Brussels, 13/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - Unsurprisingly, the head of the European Parliament's EPP Group Joseph Daul was elected president of the European People's Party (EPP) at a political assembly on Tuesday 12 November. Daul, who obtained 112 votes out of 124, succeeds former Belgian prime minister Wilfried Martens. Martens had presided over the EPP for 23 years and died on 9 October.
“It is a great honour to receive this mandate and to be entrusted by the delegates from member parties,...