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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9929

26 June 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/political groups
Martin Schulz refuses to swap technical agreement with EPP against Socialists' support for Barroso vote in July

Brussels, 25/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Socialist Group at the European Parliament (now called the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, PASD) is ready to conclude a technical agreement with the EPP Group on sharing the presidency of the Parliament and parliamentary committees, but it categorically refuses to agree, in exchange, that the European Parliament should vote in July on José Manuel Barroso's candidature at the head of the next European Commission. This is what...

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