"Rescue packages and short-term liquidity are not a solution to the crisis," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said at the weekend. The budgetary pact is already all-but agreed, even if not everyone sees its value. In the view of former Belgian...

“We say you are taking the road of Chavez, Castro and all the world’s totalitarian and authoritarian regimes," said France’s Daniel Cohn- Bendit, a co-leader of the Greens and a constant, caustic critic of Israeli polices. He was joined in his criticism...

"We have a budget in line with EU stability. We banned all paramilitary organisations and we have protections for all minorities. We will always defend minorities," he said. Orban's speech failed to appease most MEPs in a debate which dragged on into...

Former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the parliament's Liberals and Democrats, accused Orban of being "on the wrong path" and urged an inquiry into whether there was "a risk of a serious breach of our values" in Hungary. Orban retorted that...

Leading MEPs on Wednesday accused the commission of being too mild on Orban and called for more fundamental action. The leaders of the liberals and the Greens in the parliament, Guy Verhofstadt and Dany Cohn-Bendit, called for an investigation into...

Greens' co-leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit said in reference to controversial changes to the Hungarian constitution. Cohn-Bendit said the parliament should send a delegation to "ask why it is that homeless people, intellectuals, Jewish intellectuals are...