The European Conservatives and Reformists Group welcomes the adoption of the European Union list of safe countries of origin in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs as a key step towards migration rules that are clear, credible and applicable in practice.
3 December 2025
On Wednesday 3 December, the ECR Group welcomed Argentina’s Minister for Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger, to the European Parliament for an in-depth discussion on what has become known worldwide as the Milei Government’s “chainsaw” approach — cutting through layers of bureaucracy so that citizens and businesses can finally breathe, compete and innovate.
3 December 2025
Following the conclusion of the trilogue negotiations on the EU Anti-Corruption Directive, ECR Shadow Rapporteur Mariusz Kamiński criticised the agreement as “far below what Europeans had been promised and expected.”
2 December 2025
Are energy drinks harming minors? ENVI opens public hearing; Drones and New Systems of Warfare – vote on ECR-led initiative report in the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE); Cutting through Bureaucracy - Argentina’s ‘chainsaw’ policy; Targeted Violence against Christians in South Asia; Beyond the Obstacle: Stories of talent; Facing the Academic Front against Israel
28 November 2025
The European Conservatives and Reformists Group has welcomed today’s vote in Strasbourg on an own-initiative report aimed at reinforcing the role of national parliaments in EU law-making and ensuring that the European Commission respects subsidiarity and proportionality before submitting new legislative proposals.
27 November 2025
At the inaugural meeting of the European Parliament’s new Scrutiny Working Group on NGO Funding, proceedings were briefly disrupted when MEPs from the Socialists and Greens tried to prevent the session from starting.
26 November 2025
In a plenary debate in Strasbourg on the proposed Ukraine peace plan of US President Donald Trump and the EU’s role in it, ECR Foreign Affairs Coordinator Adam Bielan (PiS, Poland) sharply criticised the Union’s lack of initiative and its inconsistent behaviour.
26 November 2025
Today, ECR MEP Veronika Vrecionová, Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and Parliament’s rapporteur, has secured a political agreement with the Council on the EU’s first harmonised rules for the breeding, selling, import and identification of dogs and cats.
25 November 2025
The European Parliament wants to strengthen the protection of children online. But for the ECR Group, this is no justification for shifting parental responsibility to Brussels or creating new EU-level control systems.
25 November 2025
