Manfred Weber

The leaders of the two largest parties in the European Parliament,  Manfred Weber of the European Peoples Party (EPP), and Gianni Pitella of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (PASD) have issued a stark warning to Turkey that its accession process to the EU would be suspended, following the purges of the Erdogan regime against his opposition after the failed coup at

The European People's Party Group always supported Romania's accession to the Schengen Area, Chairman of the European People's Party Group of European Parliament Manfred Weber stated on Thursday in Bucharest.

“Political grandstanding” that equates refugees with terrorists only foments the hatred and disillusion that inspires those who join terrorist groups, argued many MEPs in Wednesday’s debate.

In a press release to Novinite, the chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, suggested five ways in which the European Council could show responsibility in addressing the refugee crisis.

Weber assured that his partly clearly distinguishes between people fleeing war, terror or political persecution and those who arrive to Europe in search of a better life .

“If Greece is incapable of protecting its own borders then the EU must be given the right to protect the country’s borders with concrete security forces and border surveillance”, was the eyebrow-raising comment by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday.

The Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras Greece received a ‘grilling’ during his presence at the European Parliament across the political board on Wednesday. One of his staunchest and harshest critics was conservative German MEP Manfred Weber, head of the People’s Party.

Greece and the referendum on the bail-out proposals were the focus of the July 7 plenary debate on the outgoing Latvian presidency of the Council. Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma also discussed the challenges and the achievements of the outgoing Council presidency with MEPs and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission

Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski and opposition leader Zoran Zaev made on Tuesday and Wednesday another attempt at solving the political crisis into which the country plunged earlier this year.

This time, talks were held in Strasbourg, with the EU's regional policy commissioner Johannes Hahn and MEPs Richard Howitt, Ivo Vaigl and Eduard Kukan acting as brokers.

Conservatives in the European Parliament want it to vote next week to condemn a right-wing party in Greece?s new leftist-led coalition government, comparing it to an EU rebuke to Austria 15 years ago.

The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the recognition of a Palestinian state "in principle" on Dec. 17, following a series of votes on the issue in EU nations that have enraged Israel.