EU plans for criminal rights information must not lead to harmonisation

Cities are critical and necessary for achieving EU objectives on a wide range of issues and this must be reflected in EU policy and funding, a seminar organised by ECR member Oldřich Vlasák determined this week.

Hugo Chavez is being allowed to escape the condemnation he deserves because of support from left-wing politicians, European Conservatives and Reformists group foreign affairs spokesman Charles Tannock has said today. The parliament has today adopted a resolution authored by the centre-right EPP and ECR groups, which the socialist group would not sign.

The Belgian Presidency's focus on 'More Europe' as the solution to the Eurozone problem risks creating a Tower of Babel effect, Derk Jan Eppink MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists bureau member from Belgium, said today.

He made his remarks during a European Parliament debate with the Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, whose country has assumed the rotating Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

The new Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme with the USA - finally passed by MEPs - will safeguard both lives and liberties, Timothy Kirkhope MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists group home affairs spokesman, said today.

Strasbourg, 6th July 2010 -- The European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament was not initially supportive of the creation of an EU External Action Service but it will now engage constructively in the new architecture, Charles Tannock MEP, ECR foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament will say later today. The parliament will debate the service this afternoon, ahead of a vote tomorrow morning.