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Roberta Metsola is re-elected as President of the European Parliament with the highest number of votes ever registered for a candidate in the history of the European Parliament.
2024-07-16

President of the European Parliament David Sassoli dies in Aviano, Italy.
2022-01-11

Projections show the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) narrowly beating the governing centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in the popular vote by 1.7 percentage points, with the latter on course for its worst showing since the end of World War II. Both parties claim the mandate for the Chancellorship.
2021-09-26

Neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) politician Stefan Jagsch Jagsch is elected as the mayor of Altenstadt-Waldsiedlung in Altenstadt, Hesse, after running unopposed, prompting condemnations from Germany's political leaders, including SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil. Norbert Szilasko, a member of the council who voted Jagsch into office says, "We voted for him due to the fact we have nobody else".
2019-09-8

SPD party members approve with 66% in favour to allow to form a coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU-CSU, ending a five-month political deadlock after the federal elections.
2018-03-4

Antonio Tajani, the current President of the European Parliament, accepts the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to stand as a candidate for Prime Minister of Italy for Forza Italia.
2018-03-2

Martin Schulz resigns as leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) with immediate effect. The mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz will serve as interim leader until a new leader is elected.
2018-02-13

The Social Democratic Party congress votes to start talks on "whether and in what form" to support a new federal government.
2017-12-7

The Social Democratic Party of Germany endorses Martin Schulz as its leader.
2017-03-19

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon schedules a meeting Wednesday with European Parliament President Martin Schulz about remaining in the EU, and intends to discuss the Scottish issue with the European Commission.
2016-06-28