| ‘Powerful Benefits’ In EU-US Trade Deal |
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“Powerful benefits,” will be gained from the European Union’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States (TTIP), said William E. Kennard, United States Ambassador to the European Union. “It’s early. We’re still in the honeymoon ...read more |
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| Strasbourg Seat 'An Insult To Taxpayer' |
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MEPs must be allowed to decide how the European Parliament should organise its own business. That's the message from a parliamentary hearing in Brussels organised by the EP's Constitutional Affairs Committee ...read more |
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| Catalan Bull Fight, Cutting CAP Funds |
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There are no sacred cows, in Catalunya at least. Spanish MEPs from the Catalan region have called for the European Commission to ensure that funds are not directed from the Common Agriculture Policy to benefit bullfighting in Spain...read more |
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| Anti-Terror Political Oversight Needed |
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Dutch Liberal MEP, Sophie In’t Veld, ALDE, said: “If we accept the principle that the mere request for secrecy by a third country to classify a document means it is secret, it is denying access to citizens, but also to MEPs, that is ridiculous. There is no political oversight ...read more |
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| Keller Seeks Justice For Dead Finn |
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It should have been different. Mexican, Betty Cariño and Finnish national Jyri Jaakkola were on their way to San Juan Copala, Mexico, with a humanitarian convoy supporting the Triqui when it was itself attacked. Cariño, and Jaakkola died in a hail of paramilitary bullets ...read more |
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| Europol Flouting Data Protection Rules |
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"The EU-US TFTP (Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme) agreement must be suspended," GUE/NGL MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides said Tuesday in the European Parliament following a debate on a report that highlights fundamental concerns in particular about EU ...read more |
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| DAB '13 Progress Sets Stage... |
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz stated: "This was a crucial meeting on budgetary matters and good progress was made. The EP wants to ensure that the EU's bills for 2013 can be paid. European citizens benefiting from programmes ...read more |
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| Rehn Predicts 'Slow Recovery' |
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Rehn reported that following the recession that marked 2012, the EU economy is expected to stabilise in the first half of 2013. GDP growth is projected to turn positive gradually in the second half of the year before gaining some traction in 2014 ...read more |
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| Tymoshenko - Ukraine's Rough Justice |
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"The ruling illustrates the selective and politically-motivated justice in Ukraine. The European Court of Human Rights found that Ms Tymoshenko's pre-trial detention had been arbitrary. Ukraine is still miles away from fulfilling European standards"...read more |
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| EU-US Trade "No Time To Waste" |
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Dutch Member of the European Parliament Marietje Schaake (D66/ALDE) and the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament has said "There is no time to waste" in negotiations between the EU and the US for a trade and investment treaty ...read more |
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| Lösing's Arms Report Shot Down |
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MEP Sabine Lösing's (GUE/NGL) own initiative report* on arms exports was shot down by right-wing MEPs in a Foreign Affairs committee vote. After rejecting a joint compromise from Socialists, Greens and Liberals and voting in favour of their own ...read more |
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| Serbia, Kosovo - Reforms Needed |
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Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo can make faster progress towards joining the EU by concentrating on good neighbourly relations and reforms, MEPs said in three separate resolutions approved by a show of hands on Thursday. Reforms in these countries must focus ...read more |
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| MEPs Test Fabius On Syria And Sahel |
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the foreign affairs committee on Thursday that: "The most radical elements are not in the majority now" in the Syrian resistance but warned that they could gain control "if the conflict carries on ...read more |
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| Turkey Must Renew Mutual Relations |
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Renewed mutual engagement is needed to maintain constructive relations in EU-Turkey relations in the context of the negotiation process, MEPs said. In a resolution on the 2012 progress report on Turkey, they call for opening of negotiations ...read more |
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| Liberal MEPS Kill Anti-Terror Deal |
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Terrorists, serious criminals and people traffickers could be much harder to track after a major counter-terror agreement, championed by the British Government, collapsed when Liberal Democrat and UKIP MEPs failed to turn up to the vote ...read more |
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| New Population Calculation Rules |
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A draft single set of rules to govern how EU member states collect and compile EU population data was approved by Parliament on Thursday. Consistent EU-wide data are needed inter alia to calculate qualified majority voting rights in the Council of Ministers and ...read more |
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| Human Rights, Vietnam, Kazakhstan... |
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Parliament debated three separate resolutions on calling for measures to enhance freedom of expression in Vietnam and to protect human rights in Kazakhstan and expressing concerns about the situation of hunger striking prisoners in Guantanamo ...read more |
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| Enforce Services Directive. Get Growth. |
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"Proper and coherent enforcement of existing rules is an effective way of creating growth fast, without spending taxpayers' money; and the good news is that this does not entail costs for Member States," said Anna Maria Corazza Bildt. MEP (EPP, SV) ...read more |
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| Unlocking Female Entrepreneurs |
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“If the UK matched US levels of female entrepreneurship, there would be 900,000 more businesses in the UK,” said Reding at the business initiative, hosted by MEPs Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg and Małgorzata Handzlik. It sent a clear message to the EP that existing European barriers need to be tackled...read more |
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| UK's Karim Hails EU Patent Boost |
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New inventions will soon be easier and cheaper to protect from copying thanks to proposals for a European Patent approved by MEPs in Strasbourg. The vote follows 30 years of wrangling over details, but the new measures have been welcomed by Sajjad Karim ...read more |
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| Parliament Forgets Price of Freedom |
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If it say’s ‘free’ it must be good, right ? Today, the European Parliament bought the argument that all free trade is good free trade. The insitution which awards the Sakharov Prize for human rights, sanitised the appalling human rights record of Colombia with a brazen dismissal of civil society concerns ...read more |
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| Excellence First In €80bn R&D Package |
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Excellence must be the focus as the European Union decides its funding in the field of research and innovation said Vicky Ford, Conservative MEP speaking as the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee voted through a research and innovation package ...read more |
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| The Honey Trap. Latin America & EU |
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Europe has set out a new trade deal for Latin America, honey-coated and wrapped in a bow. But is it a honey trap? Do the leaders of Latin American really know who they’re getting involved with? And if they do know; do they care? ...read more |
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| EBX Parliament Edition |
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Spain needs a new style of matador. Brave, shrewd, unbowed by sweltering heat and eye-watering dust. For six years, Spanish public TV was banned from broadcasting live bullfights. That noise. That was Hemingway, turning in his grave...read more |
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| Spain Needs A New Breed Of Matador |
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Spain needs a new style of matador. Brave, shrewd, unbowed by sweltering heat and eye-watering dust. For six years, Spanish public TV was banned from broadcasting live bullfights. That noise. That was Hemingway, turning in his grave '...read more |
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