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1st February 2012 - Martin Callanan MEP, Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, takes part in a debate with the council and commission president on the outcome of the EU summit held on the 30th January 2012. Callanan warns that the intergovernmental fiscal compact would 'make socialism illegal' and suggested the commission scrap its employment directorate, which would help to stimulate job creation