BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament on Monday set itself on a collision course with Britain, making a damning assessment of British proposals on EU citizens' rights after the U.K. leaves the European Union. The legislature indicated it would be using its power of veto on the...
European Parliament (EP) elections have traditionally been described as 'second-order national elections' in which campaigns are fought by national parties on national issues. We argue that the 2019 elections should instead be considered 'first-order polity' elections. It is not EU-level party ...
The first local results announced Sunday night showed that the Brexit Party outperformed the ruling Conservative and opposition Labour parties in Britain in the European Parliament elections. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage reacts after the European Parliament election results for the UK South East Regi...
Brexit Party MEPs have turned their backs on the EU anthem as they took their seats in the new European Parliament. Nigel Farage's party staged their demonstration as Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was played in the Strasbourg chamber on Tuesday morning....
Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People's Party (EPP) group, said, "the Treaty does not say a great deal on this point [...] but Brexit would undoubtedly mean a loss of political influence". Extraordinary session Behind the official wall of silence, the Parliament "is...
out of the European Union by Oct. 31 and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage saying he won't personally run for a seat in Parliament. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP) By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage unveiled hundreds of Brexit Party candidates for Britain's ge...
"The U.K. government should not mistakenly take this for a blank check or a vote of blind confidence in its intention to implement the agreements with us in good faith," said Christophe Hansen of the European People's Party. The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Ba...
The Conservative Party has been badly stung by the Brexit Party, which was launched earlier this year by veteran Eurosceptic Nigel Farage and stormed to the top place in the European Parliament elections. Asked if he would work with the Brexit Party that has attracted thousands of followers from...
Member of the European Parliament and Britain's Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage waves a British flag after the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 29, 2020.(Xinhua/Zheng Huansong) ...
David Sassoli, the president of the European Parliament, said the UK now had a choice between a no-deal Brexit or a delay to leaving the EU beyond 31 October. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told fellow MEPs that a no-deal Brexit would prove popular with UK voters ...