A Brussels dinner brings together the walking wounded from an election that has reshaped the politics of at least four nations Prime ministers, presidents, and chancellors from across Europe are to dine in Brussels on Tuesday evening, and digest the verdict from their respective disenchanted voters. Many will arrive as walking wounded, their credibility battered, their reputations bruised, their policies...
European Central Bank may launch 'pre-emptive action' against deflation, and quantitative easing remains an option Mario Draghi has reinforced expectations that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates or launch a bond-buying programme next month after admitting that "pre-emptive action" may be needed to head off deflation. The ECB is on guard against deflation and ready to act with...
Ukip wins European elections with ease Lib Dems down to one seat , beaten by the Greens Full results from the UK All results from across Europe Lunchtime summary - UK 6.59pm BST David Cameron has been on the phone to European leaders ahead of an informal European Council in Brussels tomorrow evening, according to a Downing Street spokesperson. The spokesperson said that during conversations "in...
Jean-Claude Juncker declared victory in the European elections on Sunday, and staked his claim as the first man in line to claim the European Commission presidency. ...
Denmark will join the EU patent court following approval by referendum on Sunday. A majority of 33.7% voted yes, 20.2% no, while 1.9% were blank votes and 44.2% abstained. Agreement on the Unified Patent Court was signed in 2013 by 25 states, not including Poland, Spain and Denmark. ...
Dutch far-right Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, lost one of five seats in the European Parliment coming third in the Dutch EU elections. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's liberal party regained its five seats while the real winner was pro-European D66 securing four seats, one more than in 2009. ...
The German anti-euro party Alternative fuer Deutschland has secured seven seats in the European Parliament in Sunday's EU elections, according to official statistics. The pirate party and the Free Voter's party got one seat each while the neo-Nazi NPD and other small fringe parties did not win any MEP seats. ...
Ukip leader Nigel Farage Sunday again denied his party will enter into an EP alliance with Marine Le Pen's National Front. "The thought that Ukip would even contemplate sitting with the French National Front - it was something that never was going to happen, and never is going to happen." ...
Giovanni di Lorenzo, editor-in-chief at German Weekly Die Zeit, cast a vote for the EU elections both in Germany and in Italy. He told ARD television that he voted on Saturday in the Italian consulate and on Sunday in Hamburg. EU election law forbids citizens from voting twice. ...
Polish PM Donald Tusk's centre-right Civic Platform won 32.8% of the Polish EU votes, an IPSOS poll shows. The opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party came second with 31.8% ahead of the Liberals with 9.6%. The anti-EU 'New Right' lead by Janusz Korwin-Mikke surprised by winning 7.2% of the vote. ...
The ruling Democratic Party (PD) has won Italy's EP elections with 34.5% of the votes ahead of Grillo's anti-establishment M5S (25.5%). Berlusconi's Forza Italia came third with 17% and Lega Nord fourth with 6% of the votes. Grillo's movement will be sending 20 deputies to the European Parliament. ...
What many observers believed to be the most important European elections since the introduction of direct universal suffrage in 1979 has ended up confirming what many have feared: Europe is a divided continent. ...
With 75% of votes counted, the opposition centre-right Gerb party in Bulgaria has come top with 31%, the ruling centre-left Socialists got 19%, the Turkish minority party 16%, a pro-press freedom party led by former TV anchor Barekov got 11% and the new right-wing Reformists 6%. ...
Peevski, a controversial Bulgarian media baron, has said he will not take up his MEP seat despite a strong result by his party after Liberal group leader Verfhofstadt said he would not admit him to his group. Peevski will instead send Iskra Mihaylova, Bulgaria's current minister of ecology, he said. ...
Pro-Russia gunmen in Donetsk have shut down the airport and the road leading to the city of Dnipropetrovsk. Local contacts told EUobserver the show force is a reaction to Poroshenko's victory: "He now has a mandate to pacify the east, so they want to show they must be reckoned with." ...
With 70% of votes counted, pro-EU businessman Poroshenko won the Ukrainian presidential election in the first round with 54% of the vote. Overall turnout was 60%, hitting over 70% in the west of the country, and 48% even in the east, where pro-Russia gunmen tried to stop the election. ...
The Romanian National Liberal Party (PNL), currently affiliated with the European Liberals (Alde) should join the centre-right European People's Party, PNL's outgoing chief Crin Antonescu announced Monday morning. "It is a decision I will propose, given that the EU should not be led by a Socialist president," Antonescu said. ...
Former EU commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite was reelected as Lithuanian President on Sunday, in a runoff against Social-Democrat Zigmantas Balcytis. Preliminary results gave Grybauskaite 58.6% of the vote, compared to 41.4 % for her rival. Grybauskaite, a black belt in karate, ran as an independent with backing from centre-right parties. ...
Russian FM Lavrov has said Moscow is "ready for dialogue" with Ukraine president-elect Poroshenko, but warned him not to attack the pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine. His statement comes amid reports of heavy clashes in Donetsk airport, after rebels tried to seize the asset in the small hours of Monday. ...
Croatia's conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the most EP seats, retaining six, thus beating the ruling Social Democratic Party (SDP) with four representatives, down one. The election surprise was the fledgling ecology party, Walnut, with one MEP. Far-right Alliance for Croatia (6.6%) got no seats. Turnout was 25.5%. ...