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...The ruling Fidesz party has been suspended from its political bloc, the centre-right EPP, and faces expulsion....
...(FT) EU top jobs summit stalls A summit in Brussels broke down on Sunday after eastern European leaders and the centre-right EPP scuppered a compromise to appoint Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to the...
...In recalling this episode, Cameron shows little understanding of the damage that the decision to leave the EPP had on his ability to make friends and create alliances in Europe....
...The centre-right European People’s party group, meanwhile, can clearly see the downsides of Britain holding an election and returning no EPP MEPs and lots of Socialists and populists....
...This article was co-authored with Dimitris Valatsas ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Populists will remain until ruling elites get message / From Mr William Bigelow...
...“When we advocate for a particular type of privacy regulation, we’re advocating the Obama administration’s view on how we should deal with data privacy,” says William Kennard, the US ambassador to the EU...
...William Lynch, Barnes & Noble’s chief executive, told the Financial Times: “We’re a reading company. We find it offensive, if you are disappearing into a book, to be assaulted by an ad.”...
...Sarah Rotman Epps, analyst at Forrester Research, described the new tablet as a “wow” product that was perfectly timed and at a decent price....
...Sarah Rotman Epps, analyst at Forrester Research, said, “The question for the core Barnes & Noble business is that if they don’t have Nook, what do they have?”...
...But in reality it was Mr Cameron and William Hague, the UK foreign secretary, who decided on tactics. They wanted the bid to be kept secret from two potential adversaries....
...David Cameron would make clear the government’s opposition to any such move if – as it “very probably” would – it came up at a European Council summit on Thursday, William Hague said on Sunday....
...William Borucki, the mission’s principal investigator, says the preliminary results suggest that about half the stars in our galaxy have at least one planet; that would give a galactic total of hundreds...
...The decision to withdraw from the EPP, moreover, was low on substance and high on opportunism....
...And what makes the Tories’ absence all the more extraordinary is that a majority of the speakers at the EPP congress are speaking in English....
...Instead David Cameron, the probable next British prime minister, and William Hague, his shadow foreign secretary, have cobbled together a brittle coalition of also-ran rightwingers in the European parliament...
...“It is a very emotional subject in Berlin, where people like Hans-Gert Pöttering [former leader of the EPP and president of the European parliament] keep reminding the chancellor of the issue.”...
...Mr Lellouche said the Tories’ withdrawal from the mainstream centre-right EPP group in the European parliament meant the party had “marginalised themselves”....
...It’s more likely that they will work as three parties,” an EPP official predicted. The EPP is confident the 26 Conservative MEPs will side with them on the single market and economics....
...Pulling Britain out of the social chapter would be top of a Conservative government’s wish-list for such negotiations, William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, suggested on Tuesday....
...William Hague, shadow foreign secretary, travelled to Strasbourg on Wednesday to give the EPP formal notice of the Conservatives’ intention to quit....
...The chill, though, will return if he withdraws the Conservatives from the EPP. An attempt to overturn Lisbon would put relations into the deep freeze. There is one other possibility....
...Despite the plan to quit the EPP, Mr Hague says Mr Cameron has good relations with the two biggest centre-right figures in Europe: Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, and Angela Merkel, German chancellor....
...Daul, a Frenchman, said the remarks were “disgraceful” and incompatible with EPP values....
...David Cameron, the British Conservative leader, who wants out of the EPP, declined to show yet again. He did not even send his , former leader William Hague....
...Mr Cameron and William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, cancelled their scheduled engagements on Wednesday night to fly to Prague for private talks with the Czech Civic Democrats (ODS)....
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