European People’s Party (EPP)

MEPs are demanding the Parliament president strengthen internal reporting mechanisms.

Manfred Weber, the powerful German who leads the European People’s Party, has an heir apparent … himself.

Two years after Qatargate, Parliament is still split over reform in its ethics checks.

The EU’s new plan gets tough on deportations to outflank the continent’s surging populists. Instead, it might just be fueling their narrative.

Ongoing fallout from Spain’s deadly floods could tarnish a gathering of center-right luminaries, but moving it would drown the party in fees. 

Law championed by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would lower the protection status of Europe’s wolves.

This week’s episode of EU Confidential comes to you from Thursday’s emergency meeting of EU leaders — the political equivalent of sobbing into your pillow on a …

The center-right European People’s Party is calling for the European Parliament to fast-track a major new bill amending EU green corporate disclosure rules, in a move that …

New German investigation of NGO funding signals rightward power shift in European politics.

The request follows claims the EU executive was paying nonprofits to lobby on its behalf.

POLITICO breaks down what the conservatives’ victory means for EU policy and cooperation ― from nuclear weapons to cannabis.

Ursula von der Leyen was Angela Merkel’s protégé. Friedrich Merz was her rival. Who will lead Europe?

‘Confidential’ document details concerted plan to woo Manfred Weber’s EPP back to center ground.

Divisions inside Europe’s centrist coalition risk derailing the Commission’s green simplification package.

Lawmakers claim right-wing coalition is using procedural tricks to “obstruct” implementation.

Roses are red. There’s love in the bubble. If you don’t read this article. You’ll be in deep trouble.

Intentionally or not, concerned businesses, the ascendant far right and traditional conservatives are coming together to rewrite green rules.

“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tells far-right rally in Madrid.

Confidential contracts seen by POLITICO do not tend to support claims that the executive paid green groups to lobby on its behalf.

Friedrich Merz’s CDU is set to endorse the EPP head on Sunday, boosting Weber’s chances at a decisive party congress in April.

An all-out war is unfolding in the European Parliament over whether the Commission should fund organizations that lobby EU institutions.

The Christian Democrats should abandon their leftist allies, argues Giorgia Meloni’s political family.

Marine Le Pen’s protégé pitched the right-wing forces on forming an ‘alternative majority … against the left.’

Jordan Bardella thinks he can convince the European People’s Party to suspend EU climate legislation.