A conference could be staged in the New Year and talks started with private investors following the announcement today by European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker of an investment plan for Africa. In his State of the EU speech today President Juncker said that the plan, which builds on a report steered through the European [...]

STATE OF THE UNION ECR Leader Syed Kamall will respond to President Juncker’s State of the Union speech. Speaking of his expectations from the speech, he said: “While others call for “More Europe”, or “No Europe”, the ECR will be the only group calling for a “Better Europe” based on decentralisation, fairness, diversity and respect […]

ECR Group budgets spokesman Bernd Kölmel has introduced comprehensive proposals for reform of the EU budget on behalf of the Group. These proposals, adopted by the ECR Group today, amend the 2017 budget with savings of 225 million euros. “We do not, like the other groups, make only cosmetic changes and content ourselves with the […]

After European Parliament President Martin Schulz today tried to appoint the leader of the fourth largest group in the parliament as the institution’s only Brexit negotiator, the leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists Syed Kamall MEP said: “If the parliament wishes to appoint a Brexit negotiator then it must be a decision made by […]

Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia are still a fact. The tensions between Russia and Ukraine and between Russia and the West have not disappeared even though all eyes are currently fixed on the situation in Turkey and the flows of refugees into the Western world. Political prisoners in Russia face long-term imprisonment, torture, psychological abuse […]