The EPP Group deplores the postponement of the final vote on the Economic Governance Package in July and hopes that an agreement can be found before the summer break.

Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group, said: "The EPP Group is determined to go ahead with the negotiations on the remaining issue with the Council and the Commission to reach a compromise and vote on the full package before the summer break."

In a manifesto published today on the occasion of the start of the incoming Polish Presidency of the EU, ETNO outlines its key priorities for boosting the Digital Agenda, which include spectrum, conditions for NGA investment and a digital single market for content.
 

Abdou Diouf, Secrétaire général de la Francophonie, se réjouit de la libération, ce mercredi 29 juin 2011, des journalistes Hervé Ghesquière et Stéphane Taponier ainsi que de leur interprète, Réza Din.

"The European Union will need more than creative accounting to finance the objectives and commitments we have agreed," said EPP Group MEP Salvador Garriga, after a first glance at the European Commission's proposal on the multiannual financial framework for the EU after 2013.

The President of the European People’s Party (EPP), Wilfried Martens, has warmly welcomed the appointment of Christine Largarde as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Christine Lagarde has co-chaired since 2010 the EPP EcoFin Ministerial meeting: