Former centre-left Austrian chancellor Christian Kern will seek to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker in the 2019 European Parliament elections. The pro-European Kern’s candidacy will hope to provide a balance to growing nationalist forces throughout the continent.

Viktor Orbán is leading Hungary away from the rule of law, from our fundamental rights, from the EU solidarity, from the EU project. He uses public funds to wage a massive propaganda campaign against the European Union, against free movement and against the rule of law.

Euronews’ Politics Editor Daniel McCaffrey was at the European Commission’s midday briefing to ask its chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas about the ruling.

With the European Commission under fire over the manner in which it appointed Martin Selmayr to be its top civil servant, do MEPs think the European Commission is living up to its pledge to be transparent?

The findings come after the controversial appointment of Martin Selmayr, Secretary General of the EU.

According to the European Ombudsman, the European Commission "stretched and possibly overstretched the limits of the law" when fast-tracking Martin Selmayr to the top job in its civil service.

President of the EC, Jean-Claude Juncker highlighted the results of an EU survey where 80% of the 4.6 million participants wanted summer and winter time changes to be abolished.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker asks for "respect" after a video of him stumbling at a NATO summit went viral.

A European Commission spokesman has denounced the question of whether European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker was drunk on Wednesday following his public stumble.

Open letter to the European Commission

Brussels is heading for another clash with Washington over a move to blunt the effect of US sanctions on businesses operating in Iran.

The EU budget: it's full of dry, impenetrable figures and indecipherable Euro-jargon, no? Well, not this time. The Commission is using it to determine the shape of the European future, and there is more revolution in there than you might at first think.

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