Issue 500 | 09 September 2019

Welcome back to all our existing readers and warm greetings to our new ones. We hope you enjoy our special ' La rentrée' edition.

Great expectations

Fresh from their victories in this year’s European elections, five of Parliament’s newest deputies from across the political spectrum - Karen Melchior, Erik Marquardt, Assita Kanko, Pierfrancesco Majorino and Isabel Benjumea - sat down with Lorna Hutchinson to discuss the paths that brought them to Brussels and what they hope the next five years have in store.