Antonio Lopes: GERB won its place as a respected partner in the family of the European right parties

03/12/08

Delegation of 50 regional coordinators of PP GERB and MGERB from the whole country together with the chairman of the party Tsvetan Tsvetanov was on a visit in the European parliament in Brussels. The working visit in the European parliament was organized by the invitation of the members of the EP from PP GERB Rumyana Jeleva and Vladimir Urutchev. The delegation from GERB met the Secretary General of the EPP-ED group – Martin Kamp who informed them about the work of the parliament and the EPP-ED group. Mr. Kamp presented the main priorities of the Political manifesto of the parties of EPP.
The manifesto will be conclusively approved at the party congress in Warsaw in the beginning of the next year. Martin Kamp emphasized that the planned session of the Bureau of EPP-ED in the beginning of the next year in Sofia is a high evaluation for the successive policy of GERB and for the work of members of the EP from the party.
The chairman of PP GERB, the regional coordinators of the party and of the youth structures had a talk with the secretary general of EPP Antonio Lopes. At the meeting Lopes pointed out that GERB was no longer unknown party in the European right family and had won its place as a respected member with the last two elections, being a leading party. ‘The leader of the party Boyko Borisov is part of the decision making process at the highest level in Europe’, Lopes emphasized as he referred to Mr. Borisov participation in the summit meetings of EPP that take place before each session of the Council of the EU and where the position of the European right-wing on the agenda of the Council is discussed.
‘Your support is extremely important for Bulgaria and GERB’, the Chairman of GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov said at the meeting with both European politicians. He paid special attention on the opportunity that the European rights are a guarantee for conducting fair European and general elections in Bulgaria, in order that eventual speculations and trade of votes be escaped.
‘For 12 years the European right-wing has had the largest parliamentary group in the EP and we hope that by the support of GERB this will continue forward’ Kamp and Lopes pointed out at their meetings with the regional coordinators of PP GERB and MGERB. It was paid attention to the youth initiatives, which according to the European politicians were inspired by the charm and spirit of the young people and at the same time were a serious corrective of the government.
The meetings of the PP GERB delegation went on with the presence at the session of the Committee on Regional development, at which Rumiana Jeleva presented position about the Mid-term review of the 2007-2013 financial framework of the European Union; Mrs. Jeleva was a draftswoman about the subject.