poll, it could be the “none of the above” faction that comes out on top.
They may be the most famous or indeed infamous (depending on your view point) dynastic double act in European politics, but it is rare to see Jean Marie and Marine Le Pen together on the stump.
There is now a real prospect that political parties that believe in the dismantling of the EU will become a dominant voice in its parliament.
We were promised a flood of immigration from Bulgaria and Romania, but the reality is more of a trickle, as FactCheck finds out.
Lindsey Hilsum travels through the farmlands outside Donetsk with a convoy of pro-Russian separatists, as they move to confront a group of Ukrainian army soldiers.
We may be seeing the green shoots of recovery come into full bloom – but parts of Europe still languish.
Video of a secret meeting between a government official and a far-right MP raises tricky questions for the international community bailing out the Greek government.