German Chancellor Angela Merkel's favoured successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer sparked outrage on social media on Tuesday with an apparent call for limits to free speech around elections.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's successor sparks freedom of speech uproar

Pro-European parties kept a firm grip on the EU parliament on Monday as liberal and green parties matched a surge by eurosceptic parties, who won control of a quarter of seats in European elections for the first time.

Nationalists surge in EU Parliament, but pro-EU parties remain dominant

Emmanuel Macron may have ended up with a disappointing second place in the European election in France, but his battle for influence in Brussels can now begin in earnest - and he is in a stronger position to wage that fight than two years ago.

Despite bruised ego, Macron starts real campaign for Brussels influence

Britain's two main parties promised on Monday to work to resolve the deadlock over Brexit, hoping to win back voters who abandoned them for a new movement led by eurosceptic Nigel Farage at European elections.

After European election disaster, Britain's main parties to offer Brexit clarity

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party stormed to victory in a European election, riding a wave of anger at the failure of Prime Minister Theresa May to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.

United Kingdom ever more polarised as Brexit Party storms to European Union vote win

With double-digit scores across Europe's biggest countries including a stunning 20 per cent in Germany, the Greens bagged record gains in EU elections on Sunday with younger voters leading calls for action to halt global warming.

'Green wave' in European Union vote amid climate crisis

Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is to face a no-confidence vote from MPs on Monday which could see him removed from office over the corruption scandal which brought down his coalition government.

Austrian chancellor set for no-confidence showdown

Voter turnout at European Parliament elections has dropped steadily over the years, hitting a record low of 43 per cent at the last poll in 2014. As the May 23-26 elections for the European Union's assembly wind up, here is an overview.

Why turnout has dropped in European elections

The European People's Party (EPP) is going into Sunday's European elections with a declaration of war on nationalists and populists, as well as appeals for new unity in the EU.

Weber vows to fight populists, calls for EU unity

Voters were called out for a third day in EU parliamentary elections on Saturday as populists hoped to win a major breakthrough and disrupt European politics for the next five years.

European Union votes as populists seek historic breakthrough

In a shift since the last European Parliament elections, mainstream parties have adopted climate change as a rallying cry -- spurred in part by a wave of student strikes.

Main European Union parties adopt climate change as rallying cry

Compulsory voting to proxy voting to voting online: How 21 countries vote in European elections

Britain will have to take part in European Parliament elections on May 23 as there is not enough time left to get an exit deal ratified by parliament before then, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Tuesday.

Britain will take part in European Parliament elections: Minister

The prospect of Britain holding European elections would have been unthinkable just weeks ago but with the Brexit timetable now uncertain, the country is reluctantly planning for a possible campaign.

On the quiet, UK prepares for 'zombie' European polls