Brussels, 28/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a press release issued on 26 October, the president of the Socialist group of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz (SPD), strongly criticises "the partisan logic" which led the Italian president of the committee on legal affairs Giuseppe Gargani (Forza Italia) to include the Italian lawyer and former member of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament Carlo Casini (pontifical University Regina Apostolorum), Dagmar Pohunkova of the Czech Republic (who was not retained by President Barroso), the Slovakian professor of clinical pharmacology and hepatology Jozef Glasa and the German Catholic theologian Hille Haker, on the same list of potential members of the European Group on Ethics. "The list sent by Mr Gargani to the European Commission is not representative of the European Parliament; it is characterised by deep conservatism; it will completely unbalance the composition" of the group, writes Mr Schulz. Mr Schulz's reaction comes as the members of the European Group on Ethics have already been appointed by the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. They held their first meeting on 25 October and have appointed as their head Swedish philosopher Göran Hermeren (EUROPE 9056).