European People's Party Group

In 2002, he was named the first ever honorary member of the European People's Party group.

And he should take the Conservatives back into the European People's Party group.

The network was launched in the summer of 2002 with the active support of the European People's Party Group.

Joseph Daul, chairman of the European People's Party group, stated:

He was elected on the New Democracy ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.

However, I - and this also applies to the European People's Party Group - cannot endorse the proposals coming from the committee.

The European People's Party Group did succeed in one respect: there was no majority in favour of double testing all chemicals.

Parties from certain European countries have been unwilling to join the centre-right European People's Party group.

Nicholson was initially a member of the European People's Party group in the European Parliament.

They are restricted, at least formally, to amendments from the Committee on Fisheries which the European People's Party group is pleased to support.

The working groups are in continuous contact with the European People's Party Group to ensure cohesion between the work of EIN and needs of MEP's.

Upon election, she immediately left the PDL delegation and its European People's Party group and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists.

Mr President, yesterday I agreed on a compromise for this amendment with the European People's Party Group, as I insist that the words 'comprehensive care systems' should be included.

European People's Party Group - Chairman Joseph Daul stated: "Otto von Habsburg embodied the history of European integration like no-one else.

In May 2004, he was elected as Vice-President of the Congress of the Council of Europe, where he is a member of the European People's Party group.

He has done so on behalf of the European People's Party Group, and I shall do so on behalf of the Party of European Socialists.

He was formerly a Member of the European Parliament in the European People's Party group, and was President of the European Parliament from 1997 to 1999.

So, Commissioner, I am very glad that you were present at the European People's Party group's hearing, and that collaboration between environmentalists and your department has developed extraordinarily well in the last few years.

When Conservatives from Denmark and the United Kingdom joined, they created the European Conservatives Group, which (after some name changes) eventually merged with the European People's Party Group.

As opposition leader, Iain Duncan Smith attempted to disaffiliate the British Conservative Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the federalist European People's Party group.

A centrist conservative, he has been vice-chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe, and has criticized the UK Conservative Party of leaving the European People's Party group.

After the election, the Spanish Popular Alliance left the ED to join the European People's Party Group (EPP), a more pro-European and Christian democratic group than the ED.

The Robert Schuman Foundation is a Christian Democratic think tank affiliated with the European People's Party group in the European Parliament, and named in honour of statesman Robert Schuman.

Since 2005, Martínez-Casan has been the director of the European Ideas Network (EIN) a centre-right Think Tank sponsored by the European People's Party Group (EPP Group).

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.