Strasbourg, 10th March 2010 - Baroness Ashton must now bang heads together to ensure that the creation of the EU's External Action Service (EAS) does not cause the EU to return to the introspection that marked the debate over the Lisbon Treaty, Charles Tannock MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists group foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, said today.
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MEPs call for EU Tobin taxA new Financial Transaction Tax to fund climate change and development are not the right way forward, ECR economic spokesman Kay Swinburne MEP warned today after the European Parliament called for their introduction - potentially at EU level.
Strasbourg, 10th March 2010
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Ashton back-tracking already on EU defence policyIn the European Parliament today (10 March) Baroness Ashton 's position on the formulation of the new EU foreign and defence policy came under scrutiny from Conservative Security and Defence Spokesman Geoffrey Van Orden who commented: "EU Security and Defence Policy deliberately confuses military and civil crisis management in order to justify an EU role. It relies on a bogus narrative concerning EU operations and increasingly seeks to involve the European Commission in areas which are properly the responsibility of our nations or of Council."
Strasbourg, 10th March 2010
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United with Lajos Bokros and MDF: ECR Bureau Visit to BudapestThe delegation was led by the President of the ECR Group, Michał Kamiński, who underlined Lajos Bokros' key role in the Conservative Group and his vast knowledge and expertise in the field of economics. The leader of the Euroconservatives also noted that the plan presented by Mr Bokros is the best formula for Hungary to overcome the financial crisis.
Budapest, 3rd March 2010
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Mirek Topolanek: The European conservatives are much more powerful within the ECR GroupThe former Czech Prime minister and the Czech ODS party leader Mirek Topolanek addressed the ECR Group meeting on Tuesday. He applauded the Group´s success and efforts up to now. "Your constructive and hard work in the committees shows the ECR as a serious partner for the centre-right wing in the European Parliament. You have already proven to be a reasonable mainstream group and I´m sure the ECR Group will be much more powerful in the future," Mirek Topolanek said.
Brussels, 2nd March
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