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Parliament clash: MEP history lessons, apologies and ripostes

The Strasbourg plenary was rocked by a rhetorical battle over history.

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Famous in Hungary?

The Hungarian government's campaign highlighting MEPs and George Soros is making headlines once again.

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MEPs take part in plastic cleanup to mark World Cleanup Day

A group of MEPs joined a World Cleanup Day event on Tuesday, picking up waste outside the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg

Belgium

Watch: Nigel Farage scolded after mocking EU’s role in defeating Nazis

“Laughter is the last refuge of the stupid,” Nigel Farage was told after ridiculing the EU’s role in defeating Nazism.

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Italy's Di Maio calls for 'new European group' for 2019 elections

Another new political grouping is hoping to make an impact in the upcoming European Parliament elections 2019, this time from Italy. The Deputy PM said the new movement would neither be left nor right.

Hungary

Hungarian lawmakers reject 'lying, slanderous' EU-backed report

Lawmakers in Hungary have formally rejected the conclusions of an EU-approved report, which claims their government posed a “systematic threat” to the bloc’s values and calls for sanctions.

Germany

Euroviews. Bavaria tells Europe to think beyond immigration | View

Bavaria's elections sent a powerful message ahead of Europe-wide votes next year.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Machiavellians put Brexit plans before human rights | View

In order for Europe to be a champion of human rights globally, we have to get our own house in order first.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Orban is not Hungary, like the Conservative Party is not the UK | View

Any hopes that the new Foreign Secretary would tone down the rhetoric were quickly dispelled recently with Jeremy Hunt’s appalling and indefensible comparison of the EU to a ‘Soviet prison’- prompting Nigel Farage to remark that Hunt was now ‘talking his language.’

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After Poland and Hungary... Romania

EU Commission and European Parliament warn Bucharest not to jettison rule-based democracy

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Shared values must be upheld in all EU countries | View

Many of Orbán’s allies in the centre-right European People’s party (EPP) deserted him. Those expressing their disgust also included fellow Scottish MEPs from the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Conservatives. But it didn’t include most of the Conservative MEPs from England.

Europe News

Brussels to Romania: "Hands off judicial independence"

EU warns Bucharest not to interfere with the justice system and not to stop fighting against corruption

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Tories back Orban: Abstention would have sent different signal | View

A large majority of the European Parliament voted to trigger article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty. This majority included many of Fidesz’s colleagues in the EPP (traditionally a very pro-EU grouping) whose affiliation to the EPP is being seriously tested by Fidesz’s membership, writes London's Green MEP.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orban - Viktor Orban is no ally to be had

These are turbulent times and the way the UK has conducted Brexit talks is threatening our future relationship with the EU. We can’t afford to alienate ourselves even more by offering Orban political support in exchange for his.

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Debate over wiggle room of NGOs helping migrants

Without humanitarian assistance by NGOs, the refugee crisis "would have been hell"

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Tories' support for Orban - 'disgraceful move' that echoes UKIP policy

A thank you letter from a far right leader for showing solidarity is not something I would be proud for my party to be associated with. It's astonishing the level The Tories are prepared to stoop to in order to get support for their failed Brexit plan.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Orbán's actions not a proxy for Brexit debate | View

It is frankly shameful that the Conservatives were the only ruling party in Western Europe that voted to support Orbán and at a time when my nation needs friends more than ever before, this is hardly a successful strategy to make friends and influence people.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán – It's clear that there was a trade

Orbán deliberately tries to portray the Article 7 action as an attack on the Hungarian nation and people when it is actually a judicial process against his corrupt and anti-democratic government.

Hungary

Orban sends thank-you letters to MEPs who voted against Article 7

Article 7, often dubbed the "nuclear option", could see the EU impose sanctions on Hungary and restrict its voting rights.

Hungary

Euroviews. 'What if?' A View from a Fidesz MEP

As Milan Kundera once wrote, one of the functions of Central Europe is to serve as an early warning system for Europe as a whole. This is what Fidesz has got right and that’s why it’s so widely detested. Nobody likes a successful prophet, after all.