 After the 2009 European election, members of the MER initiated the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a new political group in the European Parliament.The MER website stopped being updated in 2007 and, in June 2009, the British Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the MER's aims and activities would be folded into the new European Parliamentary group.MER's position was that the European Union should exist; however, it should be a looser supranational organisation than the current structure.