Charles de Gaulle once said: “Europe is France and Germany. Everything else is just the garnishes.” Last night it looked like Europe’s meat and potatoes might be heading in different directions. While France rocked the Continent with a triumph for
The Spanish government has announced official results. They show a” shocking defeat” for the Socialists, according to European Voice. They have scored just 14 seats, down from 25 in the current Parliament. The governing centre-right PP will have 16 seats.
As Breitbart London exclusively forecast on Friday, Geert Wilders’ anti-EU, anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party has taken one more seat in the European Parliament than first exit polls indicated. Wilders’ party looks on course now to have four MEPs of the
Even before the count started on Britain’s elections to the European Parliament, it appears David Cameron’s Conservative Party may have been trying to poach some of UKIP’s allies at the assembly. The eurosceptic Danish People’s Party (DPP), which tonight appears
Despite the EU establishment bragging that this election to the European Parliament has 400m voters, the turnout is so low that nowhere near half that number have cast ballots. In fact, the total number of people eligible to vote is
Italy’s Five Star Movement, led by the raucous comedian Beppe Grillo who has denounced the EU-supporting social-democratic Prime Minister Renzi as “a little moron,” has joined the surge of eurosceptic parties across the European Union. According to @electionista, an average
The shooting dead of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday was “the result of constant incitement against Jews and their state,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “Slander and lies against the State of
The right-wing, anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which sits with the UK Independence Party in the European Parliament, has overtaken both parties in the coalition government and is leading the election, according to exit polls. The eurosceptic party appears to have
Marine Le Pen’s right-wing anti-EU Front National looks set to take 23 to 25 of France’s 74 seats in the European Parliament. Exit polls show the centre-right UMP of former president Nicholas Sarkozy will take between 18 and 21, while
First exit polls show that Germany’s new anti-euro party, the Alternative for Germany (AfP), is on course to win its first seats in the European Parliament, heading for 7 per cent of the vote, an increase on its showing in
Belgium, sometimes described as a country invented in 1830 by the British to annoy the French, goes to the polls on Sunday not just for the elections to the European Parliament but for elections to its national parliament and, eventually,
Four people were killed in an attack by a gunman at the Jewish Museum in the center of Brussels on Sunday afternoon. The gunman fled, but a suspect was later arrested, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre. Earlier reports
Finland’s conservative National Coalition appears to be in a clear lead over other parties in the elections for the European Parliament, according to an opinion poll published by the public broadcaster Yle. Finland remains of particular interest in EU politics
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front, has responded ferociously to a report that she is “flirting” with Golden Dawn, the far-right Greek party many in the political mainstream called neo-Nazi. With just hours to go before the elections
Geert Wilders and his right-wing, anti-euro Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) may not have done as badly in Thursday’s elections to the European Parliament as the first exit polls suggested. Reuters reported on Thursday evening that an IPSOS exit poll on
Observe the European Commission long enough, and all you will see is confirmation of Abraham Kaplan’s 1964 law of the instrument: “Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” In this case,
A former German chancellor has said the European Parliament should launch “a putsch” against the European Union executive which is showing signs of “megalomania.” In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Helmut Schmidt, who was social democrat Chancellor of
Members of one of Italy’s right-wing anti-immigration parties, Forza Nuova — “New Force” — have staged a demonstration at a swimming pool in Venice to protest against a special women-only time slot being given to allow Muslim women to swim.
Police have launched a murder investigation after cleaners found the body of a newborn baby in the lavatory of an Austrian Railways train in Munich, according to The Local. The cleaners found the body at 4 a.m., five hours after
The attempt by members of the European Parliament to force the European Council – that is, the heads of state and government of the EU member states – to choose their candidate to be the next president of the European
In what looks like a calculated outburst on the eve of the elections to the European Parliament, Nicholas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has called for half the powers of the European Union to be abolished and seized back
In a spectacular vanity project, the members of the European Parliament and their bureaucrats are spending up to €1.5m of taxpayers’ money to give their assembly chamber a one-night-only make-over for the broadcast of the election results on Sunday evening.
Anybody who actually follows Italian politics can only watch that Jeremy Paxman interview with Silvio Berlusconi and shout at the screen: “Wrong unf**kable question, Paxo!” And not because of the gimmick Paxman used to make sure this performance – if
Anybody who knows the French right-wing knows it has never been anything like the American right-wing — at least, not until now. In an interview on Monday with the Financial Times, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French right-wing Front
