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Europe's Green parties seek expansion strategy
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,
UK Conservative MEP, European Parliament
Harbour: Public procurement to drive recovery
Pervenche Berès,
Chair, Employment and social affairs committee (EMPL), European Parliament
MEP: Social policy a central plank in future recovery
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
Post-election analysis: Between apathy and anger, but no earthquake
European Policy Centre (EPC)
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