Brussels, 09/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Hans-Gert Pöttering has been an MEP since the first election of European deputies by universal suffrage in 1979. He is the outgoing president of the EPP-ED group and is likely to be taking over from Spanish Socialist Josep Borrrell Fontelles at the presidency of the European Parliament. During the election on Tuesday 16 January in Strasbourg, the agreement between the EPP-ED and PES groups, which was obtained at the beginning of the legislature on the...