ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President and Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic will attend a regular working dinner of the presidency of the EPP-ED faction in the European Parliament and EPP members in the
European Commission, to be held in Brussels on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President and Croatian
Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic will attend a regular
working dinner of the presidency of the EPP-ED faction in the
European Parliament and EPP members in the European Commission, to
be held in Brussels on Tuesday. #L#
Tomcic will travel to Brussels at the invitation of Hans-Gert
Poettering, the chairman of the EPP-ED Group (the European People's
Party and European Democrats) in the European Parliament, read a
statement released by the HSS on Monday.
Besides Tomcic, other special guests from south-east Europe at the
dinner are a member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Presidency and head of
the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Sulejman Tihic, and the
leader of the G17 Plus party and vice-premier of the former Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, Miroljub Labus, the statement read.
The purpose of the dinner is to discuss the future development of
the region and its relations with the European Union as well as to
consider the intensifying of relations between countries in the
region in light of their bids to join the EU, according to the same
source.
European Commission President Romano Prodi and the commissioner
for foreign relations, Chris Patten, will attend the dinner on
behalf of the EC.
The EPP-ED Group, which gathers centrist parties, Christian
Democrats and people's parties, is the biggest faction in the
European Parliament.
The HSS, together with other two Croatian parties -- the Democratic
Centre (DC) and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) -- was given the
status of observers in the group at its 15the congress in Portugal
in October 2002.
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