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...International Peace Tony’s picks of the week Sweden, a wealthy nation famed for its progressive values, is wrestling with gang warfare and one of Europe’s highest levels of fatal shootings, the FT’s Richard...
...But her centre-right EPP party is in pole position to retain the presidency, even if that means closer collaboration with Eurosceptic parties. And, for now, no one seems like a stronger EPP candidate....
...Although Fidesz is suspended from the EPP, its MEPs remain a significant part of Weber’s EPP group in the parliament....
...Richard Milne has more....
...Mr Weber said EPP support would hinge on two key criteria....
...The FT’s Richard Milne has the scoop....
...During the 2005 Tory leadership campaign, Mr Cameron vowed to pull his party out of the European parliament’s centre-right EPP grouping....
...Ms Merkel has pledged to stick to the EPP and German line but wants to find a deal acceptable to other EU members, including the UK....
.... ——————————————- Sarah Rotman Epps, privacy product manager, Facebook Schedule: about every other week from the San Francisco, one to three days per week....
...“My data belongs to me, that is the cornerstone of European thinking on data protection,” says Manfred Weber, vice-chairman of the EPP....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters and Maija Palmer...
...But with a radically different price point, analysts such as Sarah Rotman Epps at Forrester say that Amazon is set to expand the tablet category, not compete directly with the iPad....
...Moore, Jr., former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, former US Ambassador to the UN and Energy Secretary Richard Schiff, Actor Holland Laurens Jan...
...“There is only so much you can do with Windows 7 on a touchscreen,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, consumer PC and tablet analyst at Forrester Research. “It isn’t designed for a touch experience.”...
...Will it be a “traffic light” alliance (red socialist, amber liberals, green greens) to stop Barroso, or a “Gabon coalition” of blue EPP, greens and liberals?...
...But more people are reading e-books on Apple’s iPhone today than on the two market leading e-readers, the Kindle and Sony’s Reader, put together, according to Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester Research....
...The EPP did just that when Mr Barroso was appointed five years ago. But the left does not have the courage of its convictions....
...The point I think people are now beginning to understand is that the reason for leaving the EPP was not wanting to be hypocrites....
...Socialist leader Martin Schulz and centre-right EPP group leader Hans-Gert Pöttering in 2004 did a deal to split the title of elected speaker over the five years of parliament’s life between the two biggest...
...Mr Garment later became a lawyer and aide to Richard Nixon, in which role he recommended Mr Greenspan for his first government post....
...“Traditional EPP customers are more likely to opt for a Sipp or a group Sipp,” says Standard Life....
...A passage in that book, a collection of essays edited by Simon Green and Richard Whiting, sums up Cameron’s dilemma....
...Could it be that the EPP wants Schüssel to move centre-right governments toward a more ambivalent position? Officially the EPP is favourable to Turkish accession....
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