EPP Group calls for European coordination when lifting lockdown
The EPP Group has called for a “gradual, cautious, well-coordinated and forward-looking plan” to lift the Coronavirus confinement and lockdown measures in EU countries, said Markus Ferber MEP, the EPP…
Europe will never allow itself to be blackmailed – EPP GROUP
The EPP Group strongly supports the Greek and Bulgarian Governments in their efforts to maintain order at their borders with Turkey. “Europe will never allow itself to be blackmailed. Turkish…
Family Dispute Resolution
Disputing parenting rights can take a lot of time and emotional energy. It can also be very stressful. If your child or parents cannot settle a dispute by writing a…
MFF: Commission’s plan “impossible to implement” with Finnish proposal
For Parliament’s negotiating team, the preliminary proposal by Finland’s presidency of the Council for the next long-term budget of the EU would “condemn the European Union to failure”. Today, the…
EPP Group congratulates Donald Tusk on his election
Manfred Weber MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP Group The EPP Group wholeheartedly congratulates Donald Tusk on his election as new President of the European People’s Party, today at the…
Wolfgang Schäuble: “Without European unification, there would be no German unity”
Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the German Parliament, addresses plenary in a commemoration of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.© EP EP President David Sassoli and President of the…
Trump starts USA’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday announced that the country has begun the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change by submitting a formal notification to…
Final turnout data for 2019 European elections announced
The official and final turnout of the 2019 European Elections is set at 50.66% (up 8.06 pp on 2014), following the publication all 28 final national turnout data. On 18…
MEPs adopt plan to keep 2020 EU funding for UK in no-deal Brexit scenario
UK researchers, students and farmers should continue to get EU support in the event of a no-deal Brexit, under provisions adopted by the full house on Tuesday. Parliament approved a…