The European Conservatives and Reformists Group has welcomed today’s vote in Strasbourg on an own-initiative report aimed at reinforcing the role of national parliaments in EU law-making and ensuring that the European Commission respects subsidiarity and proportionality before submitting new legislative proposals.
27 November 2025
At the inaugural meeting of the European Parliament’s new Scrutiny Working Group on NGO Funding, proceedings were briefly disrupted when MEPs from the Socialists and Greens tried to prevent the session from starting.
26 November 2025
In a plenary debate in Strasbourg on the proposed Ukraine peace plan of US President Donald Trump and the EU’s role in it, ECR Foreign Affairs Coordinator Adam Bielan (PiS, Poland) sharply criticised the Union’s lack of initiative and its inconsistent behaviour.
26 November 2025
Today, ECR MEP Veronika Vrecionová, Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and Parliament’s rapporteur, has secured a political agreement with the Council on the EU’s first harmonised rules for the breeding, selling, import and identification of dogs and cats.
25 November 2025
The European Parliament wants to strengthen the protection of children online. But for the ECR Group, this is no justification for shifting parental responsibility to Brussels or creating new EU-level control systems.
25 November 2025
Speaking in the European Parliament’s debate on the escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, ECR Human Rights Subcommittee Coordinator Arkadiusz Mularczyk warned that the country is facing one of the most devastating crises of recent decades — a crisis that endangers civilians, destabilises Africa, and has direct consequences for Europe.
25 November 2025
The ECR Group voted against a completely misguided Parliament own-initiative report on the future of European competitiveness, warning that the text uses the Draghi report to justify a major expansion of EU powers, common debt and a shift towards more centralised decision-making.
25 November 2025
Safeguarding Europe’s supply chains against geopolitical pressure; Making the EU’s deforestation regulation workable for European businesses; European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP): Strengthening Europe’s Defence Readiness; Strengthening subsidiarity and the role of National Parliaments; Safeguarding children without opening the door to a digital surveillance state; The ECR wants a lighter digital framework to boost competitiveness and close Europe’s AI gap; EU must strengthen security against hybrid attacks; Military Mobility; Protection of consumers is fundamental; Protection of consumers is fundamental; Protection of consumers is fundamental; Toy Safety; Simplifying rules for SMEs; A stronger EU strategy for the Arctic; Protection of Christian communities and religious minorities; 30th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the Pact for the Mediterranean; Europe and Migration: The Italian Approach Transcending Ideologies; Lecture by author Mathieu Bock-Côté; ECR Working Group on reforming the Green Deal; Press briefing with ECR Co-Chairmen Nicola Procaccini and Patryk Jaki
21 November 2025