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

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.

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

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

The row continues over at ConservativeHome about whether Conservative MEPs should leave the Euro-federalist Christian Democratic bloc in the European Parliament, the EPP. Some MEPs, emboldened by having already checked David Cameron on this issue, plainly believe they can do so again. My friend Charles Tannock, for example, argues that we could stay as we are, but dress it up as some sort of new E...

David Miliband MP, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, commenting on the Tories’ new European group, said: “With the current global economic and political circumstances, it is more vital than ever that Britain remains at the heart of Europe. The Conservatives under David Cameron’s leadership have dragged themselves from Euro scepticism to Euro extremism. “By removing the Cons...

Lib Dem Voice has covered before the growing embarrassment to the Tories of David Cameron’s decision to withdraw his party from the centre-right grouping in the European Parliament, the EPP, and to establish a new right-wing grouping with an eccentric, ragbag group of Euro MPs. This came to a head last month, when Edward McMillan-Scott,

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

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

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.