Brussels, 25/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - Most of the European Parliament's political groups welcomed the proposal from the Commission to establish a statute and Community financing for European political parties (see EUROPE of 25 January, p.4).
Stressing that the draft statute will allow the sharing of responsibilities between parliamentary groups at the EP and the parties at European level to be clarified, the German president of the EPP/ED group, Hans-Gert Pöttering declared: "we will work...