Tag: EPP

Greens in the European Parliament abstained from voting on a report aimed at tackling youth unemployment, calling it “weak” and saying that it puts too much of the blame on young people.

Hannes Swoboda, president of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, called yesterday (16 April) on the European Commission to investigate a wiretapping scandal in Bulgaria.

Political parties should nominate a candidate for European Commission President in the 2014 EU elections and display their European political party affiliation, the EU Executive recommended yesterday (12 March). 

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Spain's ruling People's Party denied today (31 January) that the party passed payments from business donors secretly to the premier and other party leaders after a newspaper published what it said were unofficial party accounts.

The Italian political saga took another turn after both outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti and former premier Silvio Berlusconi appeared at the European People’s Party meeting on the margins of the EU summit today (13 December) in Brussels.

Rights groups have accused France’s Socialist leaders of abandoning electoral promises by continuing the arbitrary expulsions of Eastern European Roma that were begun under former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Centre-right MEPs and party officials are warming up to the idea of changing current policies and strategies, including Europe 2020, to rapidly tackle crisis-led challenges and prepare electoral platforms for the 2014 European elections, participants found last week at the Economic Ideas Forum in Dublin.

The annual congress of the European People’s Party (EPP), which closes in Marseille today, is seen as a forerunner to the wider EU summit tonight in Brussels and gives a glimpse of things to come, EurActiv reports from Marseille.

Meeting in Helsinki late on Saturday (5 March), leaders from the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) derided the absence of two of the four centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) prime ministers from an alternative summit held simultaneously in Athens.

Despite persistent rumours, the ruling British Conservative Party denied suggestions that they would eventually return to the mainstream centre-right EPP group in the European Parliament. EurActiv spoke to a leading party representative yesterday (31 May).

Ahead of his inaugural speech today, newly-elected president of the European Parliament, Polish centre-right MEP Jerzy Buzek (EPP), gave EurActiv a glimpse of his priorities for the coming years in an interview. 

The European Parliament shifted to the right not because the centre-right won the EU elections, but rather due to the Socialists' inability to convince voters that they can tackle the economic crisis, Simon Hix, professor at the London School of Economics, told EurActiv in an interview.

Some 2,000 workers from the iconic Gdańsk shipyards protested against European Commission President José Manuel Barroso as he arrived in Warsaw to participate in the Congress of the European People's Party (EPP), which confirmed his candidacy for a second term.

Female politicians in the UK do well in the European Parliament as it offers "the sort of politics women like to be associated with" and is "much more collegial, much more consensual and less confrontational 'ya-boo' boy politics of Westminster," the leader of the UK Labour delegation in the European Parliament, Glenis Willmott, told EurActiv in an interview.

The chairman of Hungary's largest opposition party, Fidesz, embarked on a trans-European tour last week in an effort to encourage cooperation between Central and Eastern European conservative parties ahead of elections to the European Parliament in June. EurActiv Hungary reports.

The Idea Factory, a new European platform that aims to produce thought-provoking ideas, presents a controversial Manifesto for a new, pro-European political group.

In an interview with EurActiv, the MEP and member of the ruling French party UMP warned centrist leader François Bayrou against leaving the EPP to form a coalition with the liberals in the new parliament.

The 'Lisbon' buzzword pops up in all the election manifestos. Nevertheless, the parties' priorities as to precisely how to boost EU competitiveness show some significant differences.

The new leader of the Tory Party, Michael Howard, has softened his party's approach to European integration, but remains opposed to a European Constitution and to his country joining the euro.

A two-day election congress of the European People's Party in Brussels has started the battle for the next Commission President.

Ministers, Commissioners and personalities close to the European People's Party will participate in the party's Congress in Brussels on 4 and 5 February 2004.

European People's Party (EPP) calls for EU Member States to ratify Nice Treaty