Jean-Claude Juncker

European Parliament President Martin Schulz has been elected the leader of the body’s Social Democrat bloc, reports Deutsche Welle. 

With 191 seats, the group is the European Parliament’s second-largest faction.

Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet (photo) entered the tussle over who leads the European Commission, backing Jean-Claude Juncker’s bid to win the post over U.K. opposition.

Jean-Claude Juncker could pull out of the race for European Commission President, according to diplomatic sources.

The former Prime Minister of Luxembourg was pitted as the favorite after his European People's Party (EPP) won the most seats in the European Parliament in May's elections.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde has ruled out the possibility of becoming the next European Commission President.

By Costas Iordanidis

High-ranking New Democracy officials met on Tuesday for the first time since the European Parliament and local elections to assess the result of the vote, but the meeting ended without a decision on how the conservatives will seek to convince hundreds of thousands of voters who have abandoned the party to return.

German politicians want "British blackmail" rejected

BERLIN -- With his threat that Britain might leave the EU if Jean-Claude Juncker is made head of the EC, David Cameron seems to have angered German politicians.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, who was the European Left’s candidate for Commission president, is to meet several of his rival hopefuls in Brussels on Wednesday.

By Angelos Stangos

The history of the European Union is one of constant change and the emergence of new dynamics. It is all about compromises and procedures that lead to the final product, which is the decisions that are made and then implemented.

Legislators of Democratic Left (DIMAR), a former coalition partner which suffered a battering in last week’s European Parliament elections, met on Friday to discuss strategy and rejected an offer by party leader Fotis Kouvelis to resign from his post.