Alviina Alametsä is a Green Party MEP from Finland. She took up her seat only in February 2020, after it was vacated by a departing UK MEP.
By re-distributing just 2 per cent of voters from the weakest to the strongest Remain party in each region, the pro-European side could snatch victory from the jaws of supposedly inevitable ‘defeat’.
Change UK has urged disillusioned pro-EU Labour members to “lend” the party their votes in the looming European elections to build support for a Final Say referendum.
Change UK: European election candidate David Macdonald quits to support Liberal Democrats
15/05/2019
'If things continue as they are the remain vote will split in Scotland', he says. / One of Change UK's lead European election candidates has quit to back the Liberal Democrats over concerns the new party could split the Remain vote in the upcoming contest.
New party says it has received more than 1,000 applications to stand in Europe elections from defectors from other parties.
A Christian man whose message of solidarity with Muslims went viral after the New Zealand terror attack is taking on Tommy Robinson in the European elections.
The European Parliament has launched a new mobile application designed to help citizens to discover what the EU has done, is doing and plans to do, is now available.
We are candidates standing as independents in the upcoming MEP elections. The Climate & Ecological Emergency Independents are inspired by the Youth Strikes 4 Climate, Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Conservative Party notifies members about running in EU elections, despite pledging to Brexit by 22 May
08/04/2019
The Conservative Party has drawn up emergency plans to select candidates for 23 May elections.
To break parliamentary deadlock, deal has to be put to public vote, Labour leader says
Corbyn facing fresh pressure to commit to second referendum after ‘furious’ MPs condemn leaked leaflet
26/04/2019
Almost 90 Labour MPs and MEPs demand party make ‘clear commitment’ to Final Say vote in manifesto for European parliament elections.
At least three local councils across England and Wales have admitted that they ran out of time to print and send postal ballots for the European elections to some overseas voters, leaving them effectively disenfranchised.
Cross-party group of 40 MEPs sign pledge to work together to keep EU membership on the table
04/09/2019
The MEP delegations of Labour, Greens, Liberal Democrats, Alliance, Plaid Cymru, and the SNP will formally cooperate.
Former TV journalist will replace Antonio Tajani.
EU legislators reached an agreement on Thursday on the 5 billion euro Brexit Adjustment Reserve, paving the way for a first payment by December.
Some are being told the problems are due to the election only being confirmed at the last minute. / EU citizens have reported being turned away at polling stations for the European elections, despite being registered to vote.
The government now stands at a crossroads, and the first step they must take is to expand full voting rights to every permanent citizen in the country.
It's cock-up, not conspiracy - but the end result is the same. Countless EU citizens in the UK are being blocked from voting in the European parliamentary elections by onerous bureaucratic requirements, institutional complacency, and an administrative system which was taken by surprise that they were happening at all.
Commission president draws attention to less well-known area where two sides are at odds.
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed the post-Brexit trade deal between Britain and the European Union, clearing the last hurdle towards its ratification, while expressing clear mistrust of the British government.
Don’t fear European Parliament elections – they could help drain the Brexit swamp of UK politics
08/04/2019
The million who marched in London for a new referendum or the six million who signed the Revoke Article 50 petition will have a chance to vote for what they want.
EU citizen votes - Call to investigate claims of EU voters being denied their right to vote (Scottish Government)
24/05/2019
Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell has called for an investigation into reports that EU citizens were unable to vote in the EU Parliament elections.