Sentence examples similar to epp ed from inspiring English sources
A British Conservative MEP has just led the EPP-ED to victory on the services directive.
But we cannot do so with the millstone of withdrawal from the EPP-ED alliance round our necks.
Indeed, in December the leaders of 11 parties told him that they would refuse bilateral contact with the Tories if they withdraw from the EPP-ED.
The Tories strongly defend the new grouping on the grounds that it is wrong for the party to campaign on a Eurosceptic ticket in Britain only to sit in the highly federalist EPP-ED group in Strasbourg.
Their fears centre around Cameron's two key policies: The Tories have pledged to withdraw from the EPP-ED grouping, which consists of all the major centre-right parties within the EU.
Caroline Jackson, Tory MEP for the south-west of England, spoke out as the Tories held their final meetings in Strasbourg as part of the EPP-ED grouping before next month's elections.
This fulfils a pledge by Cameron during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest to leave the EPP-ED group in Strasbourg, the largest group, with members from the main centre right parties across the EU.
All Tory candidates have signed a form agreeing to join a new centre-right grouping after the election, allowing the Conservatives to leave the fiercely pro-European EPP-ED grouping.
When he committed to leave the centre-right European EPP-ED grouping in favour of an alliance with right-wing extremists, he whetted the appetite of his party's hard-right flank.
MEPs Ursula Gacek (EPP-ED, Poland), Baroness Sarah Ludford (ALDE, UK), and Jan Marinus Wiersma (PSE, Netherlands) told us that the results of the vote (542 in favor, 55 abstaining, 51 opposed) show the broad bipartisan support that the EP has for European resettlement efforts.
