Italian MEP Isabella Adinolfi is to join Christian-democrat European People’s Party (EPP) adding to the long list of lawmakers who have left the parliamentary delegation of the Italian anti-establishment party Five Star Movement.
Contacted by EURACTIV, Five Star sources confirmed that they are aware that Adinolfi is planning to leave the group and join the EPP. Adinolfi’s entourage has not replied yet to requests for more information.
Sources in the EPP told EURACTIV that three MEPs have requested to join the parliamentary group, including Adinolfi, and their admissions will be voted at the group plenary next Wednesday (28 April). The applicants need to get the majority of the group plenary votes to be accepted.
Twenty years ago, the EU thought that a patrician, former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, was best placed to chair discussions on its reform. For good measure, Giscard’s two vice-chairs were both former prime ministers.
After that it was also going to be hard to convince the public that the first Convention on the Future of Europe was not just an exercise in political elitism. The observation that the EU is a top-down bureaucracy has followed European integration like a bad smell.
It’s to EU leaders’ credit that the elitist approach has been scrapped. This time, participatory democracy via technology, it is hoped, will shape the Convention that will be formally launched on 9 May.
Hunt for the 2million unvaccinated Britons as Boris Johnson urges vulnerable people who are yet to receive jab to step up for the shot – amid warnings lockdown will stay in place even longer if large numbers remain unprotected
Government has made it its mission to inoculate 15million Brits most at risk of dying from the virus by Monday
Still a group numbering roughly twice the population of Birmingham who had yet to receive their first vaccine
Sir Patrick Vallance warned lockdown easing will go even slower if large numbers remained unvaccinated
Coronavirus: What s happening in Canada and around the world on Feb. 10
Canada s chief public health officer says national-level COVID-19 data is showing a continued downward trend in daily case numbers but noted the need for continued caution. This came on the same day Newfoundland and Labrador saw a record high of 53 new cases.
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A masked woman wearing heavy winter clothes carries a dog on Elgin Street in Ottawa on Tuesday. Canada s chief public health officer is urging continued vigilance against COVID-19 amid a continued downward trend in daily case numbers countrywide.(Andrew Lee/CBC )