Briefing No 3: June 2006 In our first two special CGE Briefings on the Conservatives and the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament – published in January and March 2006 – we looked in detail at the nature of the Conservative MEPs’ deal with the Group, and showed how there was no credible alternative to… » read more
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Briefing No 2: March 2006 Meet the new Allies: Alternatives to the EPP-ED Group Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Brussels in late January to talk to potential allies about putting together a new conservative grouping in the European Parliament. By all accounts, the visit seems to have proved rather frustrating. He found that few,… » read more
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Briefing No 1: January 2006 1) The Conservative MEPs’ deal with the EPP-ED Group The Conservative MEPs sit in the large centre-right EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament. The terms of membership give our MEPs the advantages of being part of by far the largest political group – in which nearly all major centre-right parties… » read more
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This blog will use the remaining 18 days until the European Parliament elections to address the critical issue of how UK Conservatives propose to relate to the political group system in Brussels/Strasbourg. This blog is non-party political. However, it recognises that a likely UK Conservative government from 2010 will be constrained in its EU policy… » read more
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