• Peter Liese, of the EPP Christian Democrat group at the European Parliament, welcomed the court's ruling.

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  • EPP, traditionally Christian Democrat, has been inched rightwards by French and British conservatives.

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  • French, Italian and Polish MEPs in the EPP group dissented relatively rarely from their party allies in the national government.

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  • Supporters of the EPP split insist the British will win new allies once the Tories break Strasbourg's smothering federalist consensus.

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  • But, Kieswetter has pledged his allegiance to England and has recently returned from a spell with the EPP in South Africa.

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  • The EPP has a clear majority in the Council and Parliament in the areas of economic and monetary policy and international trade.

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  • Forming our new group had a logic to it: the EPP is dominated by federalists and cheerleaders for the social market economy.

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  • Threatening to chuck Mr Orban out of the EPP could be the best way of steering him off the path towards autocracy.

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  • The government is planning to make the EPP available nationally by 2008.

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  • "Through the Arthritis Care self-management programme and the Experts Patient Programme (EPP) we are helping people to develop these skills, " said Mr Ladyman.

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  • The EPP did well, thanks to strong centre-right showings in some of the new members, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

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  • The EPP-ED group opposed selective congestion charges for lorries, citing the difficult economic conditions and arguing that all road users were responsible for congestion.

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  • Further proof came in another story making waves in Strasbourg, the departure of British Conservatives from the main centre-right group, the European People's Party (EPP).

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  • Supporters of the split say that the EPP has federalist views.

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  • Meanwhile, Joseph Daul, leader of the centre-right EPP group - of which the British Conservatives used to be a member - hit out at UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

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  • However, Markus Ferber, representing the centre-right EPP group in parliament, said the proposals should be rejected, arguing "there are better ways to save the world than via tax legislation".

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  • EPP, which is likely to remain the parliament's biggest political group, has rewritten its statutes so as to accommodate the British Tories, who explicitly reject the group's traditional federalism.

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  • Opponents say the Tories are taking a risk, as the EPP is home to almost all mainstream centre-right parties in Europe (one Tory MEP formally joined the EPP this week).

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  • The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) - the biggest grouping of MEPs - calls the new rules "the most comprehensive and most far-reaching banking regulation in the history of the EU".

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  • Heidi Reimer-Epp, chief executive of paper manufacturer Botanical PaperWorks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, says she sometimes quiets the buzz on her Up idle alert by doing a few jumping jacks in the office.

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  • Several MEPs from the centre-right EPP group criticised the European Parliament for holding a vote on Acta before the European Court of Justice deliver its ruling on the legality of the treaty.

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  • Although the 25 British Conservative Party MEPs have left the European People's Party to form the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), the EPP remains the strongest bloc in parliament with 264 seats.

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  • Again, what David has said, and I agree with him, is that it's inconsistent at the moment for us to sit with a Party, the EPP, where when we have profound disagreements (interjection) ...

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  • The parliament's new members will mostly sit in vaguely like-minded groupings, like the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the Party of European Socialists (centre-left) and the European Liberal Democrats (socially, and sometimes economically, liberal).

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  • For example, Britain's Conservatives, broadly pro-market and mildly Eurosceptic, sit in the EPP with continental Christian Democrats and Gaullists who are both more federalist (ie, favouring strong EU centre) and more comfortable with intervening in the economy.

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  • The challenge will be in maintaining relations with allies who will not leave the EPP, but think like us on climate change, EU spending or free trade - parties like the Swedish Moderates, or the Dutch Christian Democrats.

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  • South-East of England Conservative MEP Dan Hannan was there, later claiming the idea of a referendum after negotiation was his own suggestion, to cap the switch away from the EPP in Brussels that he first encouraged Cameron to make.

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  • Savvy, cynical professional investors are welcome to go long risky assets like EPP or IBB (a Pacific ex-Japan ETF and biotech ETF, respectively) for the ride, but you must be ready to rip these positions out within a week or two.

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  • So far as I can tell, Alaska Airlines was not objecting to deregulation itself, so implicitly it wanted to treat the EPP as severable from deregulation, but it wantred to treat the legislative veto as inseparable from the rest of the EPP.

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  • Even before he was prime minister he pulled the Conservative Party out of the European People's Party grouping in the EU, incurring the displeasure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EPP's leading light, and thereby excluding himself from the most powerful caucus that shapes decisions ahead of European summits.

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