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...Already two committees with representatives from both the EPP and the S&D have reached compromises....
...Mr Tusk was the only candidate to succeed Joseph Daul, the EPP president....
...Malta murder Joseph Muscat, prime minister of Malta, will consider a pardon plea for a middleman charged with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia....
...The liberals will also get the equality and human rights portfolio assigned to Greece’s Margaritis Schinas (EPP) for Vera Jourova....
...Muscat’s succession Malta’s embattled prime minister Joseph Muscat is under pressure to resign immediately rather than wait for a new leader to take over his ruling Labour Party in January....
...By doing so, the Fidesz Party would send a signal that it continues to be interested in being a Member of the EPP”, Mr Weber wrote to Joseph Daul, EPP chairman....
...Witnesses marvel at how today’s national leaders — some of the most powerful men and women in Europe — sit attentively at gatherings while Joseph Daul, EPP president, delivers “finger-wagging lectures” to...
...Kyriakos Mitsotakis, head of Greece’s New Democracy, said Mr Orban had “crossed a line” and would write to EPP president Joseph Daul calling for his suspension on Monday....
..., Markus Söder, leader of the Bavarian CSU and Joseph Daul, the EPP president, at a conspiratorial dinner in Berlin on June 26....
...Mr Weber has backed Mr Orban for years, but has taken a harder line after 13 of the parties within the EPP wrote to Joseph Daul, the group’s president, requesting that Fidesz be ejected....
...It took a threat of immediate resignation by Joseph Daul, the EPP president, and a concession to present the suspension as a “mutually agreed” decision to forge a compromise....
...Joseph Daul, the EPP’s president, told reporters there was no rush to conclude the negotiations on top jobs. EU rules allow Mr Juncker to stay in office until a replacement is found....
...In the last week, pro-Orban newspapers have redoubled attacks on Manfred Weber, EPP candidate for the commission presidency, and targeted Joseph Daul, the EPP’s president....
...The previous week he had appeared at a Maltese Labour party European election campaign rally with Joseph Muscat, the country’s prime minister....
...In an effort to demonstrate his anti-Orban credentials and bat away accusations that he has provided cover for the Hungarian’s antics, Weber last night wrote to EPP president Joseph Daul setting out three...
...(Politico) Weber maker Der Spiegel has a perceptive profile of Joseph Daul, the EPP’s backroom powerbroker who made the career of Manfred Weber, but may have disappointed when the centre-right Spitzenkandidat...
...Seeing the writing on the wall, Joseph Daul, the EPP’s president, told reporters that “the first post that we are going to seek to defend” is the commission presidency....
...Joseph Daul, EPP president, said the party had “nothing to be ashamed of” and shrugged off the political squeeze facing centre-right governments, saying “those who are in power always lose”....
...Mr Barnier tweeted his letter to Joseph Daul, president of the EPP, with the comment that “I have decided today not to run for the nomination as the EPP’s European elections lead candidate . . ....
...The number of EPP parties who want to discuss booting out Mr Orban has now risen to 12, according to party chairman Joseph Daul. The debate and vote is due on March 20....
...EPP leader Joseph Daul wrote in a tweet last week that he was “disappointed” by the Macedonian opposition’s role in the process, adding that “constructive co-operation must prevail over boycott”....
...Joseph Daul, EPP president, gave short shrift to a question on Wednesday about whether the grouping would soon move to expel the Hungarian leader’s Fidesz party....
...It is time for the EPP to expel it from the group. As with Poland, the EU’s means for countering Hungary’s assault on European rules and values remain limited....
...Joseph Daul, the EPP’s president, and Manfred Weber, its chairman, should be asked directly: Why are you consenting to this? Why are you legitimating Orban?...
...The EPP’s president, Joseph Daul, is little known even in his native France. “We are EPP…” But its congress has political star power....
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