Centrist Emmanuel Macron clung on to his status as favorite to win France's presidential election in a four-way race that is too close to call, as the camp of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ramped up its eurosceptic rhetoric in a row with Brussels.more
Nicola Sturgeon has warned of the "damage" an increased Conservative majority at Westminster would cause, stating that in the coming UK election "only the SNP stands between Scotland and an increasingly hard-line Tory government".more
Downing Street has said Prime Minister Theresa May will not be taking part in a TV debate ahead of a general election on June 8. Opposition leaders of all stripes have accused her of running scared.more
Theresa May has ordered her closest allies to draft a Tory election manifesto that makes a clean break from the David Cameron era, as she tries to define her own domestic agenda.more
Early elections in the UK do not change the plans of the preparations for the start of the Brexit negotiations - informed a source close to the head of the European Council Donald Tusk.more
French police thwarted an imminent "terror attack" and arrested two suspected radicals Tuesday in the southern port city of Marseille, French authorities said Tuesday, just days before the first round of France's presidential election.more
The Prime Minister needs a two-thirds majority, which she is certain to get given that all the opposition parties have said they will support the move.more
British voters can use a snap election called on Tuesday to show what kind of relationship they want with the European Union, the European Parliament's point-man on Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt, said in a statement.more
