No major party in the UK backed Jean-Claude Juncker, or any other ‘Spitzenkandidat’. It is therefore fair to say that the UK electorate had no influence over the course of what some describe as an ‘election’.The counter-charge is that David C…
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angela merkel, Cameron, EPP, european parliament, juncker, MEPs, spitzenkandidaten |
March 14, 2013
Earlier today we looked at how UK MEPs voted on the EU budget, pointing out that Lib Dems defied the national party line (earning them a telling-off from Nick Clegg). However, we thought it would also be interesting to round up how other national deleg…
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2014-2020 MFF, ALDE, democracy, EPP, EU budget, european parliament, MEPs, nick clegg |
September 21, 2012
This is spot-on.Sara Skyttedal, vice-president of the Youth wing of the European People’s Party – the pan-EU party Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso belongs to – has a blistering piece in today’s Svenska Dagbladet. She take…
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banking union, barroso, democracy, EPP, European federalism, eurozone, localism, Sweden |
December 4, 2009
This won’t be news to most people, but Members of the European Parliament get up to a great deal of stuff that goes pretty much completely unnoticed.Today the slightly underground French news service Agence Europe reports that the European Parliament’s…
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