The European Parliament was at its most self-congratulatory today, revelling in the "extraordinary success" of the euro. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was there, as was the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquín Almunía and the president of the "euro group", Jean-Claude Juncker. "A bunch of unelected old men," said Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, afterwards -&n...

On his blog, Jon Worth notes that the European Parliament is financing the development of a role-playing and networking website modelled on the European Parliament, named ‘Citzalia’. The project appears to be financed from €4 million allocated to European Service Network (ESN), a Brussels-based communications agency, from the European Parliament.

MEPs took yet another step towards arbitrary rule this afternoon, adopting new rules designed explicitly to prevent Euro-sceptics from forming a Group. The European Parliament operates a corporatist system: in order to move amendments, propose debates or qualify for campaign finance, MEPs are required to join trans-national Groups. To incorporate such a Group, you need at least 20 Euro-MPs from fi...

Yes it is that time again when journalists from around the Continent are convinced of the need to right magnificent copy about how wonderful the Parliament is on the promise of 5,000 euro and a bauble to put on their mantleshelf. But this year an early favourite must be the Parliament's own internal online newskletter, Newshound by this quite magnificent piece of drivel, Meeting the Euro in S...

According to the EU Observer, the European Parliament has saved between €3 and €4 million of taxpayer's money by holding plenary (voting) sessions in Brussels since the collapse of the roof of the Strasbourg Parliament in August. Whilst I am...

Ahead of the 4-7 June elections, the European Parliament has set up an election micro-blog on Twitter in the European Union's 22 official languages to keep people up to speed on preparations for the Europe-wide poll.

From the BBC. Solidarity leader Tommy Sheridan has confirmed he will stand as a candidate in the European elections taking place in June. But the socialist politician and former celebrity Big Brother housemate will not take up his seat in the European Parliament in Brussels if he wins. He will attempt to become a Euro MP as part

Burson Marseller have set up Predict09.eu. It is: a prediction of the outcome of the June 2009 European Parliament elections and the resulting make-up of the next European Parliament. The prediction is based on a statistical model of the performance of national parties in European Parliament elections, developed by three leading political scientists: Simon Hix (London School of Economics), Michael...

The possible enlargement of the euro zone to traditionally sceptical countries, such as the UK, sparked debate yesterday (13 January) in the European Parliament, during celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the EU's common currency.

Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that discussions about the controversial second pension scheme for MEPs continue today, as the European Parliament is due to vote in a plenary session on whether to cover the pension’s deficit, estimated at around €120 million, with funds from the EU budget.