03/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European People's Party (EPP), chaired by former Belgian minister Wilfried Martens, will be publishing a new study by the International Republican Institute at the European Parliament in Brussels on 7 November on 'Why we lost? Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Centre-Right Parties in Central Europe, 1996-2002'. Two of the book's authors, Mantas Adomenas and Svetoslav Malinov, will describe the victories, defeats and reconfiguration of several political parties in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, explains a press release. (Info: Beatriz Toribo, EPP Press Service, Tel: +32 2 285 41 56, +32 475 480 446, e-mail btoribo@epp-eu.org)