Govt spox: 'We are the EPP'

"We are the European People's Party because we continue to represent the heritage of one-time German Chancellor Helmut Kohl," government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said in an interview published in Thursday's Magyar Hirlap. Kovacs said that similarly to the EPP's founders "we believe that the values of European Christian culture must be preserved and the aim is to have nation states cooperating with each other in the European Union." "It is certain that power relations will change in the European Parliament after the EP elections next May," he said.