Tuesday, January 31, 2006
If its not one its the other!
Ok its been awhile, lets get this blog going again......
As Hague, Osbourne and Fox consider how they are going to resuscitate Conservative links with the US, William Hauge has re-iterated, possibly the only firm Cameron policy which is to withdraw shortly from the European People's Party and European Democrats in the European Parliament.
William has been busily holding discussions with centre right parties throughout Europe in the hope to secure a new Party within the European Parliament. However "in December, the group's leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Austrian Chancellor and current EU President, Wolfgang Schuessel, warned Cameron he risked being ignored by them if he went ahead with the move".
None of these leaders seem willing to back down and join the Conservative break-away faction, so is it a lost cause? Does the Conservative Party risk losing some important allies? Does it risk opening up old arguments on Conservative policy towards Europe?
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# posted by Rob @ 11:15 pm 
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Its obviously a tough question, but perhaps we could ask ourselves how powerful we are in influencing the overall direction of the EU from the EPP. If we do have some power, we should stay in the EPP and try and influence the process. If the issue of staying in the EPP is merely one of image, then there is no reason to stay because the majority of British conservatives want a much weaker union, let alone "ever closer union".
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