EPP – Jon Worth's Euroblog

07.03.2014 EU Politics

BREAKING: first picture of EPP’s winning candidate in Dublin, Jean Claude Juncker

So the European People’s Party has a candidate for Commission President – Jean Claude Juncker. Tweet announcing the result is here. He’s going to be Merkel’s poodle. Image above is Creative Commons, Sharealike Licensed – can be used, for free,

07.03.2014 EU Politics

Gender balance at #EPPdublin

Europe’s Centre Right, the EPP, is holding its Congress yesterday and today in Dublin. Details about it here. Via @AnneLaumen on Twitter I was alerted to today’s speaker line up. Here’s an illustration of those speakers.

26.06.2009 EU Politics

Schizophrenic socialists and poker playing conservatives

Change or die is the message to the PES from Poul Nyrup Rasmussen on Labourlist today, and he has this to say about the EP: We now face the least progressive European Parliament in its history, with a far more

13.03.2009 EU Politics / UK Politics

Tories in the EP favouring symbolism over influence

So David Cameron is finally starting to make good his pledge to take the Conservatives out of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament, as covered by the FT Brussels blog, Richard Corbett and Iain Dale. There’s of course

02.02.2009 UK Politics

New Europe | Cameron: time to make up your mind on the EPP issue

“The President of the European People’s Party (EPP) Party, Wilfried Martens, has just upped the pressure on David Cameron by asking for a clear decision by April from the Tory leader as to whether the United Kingdom’s Conservatives will sit

31.01.2009 EU Politics / UK Politics

Cameron: time to make up your mind on the EPP issue

President of the EPP Party Wilfried Martens has just upped the pressure on David Cameron by asking for a clear decision by April from the Tory leader as to whether the UK Conservatives will sit in the EPP-ED group in