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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera |Victor Goury-Laffont
Paradol told POLITICO that he had served as both a part-time local parliamentary assistant and Bardella’s chief of staffduring his previous term as an MEP, which ended in 2024, and had had no problem establishing a division of labor between the two jobs. The issue only came to the fore when it was time to renew his contract over the summer, after the new Parliament was sworn in.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
Others called it “a surprising choice.”“When will she have time to run the party?” said an EPP official, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about internal party matters. Weber on Wednesday told reporters that the new secretary-general role will be less administrative and more political, easing the workload for Montserrat.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
The European People’s Party’s powerful Polish delegation has criticized the group’s increasing alignment with the far right, spearheaded by its German leader Manfred Weber, arguing those groups are unreliable and don’t value what’s best for Europe.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera |Marianne Gros
STRASBOURG — The two largest forces in the European Parliament are locked in a game of chicken over green rules that threatens to destabilize Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s centrist coalition. A deepening power struggle between the center-right European People’s Party and the center-left Socialists and Democrats all but hijacked negotiations within the coalition over the Commission’s first attempt at cutting red tape for businesses this week.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Louise Guillot |Max Griera
2 days agoDenmark slams Trump administration day after JD Vance underinvestment claimsDuring a visit to the Pituffik Space Base on Friday, Vance told US troops that Denmark has 'underinvested' in Greenland's security and demanded that Copenhagen change its approach.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Louise Guillot |Max Griera
BRUSSELS — Europe’s largest and most powerful faction, the European People’s Party, knows how to run a tight ship: The key is discipline. The center-right EPP warns its 188 lawmakers that they will be punished with limited speaking time and diminished roles if they don’t follow the party line, an internal document obtained by POLITICO reveals. In some cases lawmakers will be blacklisted from speaking time allowances if they don’t inform the EPP in advance they won’t show.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
BRUSSELS — Two people who filed harassment complaints against European lawmakers said a recent reversal of a harassment case by the European Union’s top court, based on a technicality, will lead to a widening chasm in power dynamics between bosses and employees. “It’s such a huge fuck up, and it truly shows the arrogance of the Parliament in such matters,” said a former European Parliament employee who was involved in a harassment case.
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4 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera |Elisa Braun
Police authorities searched two offices belonging to several European Parliament political assistants in Strasbourg, two officials with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO. Police had previously sealed the offices on March 13, the same day that authorities raided more than 20 addresses in Belgium and Portugal as part of an investigation into corruption at the Parliament allegedly benefiting Huawei. Those offices have now been searched, the officials confirmed Thursday.
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4 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Elisa Braun |Max Griera |Ben Munster
BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors are investigating whether Huawei made illegal payments to get an open letter written, signed by eight European parliamentarians, which defended the Chinese tech giant's interests, according to judicial documents seen by POLITICO.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Bartosz Brzezinski |Max Griera
The European Union allows surgical castration of piglets without anesthesia. Just don’t try showing a photo of it in the European Parliament. Before a new exhibition on factory farming opened Tuesday, an image of a piglet mid-castration — screaming, restrained — was quietly removed.
