Europe's Green parties seek expansion strategy

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Building on their successes in France and Germany at the recent EU elections, the European Green Party is launching an offensive to strengthen representation in Eastern and Southern European countries, where they have no elected parliamentarians.

French influence remains modest in EU Parliament

Despite increasing its representation in key committee posts, France remains far behind Germany and the United Kingdom in terms of influence in the new European Parliament. EurActiv France reports.

EU elections seen as irrelevant, survey finds

A third of voters who decided not to use their ballot in this summer's European Parliament elections only made their decision in the final days of the election campaign, according to a European Parliament Eurobarometer survey conducted in the month following the June poll.

Interviews

Malcolm Harbour big Malcolm Harbour, UK Conservative MEP, European Parliament

Harbour: Public procurement to drive recovery

Pervenche Beres big Pervenche Berès, Chair, Employment and social affairs committee (EMPL), European Parliament

MEP: Social policy a central plank in future recovery

jo leinen big Jo Leinen MdEP, Chair, Environment committee, European Parliament

MEP: EU climate vow separate from Copenhagen deal

Opinion & Analysis

The UK Tories' European policy: The road to oblivion

Stanley Crossick, Founder, European Policy Centre

Barroso on the spot before European Council nomination

Michael Berendt, Public affairs advisor, Fleishman Hillard

Why leaders don't speak about Europe

Emmanuel Morucci, Team Europe-France

Reflecting on the EU elections in Finland

Aaretti Siitonen, Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

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