David Cameron has been accused of leading the Conservatives out of mainstream European politics and joining forces with “a rag-bag of extremist parties” after succeeding in forming a new, anti-federalist group in the European parliament.
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TheHerald on 22nd Jun 2009 (via theherald.co.uk)
David Cameron said his Conservative party's move to create a new anti-federalist grouping in the European parliament would not fracture relations with other mainstream centre-right parties in Europe
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FT on 9th Jun 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Gary Titley MEP fires a broadside at Cameron’s Conservatives in Europe: “…Tories are still Tories. David Cameron might claim they have changed, but we see the real face of the Conservatives in the European parliament. In the last year alone Tory MEPs voted against fighting the trafficking of women, energy efficiency, the Fundamental Rights Agency and
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LabourMatters on 25th Sep 2008 (via labourmatters.com)
The announcement of the Tories’ formal establishment of the new anti-federalist grouping in the European Parliament – the European Conservatives and Reformists group – was (deliberately) buried by the party yesterday on a day when they realised political attention would be focused on the election to be Commons Speaker. Ever since David Cameron’s panicked and
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Jun 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The European Parliament's newest group, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), was formally established yesterday (22 June), spearheaded by the British Conservatives. While leading Tories hailed the break-up of the EU's centre-right "federalist cartel", others warned about the group's "ideological isolationism" and limited chances of success.
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EurActiv on 23rd Jun 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Oh dear. How must David Cameron rue the day he caved into his party’s right-wing and promised to withdraw the Tories from the centre-right EPP in the European Parliament and establish a new anti-federalist right-wing grouping. At the time it was a last-gasp roll of the dice solely calaculated to pep up his then faltering
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 15th Jul 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
David Cameron, the Conservative leader, unveiled the membership of the new alliance his party is forming in the European Parliament, after breaking away from the mainstream centre-right European People's Party in protest at its federalist approach
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FT on 22nd Jun 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Today I wish to praise Mark Francois. The Shadow Europe Minister has worked hard to create an anti federalist grouping in the European Parliament. He has helped David Cameron implement his vision of Conservative MEPs providing an opposition to “ever closer union” and the remorseless march of power
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JohnRedwood on 26th Jun 2009 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
Iain Dale has news of fresh ruptures in the Tories’ controversial European grouping. Here are the details: ‘Last week David Cameron held a meeting at Number Ten with the Polish presidential candidate, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the leader of the Conservatives & Reformist group in the European Parliament, Michal Kaminski. Kaminski was rather surprised to find that the leader of Cons...
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Spectator on 7th Jul 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
On 22nd June 2009 David Cameron announced that the UK Conservatives would form a new political group in the European Parliament, working together with reactionary and unpleasant parties such as Lijst de Decker from Belgium, Law & Justice from Poland and the Civic Democrats from the Czech Republic. The new group took the name European Conservatives and
President of the EPP Party Wilfried Martens has just upped the pressure on David Cameron by asking for a clear decision by April from the Tory leader as to whether the UK Conservatives will sit in the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament after the elections in June. This is at odds with the Cameron
