James Mates

The new French President may have 'a key lesson for traditional, progressive, pro-EU centrists everywhere'.

Well that’s what I call a political debate! Minimum structure, no holding back on the insults, the moderators uselessly urging restraint .

The European Union summit will see leaders discuss the migrant crisis between Italy and Libya, defence and Nato, and Donald Trump.

Another leader is toppled and the European 'establishment' now stand in terror of voters with 2017 set to host a series of big elections.

There seems to be a growing suspicion among senior British politicians that the Europeans are not taking Brexit seriously enough.

The symbolic importance of Hungary's referendum on whether to reject EU migrant quotas is going to be huge, right across Eastern Europe.

Austria was supposed to have elected a new president back in May. As it stands, a far-right leader could still be installed in the country.

EU leaders are agreed that Britain should not join today's meeting on a cruise ship on the Danube, but that is about all they can agree on.

With Boris Johnson's controversial Leave campaign still fresh in the minds of Europe's leaders, his elevation has angered the continent.

After the chaos unleashed in the UK by last month’s Brexit vote, two more plebiscites are looming after the summer break.